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How Can You Achieve End-to-End Inventory Transparency in Construction
Construction Inventory Management
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How Can You Achieve End-to-End Inventory Transparency in Construction?

Perhaps, you are now facing a lot of stressors related to your construction business, especially in your supply chain. With the added strains from the uncertainties and continuous market swings, your company should now find ways to adapt and minimize operating costs to stay profitable. Construction inventory management is one area where your construction company

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Five Strategies on How to Stay on Top of Your Project and Ensure a Smooth Construction Progress
Construction Management
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Five Strategies on How to Stay on Top of Your Project and Ensure a Smooth Construction Progress

Whether you are new in construction or an experienced project manager with years of extensive experience up your sleeve, you know that staying on top of everything going on with your project progress is critical to finishing your projects. Delivering your projects on schedule and within budget while maintaining a high-quality standard is a challenging

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People and Risks Involved in 6 Phases of Construction Management
Construction Management
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People and Risks Involved in 6 Phases of Construction Management

Nothing great happens overnight, especially in managing construction projects. In a line of work where there are many moving parts, every activity requires meticulous construction management planning and proper oversight. But instead of taking on a project head-on as one big undertaking, it’s more realistic and manageable to subdivide it into segments of phases, and

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How Can Construction Companies Boost Employee Retention
Construction Management
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How Can Construction Companies Boost Employee Retention and Reduce Employee Turnover?

Nowadays, the construction industry is facing a severe labor shortage. It is no secret that many contractors struggle to retain employees, regardless of how many projects they undertake or how much profit they make. Employees are a company’s most significant resource; without them, internal operations may be slowed or even halted. If you are losing

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How Last Planner System Can Help You Build a Collaborative Construction Planning Process
Construction Management
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How Last Planner System Can Help You Build a Collaborative Construction Planning Process

Who is more likely to accurately estimate how long the electrical on a construction project will take: the electrician or a construction manager? It seems evident that the electrician would have a better insight into how long the job would get done. Nevertheless, traditional construction management techniques significantly ignore the electrician’s opinion. This is what

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Moving from Manual Processes to Construction Project Management Tool
Construction Technology
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Moving from Manual Processes to Construction Project Management Tool

As a contractor who handles tons of projects and runs field teams, you agree that manual project management and field service is somehow inefficient. The time lost in allocating tickets, planning routes, maintenance schedules, and other construction activities can cost actual revenue. So, for people like you who are most likely running a big construction

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The Basics of Construction Scheduling Management
Construction Management
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The Basics of Construction Scheduling Management

When construction projects are delayed, over budget, or poor quality, it can directly influence your company’s success, profitability, and growth. Unexpected hazards and bottlenecks are common in the construction industry, and admittedly, some of these circumstances are beyond anyone’s control. This is where construction scheduling management comes into play. Every business should make developing an

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Why Inspections Should Be Conducted During Construction
Construction Management
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Why Inspections Should Be Conducted During Construction?

Construction inspections are typically conducted in the ending part of any construction schedule— on the project handover or closeout period. For some professionals in the industry, this activity is seen as the ‘necessary evil’ since it is another task to tick off the long list of a to-do to ensure regulatory compliance. Even though intended

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Five Strategies for Strengthening Your Construction Planning Process
Construction Management
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Five Strategies for Strengthening Your Construction Planning Process

Regardless of its industry, any project is most likely to fail if no efficient and effective project plan or schedule is defined during its early stages. Planning and scheduling in construction play a significant role in making or breaking your project’s success. Essentially, a construction plan guides the clients, project managers, and contractors throughout the

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4 Questions That You Must Answer Before the Kick-Off of a Construction Project
Construction Management
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4 Questions That You Must Answer Before the Kick-Off of a Construction Project

Many construction managers who work on projects involving a lot of task repetitions agree that they have spent half of their time on admin-heavy tasks linked to planning. While their main focus is to manage construction projects according to the agreed timeline and budget, this is not possible without going through countless phone calls, email

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10 Construction Reports That Every Project Manager Should Know
Construction Management
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10 Construction Reports That Every Project Manager Should Know

Managing construction projects can start as seamless and organized at first, but it can quickly become a pretty chaotic scene. The construction industry is prone to delays and roadblocks – from inclement weather and delivery delays to labor shortage, document mismanagement, and miscommunication. One of the project manager’s most critical responsibilities is to stay on

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8 Ways to Effectively Monitor Multi-Location Construction Projects
Construction Management
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8 Ways to Effectively Monitor Multi-Location Construction Projects

From start to execution, managing construction projects include a range of factors to consider. Consequently, monitoring multi-location projects is a multi-faceted task involving many people and moving parts. When managing projects at multiple locations at once, the list of micro tasks to complete significantly increases, which might often turn into a terrible managerial nightmare even

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How to Place Planning at the Core of Your Construction Projects
Construction Management
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How to Place Planning at the Core of Your Construction Projects

Planning is the very heart of every construction project. However, the master schedule does not reflect the reality onsite in many instances. As the project manager, you must bring your project plan to life by ensuring team collaboration and communication are moved in a real-time dynamic environment. Doing so, the construction schedule gets updated with

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The Construction Punch List Closeout
Construction Management
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The Construction Punch List Closeout: A Guide to A Successful Project Turnover

Managing construction projects can feel like all those intricate tasks, activities, and monitoring never end. It is a well-known fact that these projects have a million moving parts that need to be strictly monitored and managed – from inventory, scheduling, tasks, and crew, it is no secret that the industry is prone to delays. New

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