SafeWork NSW Construction Safety Crackdown Expensive For Wayward Australia Firms
SafeWork NSW Crackdown On Australia Construction Safety Violations Results In Over $800 Thousand In Fines and Prosecutions In a driven effort to reduce and control construction safety violations within the Australia construction industry, Safework NSW has since...
Construction Technology – A Blueprint For Increased Project Profits
Adoption of Construction Technology, A Blueprint Of The Modern Project Profit Center As the economy booms, ambitious construction companies are beginning to take notice of the increased project profit margins brought about merely by adopting modern construction...
ACT Work Health And Safety Law Changes For Major Construction Projects
Amended ACT Work Health and Safety Tabled On June 7, 2018 With advent of a new 2018 amendment, the ACT Work Health and Safety Act 2011 may undergo major legal changes for the construction industry. Assuming that the amendment passes the ACT Legislative Assembly,...
Real-Time Integrated Data Exchange Transforms Construction Industry
Implementing Real-Time Integrated Field-to-Office Data Exchange Critical For Scaling To Meet Modern Construction Industry Growth Cycle After years of resistance to technology, the construction industry is finally beginning to reap the benefits of real-time integrated...
Slow Adoption of Technology Drives Increase In Under-performance Projects
Resistance to Modern Technology Results in Construction Industry Under-performance Projects In addressing current challenges to success within the modern construction industry, contractors cannot minimize the problem of under-performing projects. We live in an age of...
Essentials of an Optimized Construction Industry Safety Culture
Essentials of an Optimized Construction Industry Safety Culture Building Optimized Safety Culture and Health Management Within The Construction Industry An optimized safety culture helps reduce construction industry accidents. This means reduced worker anxiety, less...
Colorado Investigation Confronts Misclassification of Construction Industry Employees
Colorado Task Force Takes On Employer Abuse of Construction Industry Employee Classifications What happens when Colorado determines that an unscrupulous contractor or subcontractor has willfully misclassified construction industry employees? Nothing good. The first...
OSHA Interpretation For Construction Contractors
Four Major Categories of OSHA Interpretation OSHA standards for safety fall into four primary categories with each grouping based according to specific types of work. Divisions of employment fall into the following components of the CFR: Agriculture (Part 1928)...
OSHA proposes new crane rule addressing operator qualifications
New OSHA Qualifications Rules for Crane Operators in the U.S. Resets Employer Responsibility For Operator Competency In the ongoing drive to improve construction operations safety, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposes an updated standard...
Jobsite Millennials, A Strange New Term In The Construction Industry
Jobsite Millennials: Perhaps an unlikely combination of words. Or is it? Due to the millennial workforce reputation for slack work ethics, many contractors are somewhat nervous about taking on jobsite millennials. In a recent CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey,...
Materials and Construction Takeoff, The Basics
What Do We Mean When Talking Construction Takeoff? Construction and material takeoff, sometimes tagged merely construction take off, pertains to a particular type of estimating process. The core of the takeoff aims to enable contractors with the tools necessary for...
Certified Payroll, Understanding the Basic Construction-Focused Requirements
Certified Payroll or Getting A Handle Around Federal Form WH-347 To be submitted weekly to the oversight government contact agency, certified payroll is all about simplified compliance. The process, somewhat derived from President Trump’s promised infrastructure deal,...
Jobsite Productivity – How To Boost Productivity On Job-sites
Efficient Jobsite Productivity Promotes On Budget, On Time and Less Costly Project Completion Cost-effective jobsite productivity requires maximum employee efficiency. However, jobsite efficiency demands that construction firms establish a reliable method for...
The Backbone of An Effective Cost Code System in Construction
Cost Codes – More Than The Defined Cost of Work-In-Process Cost codes should not be defined merely as the types of work within a project. Such simplicity of definition causes one to miss the purpose of having a cost code system. At core level the codes tend to relate...
Davis Bacon Act, The Consequences of Failed Compliance
Davis Bacon Act, The Core Requirements of Compliance To simplify understanding of the Davis Bacon Act, we submit the following definition: In accordance with specific federal construction contracts, contractors are required to pay employees as specified by the...