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“I’ve been using Bobcat equipment for years on my farm in Waco, and I can’t imagine working without it. My Bobcat machines have empowered me to bring some of my biggest ideas to life,” said Gaines.

Bobcat Hires Magnolia Co-founder Gaines

From tending gardens to managing goats, pigs, and horses, Gaines is already sharing the work he is accomplishing with his Bobcat equipment.

For more than 25 years, Women in Construction Week has celebrated and promoted the role of women in the construction industry.

Women in Construction Week: The Women Behind the First Real-Life LEGO Building

About 10 percent of construction jobs are held by women. For more than 25 years, Women in Construction Week has celebrated and promoted the role of women in the construction industry.

Schaeffler is developing high-performance e-motors for commercial vehicles. Electrified drives will account for an increasingly large share of the powertrain mix in this segment in the future.

Schaeffler Announces Ohio E-vehicle Manufacturing Facility

Schaeffler recently completed an expansion in Wooster of almost 90,000 square feet to produce electric motors and components for electric powertrain systems.

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Job Costing: What, Why, and How

Job Costing is an important tool in evaluating your business performance. Without job costing, it’s difficult to understand where you’re making your money. You could be making a significant profit on certain types of projects and losing money on others.

The report provides five specific strategies for how businesses can adapt to these new construction labor dynamics.

Construction Labor Report Discusses Constricted Labor Pool

This report analyzes how the labor force has shifted since the pandemic and provides practical strategies for how organizations can adapt.

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Forming the Alliance for Naloxone Safety In The Workplace

In response to the rising rate of both fatal and non-fatal overdoses attributable to opioids, the story behind forming The Alliance for Naloxone Safety In The Workplace and how it's changing the face of the construction site workplace as we know it.

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How Juggling Expectations Shows Professionalism On The Job

Estimating and project management don’t need to be difficult, but they often can be.

Opioids and Overdose Deaths In The Construction Industry: A Call to Action

Opioids & Overdose Deaths In The Construction Industry: A Call to Action

Addressing the opioid and overdose crisis requires straight talk to acknowledge that there is a problem. Stigma associated with substance misuse creates barriers to care-seeking for addiction treatment and recovery. Let's talk about it.

Opioids in Construction Series From Cal Beyer

Content Warning: A Series On Opioids In Construction

ForConstructionPros.com invited Cal Beyer to author a series of articles exploring how and why the opioid crisis impacts the construction industry.

The market for used equipment is vibrant, and a significant majority of transactions happen without lien-related complications.

Navigating Used Equipment Purchases: A Closer Look at Hidden Liens

While most used equipment purchases go off without issue, there is a circumstance that buyers should be aware of, and that’s whether the used equipment in question has a hidden lien on it.

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Cashing In During the Asphalt “Off Season”

November 14, 2023

In recent years the need for wintertime asphalt work for municipalities, utility contractors, and commercial customers trying to “get by” until the spring has skyrocketed. This FREE WEBINAR will teach you everything you need to know.

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Create an Accounting Structure to Take Your Business to the Next Level

Understanding your business’ financial performance is critical to long-term sustainability and success. However, if you don’t have the right structure in place for capturing your financial data, you may not be able to get the information you need.

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Building A Business, Not A Side Hustle

Modern work culture sometimes promotes the idea of a side-hustle as something everyone should have, but for the team behind National Pavement Partners the goal is building a lasting business, and it's been that way from the beginning.

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How Your Environmental Footprint Affects Your Pavement Business

How can we handle and get a grasp of the environmental impact of what happens in our everyday lives – and in our business?

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Your Trailers are an Essential Piece of Equipment

Why – and how – to become a trailer maintenance master!

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Influencing Field Production Through Greater Clarity

In this article, the first of a four-part series, we will address how being clear in our communications as field leaders is critical to influence the actual production we want to achieve.

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Customer Education is Key to Growing Your Business with Infrared Technology

You can greatly expand your opportunities and margins with infrared asphalt repair, but you need to be ready to answer customer questions and demonstrate its advantages.

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Setting Up Your IT Infrastructure Keeps Your Business Organized

It’s important that you don’t get bogged down because you’re unorganized. Organization starts with your IT infrastructure.

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How to Develop an Organizational Structure That Scales with Your Growth

A strong organizational structure is important for any business from the very beginning. You may be starting out on your own or with very few team members. You should build out your organizational structure in a way that will scale with your business.

Staying on top of monthly cash flow reports and projections will take a construction business far in 2023.

Keep Cash Flow Reports, Projections Current in 2023

If you do not have the time to update financials monthly, outsource the process to a consultant.

Buying a unit and financing it works if you have used units to trade-in or sell off to apply the proceeds to the purchase. It also helps if business is strong and generating taxable profits that you would like to avoid.

Consider the Construction Equipment Financing Options Available

There are contractors and rental companies needing to upgrade their fleets with either new or late model used equipment. Many of you reading this are probably in this situation; figuring out what you may need, what you can sell off or trade-in, etc.

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Ways to Improve Construction Workforce Productivity in 2023

No matter what size your company is, you have to assume competitors are looking for ways to improve productivity and leaving you in the dust.

If total sales increased by 20%, then expect the Sales Per Employee number to increase by that same percentage.

Calculate the Productivity of Your Construction Business

How are your productivity stats standing up to the test of time?

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Max Cash From Your Operation

Cash is king, but more cash is even better.

There are few companies that have an organized education program for this very critical level of the company. Few business owners and senior leaders take an active role in the development of their own leaders.

5 Steps to Improving Leadership Skills among Mid-level and Senior Leaders

How to lead your leaders to minimize the risk of having poorly developed leaders who are incapable of achieving more profitable results.

Using Technology to Achieve Workforce Diversity in Construction

Hosted by ForConstructionPros.com technology editor Charles Rathmann, this inaugural episode of the HR Punchlist Podcast focuses on workforce diversity in construction.

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Overcoming Time Wasters at the Job Site

Consider these techniques that you can integrate into your own approach to maximizing the amount of time spent by workers working.

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What to Say When Your Customer Says 'Your Price is Too High'

When a customer responds with, “Your bid is too high,” try the following response; remember to be respectful.

Initiative Helps Engineering & Construction Industries Restart Projects Stopped by COVID-19

Project Slowdown/Restart planning initiative is designed to help engineering and construction industries restart projects stopped by the pandemic.

It takes a team to complete a job and you need everyone on the job to work together.

10 Simple Tips for New Managers

Build your skills as a supervisor and prepare yourself for future leadership responsibilities with these tips.

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10 Marketing Tips that Drive Sales

Follow this 10-point marketing plan to generate new business and encourage repeat sales.

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A Sales Compensation Plan that Supercharges Profits

The single most powerful trick for supercharging your bottom line.

10 Tips to Fast-track Your Leaders

There is a commitment you must make as a contractor or senior leader in your efforts to bring along a new leader as fast as you can.