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.
We know you have heard of BIM. But what exactly is it and why is it relevant to you? “Building information modeling” is not a software product but an approach to designing and building.
What is your strategy for recruiting leadership for your company? Do you have personnel who have the skills, knowledge, and ability to take over senior management? The recruitment of high-potentials was covered at the recent AGC (www.agc.org) annual convention in Las Vegas. CBMR attended the seminar “Developing Future Talent” given by Robert Andrews of FMI Inc. (www.fminet.com). The discussion at the seminar focused on the means and methods for attracting and maintaining leadership talent for construction companies.
There is a pretty useful clause that has helped me out on a number of projects recently, so I wanted to pass it on to you. The beauty of it is that the undisputed-amounts-and-suspension-of-work clause seems so harmless—at least until circumstances crop up for its use and owners (or other upper-tiers) see how potent the clause can be. In addition, when you are confronted by the typical onerous contract being offered by an upper-tier, this clause is pretty middle-of-the-road and, therefore, should not be very offensive to the upper-tier.
It’s no secret that alcohol and drugs are problems for contractors, and the dangers they pose on a construction site are monumental. We recently saw a fatal accident at a highway overpass construction site, where an employee plummeted to his death after becoming inebriated at the end of his workday.
Haven’t we all seen some part of The Godfather more than 50 times? I know that I have, and I still don’t understand exactly what is going on or who all of the characters are. Still, The Godfather is a wonderful source of advice that I’ve used in my business and that may be useful to you, as well.
Michigan Supreme Court Clarifies ‘Common-Work-Area Doctrine’
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in Latham v. Barton Marlow Co. that the common-work-area doctrine does not impose a duty on general contractors for hazards that are part of the "unavoidable, perilous nature of the site itself."
The court stated, "The danger for which a duty attaches is an avoidable danger to which a significant number of workers are exposed, such as … failure to have fall protection devices to protect…
What Is a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA? How to Handle Hazardous Materials What’s Hot and New from the CFMA Conference Modular Building Going Mainstream?…
American Industrial Hygiene Association, Ergonomics Symposium, Minneapolis, June 1. Contact: www.aiha.org
Western States Roofing Contractor’s Association, Western Roofing Expo 2008, Las Vegas, June 8-11. Contact: www.wsrca.org
New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Summer Institute in Construction Project Management, New York City, June 16-20. Contact: www.scps.nyu.edu
Pratt Institute, Estimating Structural Steel Fabrication, New York City, June 14. Contact: www.pratt.edu …
While we may not be able to agree on national or regional immigration policies, we can agree on a few things relating to immigration:
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