Material Pricing Inflation & Uncertainty: How Contractors & Subs Can Better Manage the Bottom Line
Contractors and subcontractors face an increasingly difficult challenge: skyrocketing inflation is bleeding their bottom lines. General inflation is raising the cost of everything, from food to fuel to office supplies, maintenance, and rent. Inflation and economic...
Projects are Short Term Investments in Long Term Assets
For over 40 years, I have been involved in the project planning, design, and construction of facilities and infrastructure, including stadiums, roads, factories, utilities, schools, hospitals, and even a water park or two. I’ve worked on projects for cities and...
Modern Building Codes Could Prevent $1.6 Billion in Natural Disaster Damages Annually
Each year, buildings across the United States suffer more than $100 billion in damage from earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, and wind, according to the National Institute of Building Sciences. The pace of major events causing $1 billion or more in damage has...
Trimble Viewpoint’s Q1 and Q2 Construction Metrics Index Show Wide Variability in 2022
Trimble Viewpoint recently released its latest Q2 2022 Quarterly Construction Metrics Index, which provides trends related to project starts, hiring, contract values, and cash flow metrics pulled from roughly 1,000 Viewpoint clients during the second quarter of 2022....[curt_ad orientation=”vertical” location=”side”]