Telematics for Productivity

By Jenny Shiner In a culture that revolves around instant gratification, there is a higher expectation for efficiency than ever before. To ensure the maximum...

Seven Ways to Strengthen Your Communication Skills

To keep our more difficult, but essential, communication skills limber in an environment where quick and easy communicating is the norm, it’s important to...

Fighting Discrimination

Renee Conner knows what it means to be a woman in construction. As a kid, she went out to sites with her father and,...

In Good Standing

Now more than ever, running a successful business requires establishing and maintaining healthy credit. This is especially true in the highly competitive and unpredictable...

U.S. Economy Supply Chain

Resilient supply chain strategies are essential to deliver the long-term security, health, and economic prosperity that U.S. consumers expect. Surging demand, container shortages, port...

A Debt to be Paid: Employing our Veterans: Part 2

What has four decades as an employer taught me about hiring and managing veterans? That it’s the smartest move I can make in terms...

Payment Process

The pandemic took meeting in person to meeting virtually on Zoom, Webex, or Stream Yard. Activities that were once done physically were moved to...

Employee Ownership

Contractors using employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) as a business strategy are on the rise. Fifteen percent of all employee stock ownership plans are...

Eyes on Protection

The cost of building materials has skyrocketed almost 40 percent over the last four years. At the same time, vandalism and theft at construction...

Economic Pressures

As the global market continues to be pressured from recessions, increased supply chain complexity brought by geopolitical conflicts, material price increases and labor shortages,...