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  • Awesome ASA at 60

    Awesome ASA at 600

    Sixty Years of Building a Stronger Voice for Subcontractors When the American Subcontractors Association was formed in 1966, its founders were responding to problems that will sound familiar to many subcontractors today: slow payment, bid shopping, unreasonable subcontract terms and the financial strain created when money is withheld. The D.C. Metropolitan Subcontractors Association and the

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  • Contractor Community – September 2026

    Contractor Community – September 20260

    Every specialty contractor has to deal with multiple prequalifications  and the demands this process places on time, resources and in many cases now, the hard cost associated with it, makes prequalification not only tedious, but expensive. ASA’s team has compiled three documents to assist the coordination between CGs and subs. They can be accessed for

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  • Insured, and Still Broke

    Insured, and Still Broke0

    By Chris Cordon Most people believe health insurance is the thing that protects them from financial ruin. Then they read the fine print the hard way. The most-cited study of medical bankruptcy in this country found that nearly 8 in 10 of the people it wiped out had health insurance when they got sick. (American

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  • Where Everybody Knows Your Name

    Where Everybody Knows Your Name0

    Examining a master class in customer service in a hard bid world By Gregg Schoppman, FMI Corp. I fly a great deal. That isn’t bragging as anyone who has ever travelled in a Post 9-11, Post COVID world knows, air travel isn’t quite the pleasure cruise it once was. That being said, there was recently

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