2022

• Week 6: Why To Get A Contractor’s License

2021

• Week 43: Claims Tools & Methodologies
• Week 41: Ways that Engineers Manage Failure: Deflection
• Week 40: Bridges 101: What Makes Up A Bridge

• Week 37: Another Contractor Claims Tool: ASCE 71-21 Identifying, Quantifying, And Proving Loss Of Productivity
• Week 32: Project Loss Insurance: Heard of It?
• Week 30: Debt: You Need It
• Week 29: Utes and Bunds: Working in New Zealand
• Week 28: Bluebeam Revu Review
• Week 27: Don’t Be Afraid Of A Little Manual Work: It’s Ok
• Week 26: Keep The Excavator Digging – It Drives The Cost
• Week 25: Estimating: Theoretical Versus Production History
• Week 23: Inside The Contractor’s Mind: Bidding, Change Orders, & Claims
• Week 22: Using a Static Indirect Bid Item in Your Bids

• Week 20: Lose the Guilt – Mark it Up!
• Week 18: Blind and Dumb: Meeting Attendees
• Week 17: Trained or Untrained? Being Claim-Ready
• Week 16: The Calibration Period: Plan for Patience
• Week 15: Delay Letter: A Template & How To Write One
• Week 14: Your Equipment Rates: Where to Start
• Week 13: The Leonard Curves: Another Tool In Labor Loss Quantification
• Week 12: Going “Legit”: Lose The Brown Paper Bag
• Week 11: Estimating: It’s an Art and a Science

• Week 10: Jet Grout in 5 Minutes
• Week 9: Engine Failure Makes Engineers Great: Redundancy
• Week 8: What and college degree says
• Week 7: Contingency Doesn’t Exist When Low Bid Wins
• Week 6: Bucketing – the Proper Claim Accounting Method
• Week 5: K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid
• Week 4: Tech Tricks for PC Efficiency
• Week 3: Incidental: What’s in a word?
• Week 2: Pipeline Podcast: Best of 2020
• Week 1: Top 7 Reads of 2020

2020

• Week 52: Types Of Delays – Top 4 List
• Week 51: 5-Minute “How To”: Starting A Construction Business
• Week 50: Shallow versus Deep Foundations: What’s the Difference?
• Week 49: Pre-Bid Questioning to the Owner or Yourself
• Week 48: Financial Protection For The General Contractor & Owner: Two Ways
• Week 47: Please Cough – The One Thing to Do This Week
• Week 46: Setting The Bid Unit Price: 2 Main Reasons For Unbalancing
• Week 45: Top 6 Ingredients of a Letter
• Week 44: Pipe Goes Bang!
• Week 43: Insult Your Client With Simplicity: Day Labeling
• Week 42: Closer to 1.30, not 1.50
• Week 41: Fire! Run To It, Not From It!
• Week 40: What Information Governs: Order of Precedence

• Week 39: Contract Mapping: A Valuable Tool in Your Toolbox
• Week 38: You Better Honor Your Bid on Bid Day Mr. Subcontractor
• Week 37: An Hour’s not an Hour, and it’s Certainly not a Day
• Week 36: Anatomy of a Change
• Week 35: Shhh, You’re being Recorded – and Two Other Tips
• Week 34: Quantifying the Loss in Labor Productivity: the MCAA Factors
• Week 33: Cash v. Accrual Accounting – Whatchu Talkin’ About Willis?
• Week 32: How To Do A Job Cost Projection: Cutting Through The Fog – Part 2
• Week 31: How To Do A Job Cost Projection: Cutting Through The Fog – Part 1
• Week 30: Mistaken Taboo: Project Overhead

• Week 29: Notice: Writing the Letter
• Week 28: Signing a Change Order: What to Look For
• Week 27: Earthwork: What’s a Cubic Yard?
• Week 26: The Number 1 Driver of a Construction Claim
• Week 25: Don’t be Charlie Brown’s Teacher
• Week 24: Wanna Eat? Help Me Kill
• Week 23: Better the Devil You Know
• Week 22: From Me to You: Things I’ve Learned as a Professional
• Week 21: Estimating: It’s an Art and a Science
• Week 20: ICYMI – Webinars & Podcasts

• Week 19: Bond Premium and the Project Time Extension
• Week 18: Video Conferencing Softwares: a Quick Review
• Week 17: Dear Owner, No Change Orders Thank You
• Week 16: I Didn’t Ask for a Lamborghini
• Week 15: Letters to the Owner Need to Tell, Not Ask
• Week 14: “Boosting” Job Profits on Equipment Purchase – on Paper
• Week 13: But What Does It Smell Like?
• Week 12: Project Parties – Who does what?
• Week 11: Signing a Change Order: What to look for
• Week 10: What Information Governs: Order of Precedence

• Week 9: Notice: Writing the Letter
• Week 8: Legal Word of the Day: Contemporaneous
• Week 7: The Joint Venture Estimate: Setup is Key
• Week 6: Optimizing the Contractor’s Professional Engineer
• Week 5: Wanna Eat? Help me Kill
• Week 4: Laos: Infrastructure/Means & Methods
• Week 3: Earthwork: What’s a Cubic Yard?
• Week 2: Avoid Claims with a Pre-Bid Analysis
• Week 1: Takeoff: Beyond the Drawings