Avoid the Family Owned Business Blues

Managing a business is tough, but running a family owned construction contractor business is even tougher. Internal conflicts, family matters, business concerns, and ownership...

Forward Movement

Courtesy of Sunbelt Rentals Careers in the construction industry may involve hard hats and safety vests on a jobsite in the field, or they can...

Recycling Our Way to Better Roads

Everywhere we look today, recycling has moved from something we do when it is convenient to an everyday responsibility rooted in common sense. We...

Sheet Metal Solutions

Sheet metal is not just for gutters and metal roofs anymore. Metal can be fabricated into wall panel systems that can be used in...

Maintenance Practices

By Preston Ingalls Fleet equipment is usually the single most tremendous asset, outside of people, for construction companies. If operated and maintained efficiently, your fleet...

Paper Timesheets Cost You

It's Friday afternoon. Your project manager is hunched over a desk, squinting at a stack of handwritten timecards. One card is missing entirely. Another...

Management’s Guide to an Injury-Free Construction Site

It should come as no surprise that safety is a major concern for every construction company, large or small. Beyond the obvious impact on...

Critical Early Stages

The earliest stages of any project, including before and during site preparation, are critical to its ultimate success.  Preparing a site includes several integral steps,...

Are You a Boss or a Leader?

Success starts and stops with an organization’s leadership. And any business is as strong, or as weak, as the leader at the helm of...

Construction’s Future

By Kenny Ingram Making predictions that hold water even a year or two out is always difficult. So, I fully expected that predictions I had...