The Different Types of Drywall Drywall, also known as gypsum board, wallboard, and plasterboard, is gypsum plaster sandwiched between two thick sheets of paper. This popular interior wall finish began to replace plaster in the 1950’s due to easier installation and cost benefits. Today, drywall is the standard wall covering used in the United […]
Simple Time Saving Construction Tech Tips To Save Sub-Contractors Time And Money
Try These Construction Tech Tips To Save Sub-Contractors Time And Money Over the last ten years technology has made subcontractor’s lives a lot easier since they can now use smart phones, tablet, laptops and other wireless devices to manage their businesses on the go, instead of having to conduct day-to-day business tasks from their offices. […]
Green Construction – The Future of the Industry
What is Green Construction? The USGBC defines green construction as, “a holistic concept that starts with the understanding that the built environment can have profound effects, both positive and negative, on the natural environment, as well as the people who inhabit buildings every day.” So, what does this mean? In simple terms, green construction […]
The Top 6 Types of Risks in Construction Projects
Construction projects are very complex and can pose various internal and external risks. A strict set of codes, laws, and regulations must be followed during the construction process to best avoid these risks. Unfortunately, there is no way to completely avoid risks as there are bound to be unknown factors that arise over the course […]
How Digital Drawings in Construction are Affecting the Industry
How Digital Drawings in Construction are Affecting the Construction Industry As mobility and digitization continue to shatter the concept of the traditional “workplace,” mobile digitized blueprints, known as digital drawings, are becoming a necessity. It is clear that the digital age is bringing about technological change that has been disrupting the construction industry as a whole. 93% […]
Healthy tips for investing in your workforce
Healthy tips for investing in your workforce, so it pays your construction firm dividends. Construction is undeniably a labor-intensive sector, and as such, it is important to keep employee morale high in order to obtain optimal performance. It is no secret that construction sites are notoriously dangerous. On the jobsite there is a lot […]
Why adopting software in your business is becoming less of a choice, and more of a necessity
A survey from Software Advice, a company that helps construction software buyers find the right vendor(s), has offered insight into the preferences and pain points of prospective buyers who are thinking of adopting software systems in their construction business. The survey analyzed the responses of 250 participants to better understand what software features are […]
What is FLSA Overtime?
What is FLSA Overtime? The FLSA (Fair Labor Standard Act) provides the rules regarding overtime pay for employees, determining who is eligible for overtime pay and who is exempt. The FLSA describes overtime as working more than 40 hours in a workweek. If an employee who is considered “non-exempt” exceeds the 40-hour workweek, they are […]
Increasing Jobsite Safety for Women in Construction
Increasing Jobsite Safety for Women in Construction Approximately 872,000 women currently work in the construction industry, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Labor. Seventy-five percent of those women are in administrative, sales or management positions. This leaves 25 percent of women in the construction workforce exposed to the same daily […]
What Looking for Stuff is Costing Your Construction Company
For a mere 90 minutes a day, on average, of 50 employees “looking for stuff,” that annualizes to about 18,000 hours spent, by our workers, “looking for stuff.” You want to guess at one cost that just about every company in the construction industry experiences? Having employees who are spending hours a week “Looking […]
What Makes A Great Construction Project Manager?
Construction management is a great career for someone interested in building and design. Working as a construction manager allows you to learn construction from one end to the other – from the planning stage with architects and engineers to the budgeting stage with cost estimators, to the production stage with laborers. A good project manager […]
Construction Work Related Illnesses and How to Prevent Them
Being in good health is a concern for people in any industry, but labor-intense industries provide more health risks than others due to their harsh conditions and exposure to dangerous substances, including Construction Work Related Illnesses. Construction is among these risky industries that provide a high risk for many illnesses. Despite efforts to decrease the […]
Competing in the Age of Frugal Spending…
After the 2001 recession, caused by the Y2K scare, the U.S. consumer base greeted the strengthened economic state with spending spree. In comparison, today’s frugality among consumers, which began during our last recession, is outliving the recessionary period. This trend has created a slow economical trend, making it more and more difficult to compete within […]
(Cost of Undocumented Change Orders) Crawford Construction & General Contractors Inc. v. Kemp
Court case Crawford Construction & General Contractors Inc. v. Kemp, in an all to familiar scenario, the Crawford Construction built a $1.3 million home for the Kemps with all of the oral change orders and adjustments that the homeowners requested throughout construction. The original contract between the parties included a requirement that all change orders […]
(Change Orders) Problems & Solutions
Major disputes can arise in fixed-price contracts when subcontractors perform work on unwritten change orders, and both sides can lose big. Not having the change order in writing makes it hard to prove that the change is not a defect and even harder to get paid for the work. An owner who doesn’t receive a […]