Build America Podcast

Cracks in construction provide information to a superintendent. We identify what you’re seeing and what it could mean in specific scenarios.

http://sjcivil.net/sjcc/cracks-in-construction/

What are the “necessities” for software and apps for your construction business? Here’s a look at what’s out there – software and/or apps that are in use by successful firms to accomplish necessary functions in your business.

What do I need? If you’re doing more than a million dollars in sales a year in heavy/civil construction, I’d say you need the following tools in your construction software toolbox...

http://sjcivil.net/sjcc/needed-software-for-a-contractor/

How many RFIs (requests for information) are too many on a construction project? Is it time, is it possible, to tie the number of RFIs on a job to the cost impact suffered by a contractor?

http://sjcivil.net/sjcc/is-one-rfi-one-too-many/

Time for any business is critical, perhaps more so in construction than many other industries. The role of time and its effect on a contractor are discussed here.

http://sjcivil.net/ceo-owner/if-cash-is-king-times-the-queen/

Discussed here, by a contractor, is arguably the #1 area of recommended improvement for infrastructure owners with fiduciary responsibility. The area in need of improvement: response time to construction issues.

In the construction industry, there are three main tools used for scheduling. Pros and cons of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and Primavera P6 are all briefly discussed. 

http://sjcivil.net/news/microsoft-excel-v-microsoft-project-v-primavera-p6/

Education of your staff or of your client can be effectively done using SJ Construction Consulting LLC’s (SJCC) Crew Cost Clicker. Don’t talk about the cost per hour of a crew, show it. Live. 

http://sjcivil.net/news/live-crew-cost-clicker/

Landing the work has enough challenges in meeting the scope, schedule, and cost requirements of the client. You’re defeating yourself if you can’t be polite and practice simple business etiquette.

If your client has been kind enough to consider doing business with you, don’t give him or her a reason to escort you out the door over something as simple as your behavior. Practice good business etiquette.

http://sjcivil.net/sjcc/top-10-basic-business-etiquette/

If you work for a public works construction contractor or you do construction management on public works jobs, Administration of Government Contracts by John Cibinic, Jr. and Ralph C. Nash, Jr. is the bible for governmental law. A very brief background from a construction professional, not a lawyer, is provided here on this key publication which should be on your bookshelf.

http://sjcivil.net/news/construction-law-bible/

A quick background on terms you hear every day in federal construction contracting: Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, and Buy American. 

http://sjcivil.net/law/davis-bacon-osha-jones-act-and-buy-american/