Contractor's Business Management Report

Contractor's Business Management Report delivers practical, relevant, and insightful business management guidance to contractors, subcontractors and their consultants each month.

Typical coverage includes analyses and updates on relevant topics directly affecting your day-to -day construction business, including: controlling costs; remaining in compliance with regulatory (including tax and accounting) changes; reviewing and addressing insurance and risk- management issues; handling contract and legal issues (including liens and enforcement actions); addressing OSHA-related safety and inspection practices; preparing for BIM and other developing technologies; and, handling immigration and other labor-related issues.

CBMR covers all the top industry association events, including AGC, IRMI, CFMA and Vendome Group-sponsored conferences, and reports on the top, hot-button issues and challenges that contractors, subcontractors and their consultants face on a day-to-day basis. Newsletter content is synthesized and presented in an easy-to-use, easy-to-digest format.

March 2010 - Table of Contents

CBMR March 2010 (Full PDF Issue)

Can �Lean Construction� Improve Your Bottom Line?

By Robert J. Miletsky "Lean construction" offers contractors the ability to increase productivity, complete work quicker, reduce overtime, lower material handling costs, and overall "reduce waste."

The Legal Spot: Are Fictitious Payees Burning a Hole in Your Checkbook?

By Robert J. Miletsky, Esq. "Known as the ‘fictitious payee’ or ‘padded payroll’ rule, UCC 3-405(1)(c) provides that an ‘endorsement by any person in the name of a named payee is effective if an agent or employee of the maker or drawer has supplied him with the name of the payee intending the latter to have no such interest.’

Project Closeout: What to Do When the Manufacturer Warranties Differ From What the Specifications Require

By Scott J. Miller You’re at the conclusion of the project.

Negotiating Skills: Is Getting What You Want Eluding You?

By Cassandra Dillenberger As contractors, we regularly negotiate for everything from contract language to equipment rentals.

CBMR Calendar (March 2010)

World of Modular, Orlando, Fla., March 6-8. Contact:

Coming to future issues of Contractor�s Business Management Report

Strategies for Recovering Money From Troubled or Insolvent Owners

CBMR News Briefs (March 2010)

DISPUTE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES ON BUY-AMERICAN PROVISIONS RESOLVED Bloomberg News reports that a year-long dispute between the United States and Canada over "Buy American" rules in the Obama administration’s stimulus package has been settled.

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