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National Association of Home Builders
Curious about what happens during an inspection conducted by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and how to get ready for one? If so, here are some tips and guidelines that may come in handy. For starters, before a compliance safety and health officer ever sets foot on the job site, builders should do the following.
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Forbes
The typical "financial adviser" or retirement planner sometimes just doesn't understand entrepreneurs or business owners. They're used to the W-2 employee who is content to passively funnel money into 401(k)s and IRAs full of mutual funds.
But for the entrepreneur, there's much more to personal finance than that. So here's a personal finance checklist for entrepreneurial strategies your typical retirement planner probably won't know to help you with.
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FMI Corp via For Construction Pros
Construction activities are expected to pick up for the remainder of the year, bringing the forecast for growth upward to 6 percent for 2015, from the previous forecast of 5 percent in Q2, according to the Q3 FMI Construction Outlook.
The Q3 FMI Construction Outlook forecasts growth for 17 sectors, across residential, non-residential and non-building groups. Manufacturing continues to be the fastest-growing construction sector this year at 18 percent.
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AllBusiness Experts
Customers can seem enigmatic at times. You try to predict their behavior, but a lack of data or analytic misdirection can cause you to veer off course and miss the mark, leaving you scratching your head and wondering how you got it so wrong.
Sound painfully familiar? Unpredictable, fickle and sometimes hard to explain, customers remain the lifeblood of any business, so it's worth taking the time to get to know them a little better. It's impossible to always accurately predict every customer's reaction and decision-making process, but taking steps to better understand your customer base can help you fulfill their needs and increase the chances of a sale. Here's how.
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For Construction Pros
Construction business owners are busy, but they still have to find time to keep the pipeline of work flowing. In an article from Associated General Contractors of America's Constructor, author Anne Bouleanu pinpoints three tasks contractors can do for five minutes a day to help keep new business coming in: check in, network and get social.
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By Michael J. Berens
 If you play the numbers, the numbers are promising. Every day 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 and, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, they will continue to do so until 2030. Even accounting for those who plan to age in place in their current homes well into retirement, that translates into tens of millions of seniors who will need housing and care facilities. The question nagging the construction industry at the moment is, if you build it, will they come?
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