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  Lucky the owner behind a growing construction business that is not having trouble training and retaining a solid team of employees. Retirement of baby boomers, the tight labor market, and a plethora of civic…
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What’s Old Is New: Innovation Although synthetic macrofibers have been available as alternatives to steel for several decades, the risks associated with innovating have kept builders away. However, the completion of several major projects in…
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  In construction, successfully fulfilling all contractual obligations is often way easier said than done.  Before disputes over errors and omissions turn into costly and time consuming court battles, try arbitration. In addition to saving…
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  Supply chains might be improving, but the bigger reason stressing over material procurement has eased is likely that builders have gotten a whole lot better at “bobbing and weaving.” Creativity and collaboration are new…
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  Given the massive breadth of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, analysis has taken some time, but experts are starting to predict that the greatest potential impact on retirement outcomes will be derived by…
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  Pension Linked Emergency Savings Accounts, aka PLESAs, were made possible by a provision in the SECURE 2.0 Act, which became effective at the start of 2024. To help plan sponsors understand and correctly implement…
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  Fees, litigation and even criminal indictments are all possibilities for plan fiduciaries when the Department of Labor uncovers ERISA violations. Since civil penalty amounts are adjusted for inflation, the stakes are going up. Read…
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  The more every business (and person in it) uses technology, the bigger the “attack surface” for cybercrime becomes. Last year’s massive MOVEit data breach, compromising data at over 600 businesses, sounded an alarm: whether…
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  Clear goals, niche expertise, solid reputation, equipment upgrades, great workers, social media presence … .As a contractor, you can get all this right, and still find your business stagnating, unless you have the capacity…
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