Construction Business

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!

How many of us have been told after we graduated that what you studied in books is one thing, and how it works in reality is something different! This audiobook is a complete guide that takes you through all phases of a project.

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.

As the CEO, board member, and executive of an architecture, engineering, and construction company, you are under pressure to lead your company in the age of AI disruption. Not knowing AI’s impact on your business and how you should respond is challenging.

Lean Construction is a way to do more and more with less and less; less effort, less equipment, less time and less space whilst providing customers with exactly what they want. A Lean system, process, and organisation is one that is waste free. Lean is not about size or number of people employed. A reduction in employees may cut costs, and eliminate the waste of those employees, but does not decrease the proportion of waste to value adding within the organisation or process.

Design and construction industry practitioners collaborated to bring you Transforming Design and Construction: A Framework for Change, the first of LCI's Transforming Design and Construction series, to encourage discussion, learning, and experimentation around Lean processes. The short chapters focusses on various Lean topics. They are not designed as a "how-to" for Lean tools, but as a framework for learning and to guide you along your Lean journey.

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

For 30 years, Joe Egan has been an owner of one of the largest construction companies in the nation, The Egan Companies. Over that time, he's successfully negotiated millions of dollars in construction contracts based on "the right price, not the low price". There is a method and skill set that made him successful in a tough bidding industry. With years of construction negotiation experience, Joe is here to help you beat your competition at your next presentation with information that is easy to understand and quick to implement.

Applying the dozens of lessons and practical advice will save you the time, energy, and cost of learning them the way I did—the long way and the hard way. Adopting these principles early in your business career will significantly improve your chances of success and move you ahead of your peers who are not as well informed.

At the end of this audiobook, you would have found your niche in the industry, which is the first step to venturing into a successful business online. You will know why niche marketing is viable. You will learn why you should focus on a specific target audience to ensure success in the business.

This audiobook will take you through some useful tips for making money behind your keyboard. You'll be taken through the important pointers in each method, and, where applicable, you'll be given reviews of relevant resources (complete with pros and cons) you can use to increase your output. You'll also gain valuable insights on existing strategies you may have to exploit.

In this audiobook, you'll learn about web analytics, with particular focus given on the different technologies and methods used for on-site analytics.

Building a good website using WordPress is only the first part of making a presence in the online market. You also need to improve its online visibility to drive traffic, which is crucial for your goals in marketing and brand building. Among these goals are driving traffic to your site, improving your conversion rates, and ultimately getting the visitor to buy your products or services.

In this section you will learn all the key information you need about web hosting and hosting services in order for you to get your WordPress site up and running. After giving you a general look into what it is and what it can do for you, this section will also explain the most important factors that you have to consider when looking for the best hosting services that will complement your needs.

This audiobook is a discussion on how to choose and buy domain names. It includes a simple explanation of what a domain name really is and why a monetized blog needs to have its own domain name. Other important topics include how to choose the best domain name for a website or blog, registering one's chosen domain name, and what to do when the domain name is already taken.

This audiobook will teach you how you can market your website in order to drive traffic and get your content spread to a wider network. You'll learn how to make use of popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn in promoting your content, as well as other sites such as Reddit and Digg.

In this audiobook, you'll learn the advantages of email marketing, the various types of email messages, the basics of copywriting, and how to build an email list. You'll gain an understanding of why email marketing is important in setting up a website, especially if it's for business purposes. You'll also learn to create different email marketing messages and try to come up with your own based on the given models.