Companies that have taken overhead as low as it can go but are still facing price pressure can look to improved field productivity to preserve profits.
How one remodeler's brush with bankruptcy in 2003 has helped his business weather the current economic downturn.
Keep in mind: Complexity, not size, is the determining factor when it comes to "small jobs."
Checkout lines may be shorter, but trips to the building materials store are still time wasted and money lost.
One of the best ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency is the lead carpenter system.
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Weekly job status meetings help keep jobs on time and on budget and identify problems before they get out of control.
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Construction fraud has worsened in the troubled economy. Here's what you can do to protect your company.
Get back to good estimating and job costing to offer accurate pricing on your jobs.
By tracking the actual and budgeted costs of individual line items for each job, Creative Contracting is able to easily pinpoint slippage.
When John Gemmi of Gemmi Construction, in Doylestown, Pa., started sharing each project's financial information with his four lead carpenters and helping them to understand their contribution to the bottom line, the leads began to actively participate in controlling costs and decreasing slippage.