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Collections: Get Paid for Your Work
If there’s anything worse than not being able to land a construction project, it’s getting the job, performing admirable work, and then not getting paid. Cash flow issues are perhaps the single...
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Preparing For An OSHA Inspection
Perhaps even more than a 60 Minutes camera crew or the Internal Revenue Service, a visit from an OSHA inspector can strike terror in the heart of a construction project manager. Like Morley Safer and...
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Workplace Harassment
The image is as iconic as it is stereotypical: an attractive, usually short-skirted lady walks past a construction site. The pounding of hammers and whining of circular saws suddenly stop, replaced by...
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The Importance of Improving Our Infrastructure
It is rare that groups as diverse as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO agree on an issue. It is even rarer when conservatives such as Paul Ryan, one of my heroes, advocate spending billions...
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Construction Outlook: Up, Down or Flat?
In seeming tribute to the blockbuster Avengers movie, the U.S. construction economy continues to perform its impersonation of Dr. David Banner. One day a new study or government report predicts...
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Health Care Reform
Like many businesses and business advocates, the majority of the construction industry opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act recently found by Supreme Court to be constitutional. Most...
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Salting
With all the turmoil the construction profession has experienced over the last five years, one might expect organized labor to have put aside its organizing agenda for the good of the industry. One...
View ArticleFuture of Green
The green construction trend has reached a crossroads, and its future as a viable business model hinges – like all innovations in a free market society – on its profitability. There’s no doubt the...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook for 2013
The construction industry is still driving precariously close to the edge with few guardrails to deter a plunge. But construction, like the rest of the economy, has avoided the fiscal cliff and despite...
View ArticleSoaring Demand for Flexible Workforce
If you’ve spent any amount of time trying to recruit employees for construction and green energy projects, you know that the demand for skilled labor is at record highs. What has become apparent this...
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