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Designing Your Business the Way You Would a Building 0
- Best Practices, Improving Productivity
- April 23, 2024
By Chad Prinkey, Well Built Construction Consulting Imagine sitting down to design a building. First, you’d ask yourself what function that building had to perform. Once you knew the building’s purpose, you’d determine a budget, draw up plans, select materials, and specify them in the design. What you wouldn’t do is look around your yard
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Stop the Hand-Off!0
- Best Practices, Improving Productivity, Insurance
- April 23, 2024
Attacking the Misnomers of Preconstruction Strategy By Gregg Schoppman, Gregg.schoppman@fmicorp.com If you have ever called your pre-construction planning process a “dump meeting”, hand-off or turnover, please stop! The imagery of most pre-construction planning processes looks like it is setting the world speed record for paper shuffling. “Here are the plans, specifications, submittals, contact list, map
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President’s Letter – April 2024 0
- ASA President's Letter, President's Letter
- April 23, 2024
Dear Readers: As I start this letter, the containers are now coming off the ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the largest crane on the East coast is bringing up bridge sections from underwater. A couple of paths have been cleared so boats can travel again and they expect
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A Compelling Case for Construction Craft Training: The Return on Investment Is Real 0
- Best Practices, EDUCATION, Improving Productivity, Workforce & Professional Development
- April 23, 2024
By Matthew Clark, NCCER As a workforce development manager at the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), I am dedicated to advancing the construction industry through effective education and training programs. With nearly 50 years in the construction industry as a craft professional and workforce development professional, I am convinced that investment in
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Ready to Respond? Contractors’ Best Practices for Performance Bond Claim Preparedness 0
- Claims, Insurance, Risk Management
- April 23, 2024
By Gina Lockwood, Esq., Merchants Bonding The frequency and severity of claims ebbs and flows, dependent on a variety of economic influences. But whether claims are on the rise or on the decline, contractors should always understand a surety’s claims process, and have the right practices in place to mitigate potential impacts of a claim.
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MTA Personnel Save Lives With Quick Actions in Key Bridge Tragedy 0
- Best Practices, CONSTRUCTION, Leadership
- April 23, 2024
MTA Personnel Save Lives With Quick Actions in Key Bridge Tragedy By Mike Kline, ASA Communications In the movies, the heroes often swoop in to save the day with mere seconds to spare before disaster strikes. Seconds also count in real life. In the case of the Key Bridge collapse on March 26th, the quick
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