I was reading an article in ENR about a 3% withholding from contractors on government projects. The 3% mandate is due to take effect in January 2013. This would be a blow to the construction industry that is already on shaky ground. Please contact your congressional representative and let them know how you feel and [...]
If you have recently taken a client or potential client out to lunch or dinner the outcome might not have rested entirely on your sales pitch! Your choice of eating establishment may make more of an impression than you had intended. How do you know the restaurant that you took a client was a bad [...]
I mentioned in a previous blog a book that I found “Time and Motion Study and Formulas for Wage Incentives” by Lowry, Maynard, and Stegemerten. Before I found that book I had wondered how the production rates were first formed. It wasn’t something that kept me up at night – I was just curious. I assumed [...]
I was consolidating my book shelves this past week and it is amazing what I came across. There were lots of old books from the 1930’s and 1940’s. One that caught my eye was “Time and Motion Study and Formulas for Wage Incentives” by Lowry, Maynard, and Stegemerten. This book has a copyright of 1940. [...]
Here is another 9/11 related video I want to share with everyone. This one is a time lapse video of the construction of the National Memorial for Flight 93 in Stoystown, PA.
Irene, Katia and now Lee have been the latest weather news! But it is when the storms pass that the clean-up and rebuilding begins. The Midwest is still experiencing the effects of the 2011 Missouri River Flood, and being in Omaha I have a firsthand view of what the clean-up and rebuilding will involve. Here [...]
Labor Day was created in the 1880’s to recognize the contributions American workers made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. It is appropriate that we pay tribute to one of our country’s greatest assets — the American worker. We in the construction industry know that we are an important part of the [...]
What we need is another construction boom. Forget housing and commercial property! They are overbuilt and do not need the attention that other areas need, like the nation’s infrastructure. The infrastructure report card that came out in 2009 gave our infrastructure a GPA of a D. I know if any of my kids came home [...]
I had a great conversation today with a local banker. I asked him what the biggest factor for businesses not building? He said that the uncertainty with the government is crippling the businesses ability to expand. That in turn stops any further construction projects. Also new banking regulations are making it harder to find “good” [...]
