Really Big Builds
Red tape. Years of stop-go. Money. More money. Plans. More plans. Commitments. Back-outs. These are the challenges the biggest of big civil projects around the country face. Finally, some are seeing the actual light…
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Well Equipped?
Capitalizing on the unprecedented flow of public funds into infrastructure work around the country, while faced with a severe shortage of labor and continued supply chain disruptions, requires contractors to be more agile than…
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Always In: Common Sense
Trends and their nifty sounding catch phrases have a way of sucking us in and spinning us around. Business will instantly be better if we adapt just this one magic strategy, right? Of course…
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Stuck In A Rut? Marketing Ideas
You already provide great customer service, smartly handle your social, just invested in a professionally designed website–all this and yet you still aren’t generating the new leads you want. Here are a few more…
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Continuous Improvement: Insights From Pros
Continuous improvement sounds leisurely, but requires hard work. So much so, that large construction companies often invest in dedicated continuous improvement specialists. Here are some of the responsibilities typically involved in the role. Are…
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Local Builds Funded By RAISE?
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has initiated the process for awarding a new round of transportation grants, totalling $1.5 billion, under the RAISE program, which stands for Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and…
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Onshoring Boom: Lucrative Opportunities
The drive to bring manufacturing back to the United States has pumped piles of money, public and private, into construction, and absent derailment due to labor challenges, the momentum is expected to continue, creating…
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IIJA?: How’s It Going?
It’s been two years since the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provided a five year allocation, totalling $1.2 trillion federal dollars, for long neglected projects. What’s been accomplished with the IIJA dollars so…
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Before The Shovel Hits The Dirt…
With disputes–and the cost of resolving them–rising, construction pros urge making an agreement about how to handle the project changes that will inevitably crop up before any work begins. Be careful though: contract lingo…
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