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Pick your equipment based on ROI and nothing else
You can get ratings on cars, refrigerators, mutual funds, bonds and everything else EXCEPT construction equipment. That is until now. ROItings.com changes that all.
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American Subcontractors Association
I would highly suggest that as a sub you join your local chapter if there is one in your area. They offer great benefits to helping your business. Contracts, tax laws, licensing changes, ideas for improvement in bidding, accounting, job costing from other trades as well as your competitors. There are other financial type benefits…
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GCs also need to…This one is actually funny.
In their rush to be cute and to use broad language that they can use to manipulate subs into doing work that wasn’t in their bids they should probably check and double-check the normal scope of work. For example. A real example. Probably not the best idea to omit the brick from a masonry contract…
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GCs need to stop and start
Recently there has been a move to shove all sorts of costs normally borne by the GC to the subs. This is being done in ways such as requiring a sub to have their own dumpster or back charging for uses of an on-site GC dumpster. There are some exceptions to this such as hazardous…
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Contract sharing
There is no reason to be showing the guys on site the contract between the GC and the sub. That is a management/office conversation. Being a GC doesn’t not allow for carte blanche and should properly follow rules of construction etiquette.
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Beware of the game
Ok. So I can’t say for sure that it is intentional but it feels as though there is a game being played. Nobody would ever play the subs for a fool right? Well I’ve seen many ASIs and PR’s that have portions of a page and reference on the summary sheet to very specific things…
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Proper submittal of ASI
In my previous blog post I talk about an ASI that I believe was mistakenly denied 9 months after the fact. What I realized is that from now on any ASI we receive I will be asking for the corresponding structural plans to be sent with any changes or differences as well. The architect is…
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ASI timing
So you get an ASI. You assume that by receiving the ASI you look at the plans supplied with the ASI and price accordingly. Submit ASI. Normally something like that should be approved and paid for within months. Instead 9 months later architect returns and says structurals show CMU even though the original architecturals show…
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Who gets the change order money?
Long story short. GC asks for a VE credit pre-bid/pre-contract. Sub first gives GC a number of $52,000. Sub catches a mistake in size and corrects and resubmits again pre-contract now at $26,000. GC pressures sub to return to original $52,000 price. The actual kicker of the story is GC says awarding of the bid…
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If you offer help then help.
Don’t setup expectations of sending a payment on time only to delay it another couple of weeks.