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Contract Surety 02.08.2024

New Hires? Training Tips

  Lucky the owner behind a growing construction business that is not having trouble training and retaining a solid team of employees. Retirement of baby boomers, the tight labor market, and a plethora of civic…
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New Hires? Training Tips
Contract Surety 02.08.2024

What’s Old Is New: Innovation

What’s Old Is New: Innovation Although synthetic macrofibers have been available as alternatives to steel for several decades, the risks associated with innovating have kept builders away. However, the completion of several major projects in…
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What’s Old Is New: Innovation
Contract Surety 02.04.2024

Arbitration vs Litigation?

  In construction, successfully fulfilling all contractual obligations is often way easier said than done.  Before disputes over errors and omissions turn into costly and time consuming court battles, try arbitration. In addition to saving…
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Arbitration vs Litigation?
Contract Surety 02.04.2024

Supply Chains: Adapting To New Realities

  Supply chains might be improving, but the bigger reason stressing over material procurement has eased is likely that builders have gotten a whole lot better at “bobbing and weaving.” Creativity and collaboration are new…
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Supply Chains: Adapting To New Realities
Contract Surety 01.24.2024

Growth Path: Proposal Specialist?

  Clear goals, niche expertise, solid reputation, equipment upgrades, great workers, social media presence … .As a contractor, you can get all this right, and still find your business stagnating, unless you have the capacity…
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Growth Path: Proposal Specialist?
Contract Surety 01.24.2024

Really Big Builds

  Red tape. Years of stop-go. Money. More money. Plans. More plans. Commitments. Back-outs. These are the challenges the biggest of big civil projects around the country face. Finally, some are seeing the actual light…
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Really Big Builds
Contract Surety 01.17.2024

Well Equipped? 

  Capitalizing on the unprecedented flow of public funds into infrastructure work around the country, while faced with a severe shortage of labor and continued supply chain disruptions, requires contractors to be more agile than…
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Well Equipped? 
Contract Surety 01.17.2024

Always In: Common Sense

  Trends and their nifty sounding catch phrases have a way of sucking us in and spinning us around. Business will instantly be better if we adapt just this one magic strategy, right? Of course…
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Always In: Common Sense
Contract Surety 01.12.2024

Stuck In A Rut? Marketing Ideas

  You already provide great customer service, smartly handle your social, just invested in a professionally designed website–all this and yet you still aren’t generating the new leads you want. Here are a few more…
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Stuck In A Rut? Marketing Ideas