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Billd Adds to Leadership Team

These appointments highlight Billd’s commitment to serving commercial subcontractors at scale, by building a high-performing leadership team to set and execute against ambitious growth goals.

As Billd scales its operations and extends its reach, the company is determined to curate a powerhouse team that will actively ensure that subcontractors have the financial tools they need to succeed.

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Avoiding Data Chaos in Reconstruction Projects with SERVPRO

Managing your information in systems like Excel won’t do. Too many disconnected spreadsheets can mean data chaos, which leads to slower response and the inability to win business and take care of customers when speed and flexibility are a must.

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Construction AI Strengths & Weaknesses

The construction industry stands at the precipice of a transformative era fueled by artificial intelligence and ever-increasing pressure to build utilities, transport, energy, and housing to meet the needs of a growing population.

Dynamic insights, gained using predictive models powered by AI, can help employees to make data-informed decisions which typically lead to enhanced project outcomes.

Risk Management: Safety First

The legality and science of risk management is quite well known among most contractors and is growing in need to be embraced, understood, and practiced by all specialty contractors.

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National Construction Trade Championships Return for 35th Annual Competition

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)

ABC’s all-of-the-above approach to workforce development has produced a network of affiliates across the country that offer more than 800 apprenticeship, craft, safety, and management education programs to build the people who build America.

Craft students and apprentices travel from across the country to demonstrate their superior skills, education, and safe work practices and compete for top honors.

Job Costing: What, Why, and How

Job Costing is an important tool in evaluating your business performance. Without job costing, it’s difficult to understand where you’re making your money. You could be making a significant profit on certain types of projects and losing money on others.

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Construction Labor Report Discusses Constricted Labor Pool

ConstructConnect

This report analyzes how the labor force has shifted since the pandemic and provides practical strategies for how organizations can adapt.

The report provides five specific strategies for how businesses can adapt to these new construction labor dynamics.

How To: Skilled Labor Training

Operative Plasterers' & Cement Masons' International Association

The OPCMIA provides concrete contractors, plasters, and cement masons a path on training and apprenticeship programs throughout the country - directly addressing the challenge of finding skilled labor.

Train The Trainer Training For Concrete and Masonry Contractors

More Power Sweeping Specific Online Classes Launched

North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA)

These operator training programs create a great baseline of training for improved professionalism in your drivers.

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ABC Reveals Construction Job and Labor Data Shows Consistent Worker Shortage

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)

Industry job openings decreased by 21,000 last month and are down by 39,000 from the same time last year.

Industry job openings decreased by 21,000 last month and are down by 39,000 from the same time last year.

Elecosoft’s Asta University Introduces Powerproject

Through Asta University, Elecosoft provides colleges and universities with access to Powerproject for free, giving students firsthand experience with a construction scheduling and management package.

Schools that are given usage rights to Powerproject are primarily making it available to students within their engineering and/or construction management departments to better understand the use of technology in construction, particularly in the area of scheduling.

AEM Welcomes New Public Relations Manager

Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

AEM has welcomed a new PR manager to the team.

Straton joined AEM at the end of January as the Public Relations Manager.

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