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Contract Surety 03.28.2024

Manufacturing Construction: Batteries!

  Manufacturing construction remains strong. Interestingly, for example, though current demand for electrical vehicles lags, construction of the manufacturing plants needed to produce the batteries is hopping. Analysts say it’s all about taking the long…
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Manufacturing Construction: Batteries!
Contract Surety 03.28.2024

Office Building Conversions

  Vacant office buildings became a thing–fast–during the height of COVID-19, and offices never really filled back up, or returned to “normal,” despite the hopes of employers and realtors. Around the country, construction is underway…
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Office Building Conversions
Contract Surety 03.23.2024

Analyzing The Balance Sheet

  Businesses can have the ability to produce revenue, as shown on a P&L (profit and loss statement), but poor financial health, as reflected on the balance sheet. Because it summarizes net worth at a…
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Analyzing The Balance Sheet
Contract Surety 03.23.2024

Time for An Upgrade: Headgear

  The hard hat worn by construction workers has been a tradition for over 100 years, and came into use to provide protection from falling objects. These days, data points to the need for a…
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Time for An Upgrade: Headgear
Contract Surety 03.06.2024

Trim Your Tax Bill: Claim Your Innovations

You may already have qualified for a federal research and development (R&D) tax credit in the eyes of the IRS,  but do not know it, since this tends to be an underutilized and misunderstood opportunity…
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Trim Your Tax Bill: Claim Your Innovations
Contract Surety 02.22.2024

Worth Doing: Job Costing

  Turning a profit? Great! But, digging into the details of where you actually made and lost money can result in even more success. Insights about which types of projects are your real sweet spot,…
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Worth Doing: Job Costing
Contract Surety 02.22.2024

Stronger Than Concrete: Building With Legos?

  With the speedy completion of an apartment complex in Florida, builders have proof: Renco bricks, which are quite lego-like in appearance, and an alternative to concrete, have passed more than 400 performance tests. Communities…
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Stronger Than Concrete: Building With Legos?
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