- Previous Episodes & Issue Archive (Check List)
- E248 – Your Last Choice: The Total Cost Claim Approach
- E247 – What Is Extended Performance?
- E246 – Mindset Differences – Major Leaguers V. Minor Leaguers
- E245 – An Offering Of A Contractor’s Standard Of Care
- E244 – Business In Hawaii Is The Same, But Totally Different
- E243 – Trench Talk: Clem Conceicao, Crane Operator
- E242 – How To Start A Professional Construction Company
- E241 – What’s The Difference Between Unit Price And Lump Sum Bids?
- E240 – The Low Bid Model – Time To Go?
- E239 – Utility Drawings 101: The Plan And Profile
- E238 – Subsurface Disclaimers Don’t Hold – Travelers V. U.S.
- E237 – Parkinson’s Law – Hoping To Quantify Pacing
- E236 – The Preparatory Meeting: Priceless
- E235 – Legal Jargon And Process 101
- E234 – Bonds And Bonding Capacity 101
- E233 – Construction Is Broken – Give Me The Onsite EOR
- E232 – The Importance Of As-Builts
- E231 – University Cooperative Education – The Real Deal!
- E230 – Water In The Hole! What’s It Mean?
- E229 – Smartsheet™ – A Contractor’s Dream
- E228 – Pipe Encasement Flotation – Archimedes Was The Man!
- E227 – Owners Loosen Your Grip!
- E226 – Reading Rebar Drawings 101
- E225 – Great Ways To Die: The Potential Energy Edition
- E224 – Don’t Get Your P.E. License
- E223 – I Wrote A Children’s Book Because I Could
- Why To Get A Contractor’s License
- Claims Tools & Methodologies
- Cake Batter And Concrete Mix Design: Same Thing!
- Help Yourself: Be The Most Coachable Player
- Ways That Engineers Manage Failure: Deflection
- Bridges 101: What Makes Up A Bridge
- Another Contractor Claims Tool: ASCE 71-21 Identifying, Quantifying, And Proving Loss Of Productivity
- Project Loss Insurance: Heard Of It?
- Debt: You Need It
- Utes And Bunds: Working In New Zealand
- Bluebeam Revu Review
- Don’t Be Afraid Of A Little Manual Work: It’s Ok
- Keep The Excavator Digging – It Drives The Cost
- Estimating: Theoretical Versus Production History
- Inside The Contractor’s Mind: Bidding, Change Orders, & Claims
- Using A Static Indirect Bid Item In Your Bids
- Lose The Guilt – Mark It Up!
- Blind And Dumb: Meeting Attendees
- Trained Or Untrained? Being Claim-Ready
- The Calibration Period: Plan For Patience
- Delay Letter: A Template & How To Write One
- Your Equipment Rates: Where To Start
- The Leonard Curves: Another Tool In Labor Loss Quantification
- Going “Legit”: Lose The Brown Paper Bag
- Jet Grout In Five Minutes
- Engine Failure Makes Engineers Great: Redundancy
- What A College Degree Says
- Contingency Doesn’t Exist When Low Bid Wins
- Bucketing – The Proper Claim Accounting Method
- K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid
- Scott Jennings, P.E.: Subject Matter Expert
- Incidental: What’s In A Word?
- Toolbox Tech On The Connected Jobsite
- Tech Tricks For Computer Efficiency
- Pipeline Podcast: Best Of 2020
- Top 7 Reads Of 2020
- Delay Types – Top 4 List
- Starting A Construction Business: A 5-Minute “How To”
- Foundations: Shallow Vs Deep – What’s The Difference?
- Pre-Bid Questioning To The Owner Or Yourself
- Financial Protection For The General Contractor & Owner: Two Ways
- Please Cough – The One Thing To Do This Week
- Setting The Bid Unit Price: 2 Main Reasons For Unbalancing
- Top 6 Ingredients Of A Letter
- Pipe Goes Bang!
- Day Labeling: Insult Your Client With Simplicity
- Closer To 1.30, Not 1.50
- Fire! Run To It, Not From It!
- Contract Mapping: A Valuable Tool In Your Toolbox
- Bid Day: You Better Honor Your Bid, Mr. Subcontractor
- An Hour’s Not An Hour, And It’s Certainly Not A Day
- Anatomy Of A Change
- Shhh, You’re Being Recorded – And Two Other Tips
- Quantifying The Loss In Labor Productivity: The MCAA Factors
- Cash V. Accrual Accounting – Whatchu Talkin’ About Willis?
- How To Do A Job Cost Projection: Cutting Through The Fog – Part 2
- How To Do A Job Cost Projection: Cutting Through The Fog – Part 1
- Mistaken Taboo: Project Overhead
- The #1 Driver Of A Construction Claim
- Don’t Be Charlie Brown’s Teacher
- Better The Devil You Know
- Estimating: It’s An Art And A Science
- Bond Premium And The Project Time Extension
- Video Conferencing Softwares: A Quick Review
- Dear Owner, No Change Orders Thank You
- I Didn’t Ask For A Lamborghini
- Letters To The Owner Need To Tell, Not Ask
- “Boosting” Job Profits On Equipment Purchase – On Paper
- But What Does It Smell Like?
- Project Parties – Who Does What?
- Signing A Change Order: What To Look For
- What Information Governs: Order Of Precedence
- Notice: Writing The Letter
- Legal Word Of The Day: Contemporaneous
- The Joint Venture Estimate: Setup Is Key
- Optimizing The Contractor’s Professional Engineer
- Wanna Eat? Help Me Kill
- Laos: Infrastructure / Means & Methods
- Earthwork: What’s A Cubic Yard?
- Takeoff: Beyond The Drawings
- From Me To You: Things I’ve Learned As A Professional
- Introduction To Contractor Estimating
- Designers Design, Constructors Construct: Drawings Constructability Review
- Designing With Cost In Mind
- The Lookahead Schedule And 90/60/30
- Cracks In Construction
- Needed Software For A Contractor
- Is One RFI One Too Many?
- If Cash Is King, Time’s The Queen
- Time, An Owner’s Achille’s Heel
- Microsoft Excel V. Microsoft Project V. Primavera P6
- Live Crew Cost Clicker
- Construction Law Bible
- Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, And Buy American
- Embedding Cost Control Culture Into The Project Cycle
- The Basics Of Advanced Scheduling Terminology
- A Crane With Wings!
- Fleet Management: Ways To Gather Data
- Instant Resolution Of Contractor Overhead Daily Cost
- Timecard Collection – Like You’ve Never Heard
- Unit Conversion
- What’s BI? Do I Need It?
- Freight Terms Over Land
- What Is Section Modulus, S?
- What’s A GL Account?
- Forecasting With Confidence
- Avoid Claims With A Pre-Bid Analysis
- Top 5 Excel Tips For Contractors
- Cost Codes: What, Why & How
- Why Be An Engineer: It’s The Mornings
- The Internal Pre-Con: Top 10
- The Construction Daily Report: Why & What
- Spearin And Modified Total Cost Method Adopted In Missouri
- Training: Now I See The Value
- Choosing A Construction Consultant
- Construction Claims Hierarchy
- Customized Programming: Easy Access And Low Cost
- Some Basic Analysis Techniques In Claim Preparation
- Engineering Or Communication Failure?
- If I Told You, You Would Have Screwed Everything Up
- Balance Sheet – Knowing The Basics Of Liabilities
- Construction Is A Battlefield
- Is That A “Pinky Ring”?
- Importance Of Timely Notification
- Being A Small Construction Business Owner: Tough, Tough, Tough
- Lose The Political Correctness And Go Find That Pipe Stretcher
- Engineering Tip, Steel Erection: If It’s Taut, It’s Carrying Load
- Contract Favors The Non-Drafting Party
- Spearin Doctrine – A Landmark Construction Law Case
- Equipment – Buy, Rent, RTO, RPO, Lease – Which One???
- Inventory Tracking: A Money Saver
- Top 10: Basic Business Etiquette
- The Unilateral Change Order
- Project Management Triple Constraint
- Cost Versus Price
- Two For Today: Taxes And Fuel
- A Quickie On DEF
- Plans Constructability Review: Why, When, And What?
- Credit Unions Versus Banks
- Conversion Of Inches To Feet (In Decimals)
- An RFI Can Satisfy Notice Requirement, Said The Feds
- Escrowing Bid Documents: What, Where, How, Why, & When?
- Standardized Contracts And ConsensusDocs: A Win-Win
- A Cheap Lawyer
- Letters – Keep Them Simple & Discrete
- Temperature Effects On Productivity
- Unbalancing A Bid And Cash Flow
- Users Of Your Financials: What They’re Looking At
- Build Your Business Into A Machine
- Divisional Separation: Pure Crap
- Why Hire A Management Consultant?
- I See Claims…
- Proposal Terms And Conditions
- Engineers And Architects Gotta Step It Up
- The Difference Between A Good And Great Estimator
- It’s Concrete, Not Cement.
- Here’s Where You Should Be Using QR Codes Today In Your Construction Company
- Construction Contract Review Basics
- Top 3 Reasons To Leave Spreadsheets
- Dead Is The Handshake
- Why Is The Accounting Department Telling Me How To Estimate?
- Anticipate Non-Obvious Movement To Prevent Serious Injury
- Top 5 Uh-Oh Signs Of A Client
- Top 5 Countdown: Things To Look For In Vendor Quotes
- In Choosing A Software – Best Advice Is To Talk To A Friend
- Changes In The 2017 AIA A201/A101/A401 Documents
- The “All Zeroes One” Code Prevents Lost A/P Invoices
- An Alternative To Eichleay: HOOP!
- Getting Paid: Some Suggestions
- Bidding A Civil Construction Project: Part II
- Bidding Out A Civil Construction Project: Part I
- The Importance Of Construction Cost Estimating For Civil Engineers
- RFID (And NFC): What Is It & How Can It Help You?
- Hawaii Case: A Subcontract Is Valid And Binding Without A Signature
- Fraud: Stop Thinking It Won’t Happen To You
- Owners Need To Stop Expecting Filet Mignon On A Hamburger Budget
- Make Claim Preparedness The Standard, Not The Exception
- Cut Out The Office Cancer For Better Office Health
- Invoice Your Clients Clearly And By The Rules To Get Paid Quickly
- What’s A Banking Covenant?
- The Power Of Habit
- Small Tools Tracking Software – Get It!
- Including The Portion Of Corporate Overhead In A Bid
- Choosing A Professional Services Provider
- Balance Sheet – Knowing The Basics Of Assets
- Estimate Handoff – Estimators To Field Team
- Bid Unbalancing – How It’s Done To Increase Profit
- Award Reversed Because Of No Expert Testimony
- Concrete Formwork – Pressure Not A Function Of Wall Thickness
- Field Tip: If In A Confrontation, Don’t Hang Up On The Police
- Owner Involvement, Careful What You Wish For
- The Good And The Bad Of Contracting
- Consistency Results In Predictability
- Jury Finds City Acted In Bad Faith And Contractor Still Pays His Own Attorney’s Fees
- Killer Clauses: No Damages For Delay
- A Contractor’s Cash Flow: Acknowledgement And Improvement
- Best Way To Save Money Is To Not Spend It
- Need It Or Want It?
- Profit Fade – Avoiding It
- The Engineer Was Negligent
- Software Designed By Construction Professionals
- Why Track Extra Costs… And How?
- Determining Equipment Rates In Estimating
- Notice – When In Doubt, Write It Out!
- Do Something Awkward Every Day
- Owner Paralysis – I.E. Vapor Lock
- Grammar For Professionals… And The Rest Of Us
- Incentive Clauses: Do They Work?
- Safety: Communication, Communication, Communication
- The $5 Casio: Your Best Tool
- Embezzlement: Password Protection
- Choosing A Professional Services Provider
- Calculation Of Workers’ Compensation (WC), General Liability (GL) & Bond In Your Estimates
- Contractor Wins Acceleration Impact Cost And The Incentive Payment
- ACEC Hawaii November Breakfast Meeting (11/03/2016)
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- Wages And Hours Of Employees On Public Works
- Giving Workers A Voice Makes Jobsites Safer
- Civil Contractor Bidding: Behind The Scenes
- Calculation Of Owner’s Estimate
- Opinion: Engineer Found Negligent For Not Verifying Product Data
- SJCC Toolbox Terms & Glossary
What’s a Deposition?
Executive Summary. A deposition is an event in the legal process. Although here I’m talking specifically about construction, this can happen in any...
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