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Best Practices – Negotiations – How An Accusation Audit Can Help you Win a Negotiation and Why Cops Shouldn’t Use This Tactic on Little Old Ladies
It was obvious that the damage happened as a result of her hitting the curb. I then tried to ask her what happened and she just looked at me with bewilderment.
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Best Practices – Retainage – How Contractors are Avoiding Retainage and How it Hurts Owners.
This had the net effect of holding back the Contractor’s entire fee as a guarantee that they would complete the work.
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Best Practices – Contracts – Why You DON’T Want a Detailed Cost Break-down in Your Stipulated Sum Contract.
Be sure that when you move into contracting, you have a firm understanding of how your contract is structured.
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Industry Watch – Construction Safety – It Is Not The “Other Guy’s” Responsibility!
Everyone from Laborers to Architects have a fundamentally principle duty to ensure everyone on a construction site is safe.
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Industry Watch – Construction Materials – How Lumber Liquidators Gave America Cancer.
6 to 30 of every 100,000 customers who purchased the formaldehyde laden products from Lumber Liquidators are expected to develop cancer.
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Best Practices – Sourcing Suppliers – The Top 7 Places Where you Can Source Suppliers.
In this article, I share the top resources I use to ensure each of bid ends with at least three qualified bidders.
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Best Practices – Informal Quotations – How Informal Quotes Hurt You and What You Should be Aware of When You Request One.
If you must go down this path, be aware of how these shortcuts impact you.
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Commentary – Open-Plan Offices – How Office Environments Are Making Us Less Social and Why Architects Are to Blame.
Open-plan offices were never really about increasing collaboration they were more about saving cost on Real Estate.
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Industry Watch – Construction Technology – Sensor Technology – What is it? How is it Used?
The stories that led my friend astray on state of construction technology came from similar grand statements.
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