Given the current challenging economic climate, you might think that building sustainable or green structures would be viewed as unimportant because cost for a project would rise.
After poring over the numbers for months, one expression that could be used to describe the companies that comprise our CC100 list may be: Survival of the fittest.
As we leave 2011 behind and inch closer to 2012, CC presents economic outlooks from a variety of sources. Is a recovery finally at hand?
This year's roundtable panelists discuss the future.
Ed Sullivan, chief economist for the Portland Cement Association veered off from his typical economic forecast to indentify a market that the concrete industry needs to gain a stronger foothold: road paving.
With commercial construction slow to nonexistent in many areas of the country, the nearly $25 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated for school construction is a bright spot.
Here are five reasons we feel the concrete business will come back strong—and before you know it.
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There is a financial tool that helps business owners manage costs, make better pricing decisions, and improve profits. It's called breakeven analysis. The breakeven point is the sales volume at which a business neither makes a profit nor incurs a loss.
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Daily reports help superintendents and project managers track job progress and subcontractor performance. If you are a subcontractor, daily reports can document interferences by the general contractor or other subcontractors. Estimators can use daily reports to price future similar projects. Daily...
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"What doesn't destroy me makes me stronger" could be the nation's slogan for 2001, and that's also an appropriate description of the concrete construction industry's year. It was indeed a challenging year—as is the first half of 2002. Still, many contractors found ways to make their businesses...
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Rent, lease, or own? It's only natural to rely on a combination of all three methods, renting equipment for one-time or short-term jobs, and buying for long-term jobs. Determining just the right mix, however, requires careful evaluation of your business position.
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Working capital turnover, the ratio of net revenues to working capital, indicates how efficiently a company is using working capital.
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Construction is fast-paced and involves remote sites. A lot of money that belongs to others passes through a company's books. Capturing this information with a good accounting system and accurately interpreting it is essential.
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Keep an eye out for those often overlooked ways to cut your tax bill. It’s very simple: the more tax deductions your business can legitimately take, the lower its taxable profit will be.
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If you are like most contractors, you are probably sprinting to get jobs completed by the end of the year, eager to get expenditures fulfilled and "off the books." But what about next year? Have you set aside time to plan ahead? Unfortunately, many contractors miss out on the opportunity to plan...
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Are we moving toward a recession?
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When determining the true cost of a concrete repair project, owners must consider the financial impact of shutting down a structure to perform the work.