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Small Business Trends
As the year draws to a close, it's an important time to review your company's business compliance and legal standing and make sure you’ve kept up with all your legal requirements.
Forming a corporation or LLC is an excellent way to formalize your small business and protect your personal assets. But maintaining a corporation or LLC is more involved than a sole proprietorship. You have to know and follow the rules to keep your business compliant and in good standing.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Even as construction activity appeared to be slowing down in November, industry experts released their forecasts for 2016 predicting another year of positive growth. Increases are expected in both the residential and nonresidential sectors and in public as well as private spending. Overall and in some sectors, however, the rate of growth is projected to be slower than in the past two years, due to modest improvements in the economy and shortages within the industry.
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Construction Today
Construction defects can be extremely costly, and one of the best ways to avoid them is careful planning to anticipate the common problems that occur during the design and construction phases.
For the most part, significant defects often arise in the exterior envelope of the project resulting in water intrusion including defects in the roof system, windows, sliding glass doors, stucco application, improperly applied exterior foam features and the improper installation of post-tension cables throughout a building structure.
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For Construction Pros
Sustainable building products and practices have flooded the construction industry over the past several years. According to the U.S. Green Building Council, only two percent of all nonresidential building starts in 2005 were classified as green. By 2012, that number had jumped to 41 percent, and experts predict that sustainable buildings will make up nearly half of all nonresidential construction by the end of 2015.
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Inc.
Paying taxes can be tough enough to swallow, but unintentionally overpaying taxes can be downright painful.
You may be in holiday shopping mode now, but take one moment to give yourself the gift of saving money. You may qualify for these often overlooked tax deductions, so plan now to save later.
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The FieldLens Blog
It's that time of the year when contractors wrap things up and put all the wins and losses behind them. You look forward to the New Year and put down a plan, usually with some goals to help make your business more prosperous. Putting down goals is essential, no doubt, but what might be missing from the plan is just as essential to helping you achieve those goals: bad habits, and how to kick them.
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For Construction Pros
Each year about now we publish advice on how to work outdoors in the cold months and stay comfortable and productive. We are continually learning new things about this topic and it helps to stay abreast of the best industry practices.
We have also learned the hard way that climate change is already making a difference in how we work. Severe weather events that were more or less manageable just a few years ago, will now put a conclusive stop to, or at least a major delay, in our operations. No amount of cold weather clothing is going to help when there are feet of snow falling and the temps are in single digits.
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