The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) oversees all construction safety throughout the United States. It is an organization that collects data on injuries and fatal accidents, and using that…
When President Trump was running for president in 2016, one of the key components of his platform was a $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending bill that he claimed would be mostly…
Electrocution has been a serious construction hazard for a very long time on construction work sites. According to OSHA, five percent of all construction deaths are attributable to electrocution. The…
When the mortgage industry bottomed out in 2008, it took the construction industry with it. When both sectors started to rebound in 2012, the construction industry had lost millions of…
The laws in place for getting a contractor’s license in the state of Wisconsin are straightforward and easy to understand. In order to maintain a Wisconsin contractor’s license, a contractor…
The construction industry has become exceptionally environmentally conscious over the past couple of decades, and with good reason. Paying attention to environmental concerns helps construction companies to build stronger buildings,…
Every construction job has costs for material and labor. The lower a contractor can keep those costs, the more profit each job will generate. Negotiating good materials prices is just…
There was a time, not too long ago, when construction companies avoided new technology at all costs. If it was an effective way to do things 20 years ago, then…
Statistics are easy ways of comparing progress from one year to the next, and that is especially true when talking about activity within a specific industry. Since 2014, the construction…
Contractors in Rhode Island are required to take a predetermined number of educational hours before they can submit an application for a contractor’s license and before they can renew their…