Believe it or not a contractor has been indicted for fraud for stealing over $30 million from clients over ten years.  And guess where it happened – that’s right, New York City. 

The company was Lehr Construction Corp. and they had a nifty little scheme set up with about six subcontractors with whom they were “in bed”.  [...]

I feel like public construction bidding, especially small ones are like the minor leagues of construction projects.  The pay is low, the competition is fierce and the chances of making it big are stacked tremdously against you.  Sometimes I wonder if I’m better off trying to sell lemonade on the street corner or perhaps collect tons of aluminum cans [...]

Facebook, Twitter, podcasts, friends, followers, this thing, that thing, does it ever stop?  Honestly, this  is just getting way out of hand.  There’s movies about it, talk shows, lawsuits, privacy concerns, what next?  I shudder at the thought. 

*Before we go any further I feel like I need to clear the air and just make clear that [...]

Team building is one of those touchy feely ideas that usually gets placed on the priority list alongside dentist office visits and polar bear swimming competitions.  This is probably because everyone feels that there are so many more important things to do on a construction project than have some team building event when everyone could be [...]

Mark Buckshon who writes the Construction Marketing Ideas blog and is a founder of the Design and Construction Report  is running another competition this year to determine the best construction blog.  Go ahead and cast your vote for whoever you think put together the most thought provoking, articulate, and entertaining construction blog (wink, wink).

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My theme song for 2011 is gonna be that ’70’s disco song by the Bee-Gee’s.  You know, the song from the 1977 hit “Saturday Night Fever”.  It goes something like, “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk……Ah ah ah ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ [...]

I got an email recently citing some article saying that construction starts would increase in 2011 for the first time in some ungodly amount of time.  I’d give you the exact number and cite the source and all that, but that would make this much more like a book report instead of the eloquent and flowing [...]

It’s hard to describe how owners feel about change orders.  Sometimes I think they would rather be forced to eat a bucket full of glass or perhaps permantly lose feeling in all extremities before accepting a change order that increases their project cost by .01%.  Why is this?  Change orders are a part of the [...]

Well, it took almost as long to get the permit as it did to perform the construction work, but we finally finished and Bieber Tourways operated their first day today at their new Norristown location. 

Small jobs are really kind of a pain because I feel like there is just as much work involved as there [...]