U.S. Businesses Not Prepared for Aging Workforce

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Woman-Owned Construction Businesses

EC&M Magazine recently ran an article called No Man's Land that highlighed some of the opportunities and challenges of being a WBE (Women's Business Enterprise).... Read More

How to Give Great Media Interviews

Love them or hate them, you know you need to have your message in the media. Here are some simple things you must do in order to give a great media interview.... Read More

Balfour Makes Room for Centex

U.K.-based Balfour Beatty plc., London, has confirmed plans to close its civil engineering business in Pennsylvania and Ohio as contracts end over the next two years.... Read More

Immigrant Workers Under Fire Despite Construction Needs

Despite construction’s desperate need for workers, state laws increasingly are targeting immigrant labor.... Read More

Unions Gearing Up for Gulf Rebuilding

While much of the Gulf Coast region remains in ruins following the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, area construction unions are gearing up for an active collective-bargaining season.... Read More

Squeezing the CM Is Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

Listeners to WQXR, the radio station of the New York Times, have long been subjected to the voice of discount retailer Sy Syms, saying, "An educated consumer is our best customer."... Read More

Wikis

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What do I get?

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The Winning Thought Process #2

I just finished reading Losing My Virginity - by Richard Branson again. It is a very good book and makes you realize more than anything that if you simply have the right mindset you can achieve anything. Richard Branson lived on the edge of constant failure for more than 20 years while building the Virgin Group which was basically started on a payphone and some free shop space in a not-so-great area of town for the first Virgin music store. Someone noticed me reading it the other day and... Read More

Use the First 30 Minutes of Your Day to Succeed All Day

One of the ways that top-performing salespeople separate themselves from others is by effectively using the first 30 minutes of the day.... Read More

Escalation Eases but Costs Remain High

The overall U.S. construction market is starting to defuse three years of explosive materials price escalation.... Read More

First Quarterly Cost Report 2007

ENR's Q1 2007 cost report is a package of news, analysis and data. The report contains stories about inflation which reached a high tide mark in 2006. Although it now is starting to ebb, many materials prices remain stranded at the high water mark.... Read More

Acquisition by Quanta Followed Exit of Key Infrasource Investor

The exit of Infrasource Inc.'s private equity investor last year planted the seeds of the March 19th announcement of Quanta Services Inc.’s acquisition of Infrasource, an all-stock transaction valued at $1.26 billion.... Read More

Licenses, Degrees and Certifications -- What Do They Really Mean?

I can't even begin to identify the number of licensees, degree designations, and certifications that are out there in the industry.... Read More

Risk vs. Reward

Today's successful building industry executives rely on people, processes and research to minimize the risk of making a mistake.... Read More

Lean Works in Construction – Salt Lake CIty, UT

Start: Apr 27 2007 - 1:00pm End: Apr 27 2007 - 5:00pm April 25, 2007 – Lean Works in Construction – Salt Lake City, UT Sponsor: Utah Sheet Metal Contractors Association Contact James Paull at (801) 486-8449.... Read More

Marketing Planning and Strategy

In this tutorial we examine the importance of marketing planning with emphasis on the role marketing strategy plays in the planning process. This part...... Read More

Argument That Party Enforcing Liquidated Damages Clause Must Present Evidence Of Actual Damages Is All Wet

It is well established in North Carolina that liquidated damages clauses that are not a penalty and are reasonable in amount are enforceable. This is so even if no actual damages are suffered. What was not established in North Carolina is which party has the burden to prove such a clause is enforceable.In a case of first impression, Seven Seventeen HB Charlotte Corporation v. Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, Inc. (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. 07-07-0325) answers this question. In Seven Seventeen, hosts of an annual high school all-star... Read More

The Key to Keeping Learners Interested

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Science Daily Week: Which is more effective: bonuses or raises?

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Report: Retiring Baby Boomers Expected to Hurt U.S. Companies

Many are not prepared for the loss of experienced workers that will occur over the next decade.... Read More

Make strategy meetings shorter, but more productive

Most of us are tired of wasting time at unfocused meetings, especially when they are supposed to be about strategy. So here are three simple rules to keep meetings moving and on target.... Read More

Professional Presentation Pointers: Part One

I cannot think of a better way to increase your status in your job, business or industry than becoming a skilled speaker. Standing (or sometimes sitting) in front of a group and presenting is a frightening prospect for people ranging from corporate beginners to CEOs. There is good reason for this.... Read More

Beazer Homes cooperating with probe (Reuters)

Reuters - Beazer Homes USA Inc. , the sixth-largest U.S. homebuilder, on Wednesday said it is cooperating with federal prosecutors in a probe relating to its mortgage business.... Read More

The New Rules of Networking

You realize you don’t know the first thing about networking after you talk with Networker Extraordinare, Laura Levitan. Laura is the sort of person who has 16,000…yes you heard it right…16,000 contacts in her Microsoft Outlook and keeps in regular...... Read More

So How Do You Actually Use Your Cellphone?

In the past few years cell phone manufacturers have dazzled us with an amazing array of features. Basic games and simple text messaging are now passé. Cameras were once considered a big deal. Now, the latest models come with music...... Read More

Netflix's Autonomous Workforce

Hey bosses, Are you having trouble recruiting and retaining top-notch talent? Maybe you're not giving your employees enough autonomy. Employees at online movie retailer Netflix are allowed to take as much vacation time as they want--on the clock, reports the...... Read More

Merging Your Online and Offline Marketing Strategies

Is it time for you and your company to reevaluate your marketing programs and integrate your online and offline activities?... Read More

NECA's Manual of Labor Units goes digital through Trade Service

For over 80 years, the Manual of Labor Units (MLU) published by Bethesda, Md.-based National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) has been the industry standard for electrical construction estimators and project managers... Read More

Womble Construction Blog recognized by ENR.com

Engineering News-Record, a well known construction industry publication, recently recognized Womble Carlyle's Construction Industry Blog as an invaluable online source of information for those interested in the legal aspects of the industry. See the complete story here.... Read More

Electronic Signatures

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The Secret to Reinventing Yourself

How do you leverage the things you’ve done in the past for what you want to do in the future? A friend and world class entrepreneur, Michael Drapkin, raised that question to me recently when we were talking about reinventing yourself. Drapkin, over his 30-plus-year career, has been a classical musician, programmer, program manager, academic, technology consultant, CEO and business strategist. You know the sort: A polymath that’s good at so many things. More than that, though, Michael knows the secret to career change and self-reinvention. It’s that reinventing... Read More

Digging it out of the ground

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Fine-Tune Your Marketing Plan

Doug Dwyer makes a multitude of great points in his February column called Fine-Tune Your Marketing Plan. Of particular interest is how he describes marketing as being integral to every part of the company, not just a collection of advertisements and sales collatoral. Contractors as a whole do a very poor job of marketing and that causes many to leave hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit on the table each and every year.... Read More

Generation Why

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Today’s Women Workers : Shut Out of Yesterday’s Unemployment Insurance System

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California Beaming

2007 Commercial Contractor of the Year A.O. Reed & Company San Diego, CA... Read More

Cash Flow - Keep Water Out of Your Ship - Podcast

Hear the beginning of our article on Cash Flow in Construction. Download file Email us at clientservices@stevensci.com for the remainder of the article. Limit 1 article per month. We will send it to you in three working days. Order our book published by McGraw - Hill, Managing a Construction Firm on Just 24 Hours a Day by going to stevensci.com... Read More

"Design-Build Lite" May Lead to Trimmer Project Budgets