Construction Business

Construction industry business coach, speaker, and author, Shawn Van Dyke, has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz's Profit First and customized them to address the specific needs of the construction industry. Profit First for Contractors addresses the major struggles contractors face and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them. Shawn shows contractors how to go from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable.

Estimating the cost of a project is critical to your business success. Done correctly, your company is profitable. Done wrong, you lose money. Michael Stone, a successful construction business consultant and trainer, shares his years of experience estimating residential projects in this manual. Estimating isn't difficult when you have a system. The purpose of this book is to help you create that system. It's an approach that helps you estimate without having to think about the process. An orderly approach makes estimating easier and more accurate.

At last - here from the team behind the beloved international best seller comes a companion to Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. All of our favorite trucks are back on the construction site - this time with a focus on team-building, friendship, and working together to make a big task seem small!

Construction Genius logically breaks down complex concepts into small components so any construction leader understands how to be more effective. Construction Genius covers topics as broad as how to structure a meeting so you reach an agreement on how to solve problems every time, to how to have tough conversations without ruining relationships, to how to build better teams that deliver profitable projects . . . and the one question that will save you $1 million, guaranteed.

Are you ready to take your next step? To be a great superintendent, you need training. This book will help you to do that and bring respect back to field positions everywhere. This book is filled with principles and actionable steps for assistant superintendents. I invite you to learn these, take massive action, and implement each step one-by-one. Please keep driving until everything on your project brings you joy. That is the measure of success. Expect more, step up, let's go!

Construction Scrum: How to Deliver Projects Easier, Better, and Faster is the first practical guide for construction professionals to implement the Scrum framework in the construction industry.

In this audiobook, we'll talk about the construction project management life cycle. We'll also cover contracting and contract management, the participants involved in a construction job, and the critical success factors in every contracting job. This audiobook is produced for both project managers and for homeowners who wish to build residential properties; the concepts discussed herein are general, but are important when it comes to approaching the construction process.

WHAT DO ALL SUCCESSFUL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS HAVE IN COMMON? A competent team of well-rounded leaders . . . leaders who understand that safety, efficiency, and production are essential for completing projects of all sizes on time and within budget. All construction foremen are given the opportunity to lead crews based on work ethic, mechanical skills, technical knowledge, and reputation—and these attributes are extremely important towards getting the job done.

Few construction companies fail because of poor building practice; they fail because of poor pricing practice. To succeed in construction, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material, and overhead expenses, pay yourself a decent salary, and make a profit that will keep your company thriving.

Many want to achieve success in being a project manager, but not everyone is given a roadmap on how to get there. Think about it. You worked hard, got promoted into a project management position and then what? Having risen from the entry level, Joe Egan, shares over 45 years of his knowledge and experiences in, Construction Project Management: How the Great Ones Do It.

Knowing the concepts of management accounting can have a very positive impact on your business. Through management accounting, you can create forecasts for the future, make smart buying decisions, analyze the rate of return on an investment and much more. Management accountants do a lot when it comes to the management aspect of running a business. Perhaps you are a management accountant, thinking of becoming one, or will be hiring someone who is proficient in the field. If so, this book is for you.

La Psychologie de la Construction est une réflexion humaine, psychologique et philosophique sur le monde de la construction et sur ceux qui bâtissent avec leurs mains, leur esprit et leur dignité.

This incisive, practical audio guide provides a thorough breakdown of the ins and outs everyone needs to know when turning contracting skills into a business. From summoning the motivation to start your own business to the intricacies of being your own boss, Claudiu Fatu artfully turns his personal experiences and those of other successful contractors into advice on every aspect of building a business.

Ever feel like your construction business is one mistake away from collapse? You’re not alone—and there’s a blueprint for building it right. When a once-failed contractor takes a second shot at success, he quickly learns that working in the field was the easy part. The real challenge? Creating operating and financial systems that won’t crumble under pressure. In Blueprints for Success, Timothy Wingate Jr. pulls back the curtain on the messy reality of construction entrepreneurship.

Project Controls for Federal Construction is your essential guide to navigating one of the most demanding sectors in the construction industry. With decades of combined expertise, Dr. Scott Arias and Matt Ellis unveil the real-world challenges and solutions that project managers face when working on federal government projects. This comprehensive manual blends proven strategies with practical insights, offering step-by-step guidance from bidding and budgeting to scheduling, quality assurance, and closeout processes.

Who Owns Whom? shows contractors how to create systems that reduce daily stress, improve customer satisfaction, strengthen subcontractor relationships, reduce costly callbacks, and protect their reputation while building a more profitable company.

Avery has had enough. Two years into the rehabilitation of the historic Taylor Building—a project plagued by delays and cost overruns—she’d like nothing more than to see the back of the site trailer, and pesky Project Manager Kent Armstrong. Avery is a no-frills team player who knows her way around a mortar shack and is determined to chip her way through the patriarchal barriers of heritage stone masonry. Kent is a buttoned-up budget boy with a stony facade. Impossible to please, he’s a cost, scope, and schedule junkie who thinks he knows best and never seems to listen to his expert mason.

For fans of Open Book and Sell It Like Serhant, a heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from the star of Netflix’s hit reality show Selling Sunset. In this engaging, witty, and inspirational...

Are you ready to transform the construction industry? Whether you're in Ownership, Middle Management, Supervision, Project Management or an aspiring leader, Rebuild Construction is your essential guide to driving meaningful change within the industry at a time that we need it the most.

WINNER of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Non-Fiction) The “respectfully uncensored” story of how Mandy Rennehan’s savvy business skills and innovative thinking led her to the top of the male-dominated construction industry before the age of thirty Born in Yarmouth, Nova...