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Construction Documentation: Cut Costs & Increase Quality

Construction Documentation: Cutting Costs = Increasing Quality

Creating and assembling effective construction administrative and safety documents is difficult, to say the least. Whether it’s an Activity Hazard Analysis or a Quality Control Plan - as a contractor, you’re constantly on the hook for meeting and exceeding the expectations of your client while meeting all applicable OSHA and USACE EM 385-1-1 regulations. Before an employee can ever step foot on the job, you are required to provide proper documentation addressing each and every task under your contract. These documents can take hundreds of hours to put together, costing your company a lot of time and money… Resources which could have gone towards doing the job you were hired for instead. 

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Three Subjects to Consider In An Environmental Protection Plan

We’ve covered worker safety extensively on our blog lately, but wanted to shift gears towards another extremely important topic: Environmental Protection. Especially in Industrial or Heavy Construction, opportunities to negatively impact the environment are around every corner. It’s our job as professionals to not only do our job safely and efficiently but to protect the surrounding area and mitigate any environmental impacts caused by construction operations. Construction projects can be large undertakings that often involve heavy equipment. The use of these can heavily degrade the environment over time, and it’s crucial to have an effective plan in place to help mitigate these risks. 

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Three Practices for a Safer Construction Site

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We all want to get the job done as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. In today’s construction world, tight deadlines and low margin for error are the norm. More importantly, however, is getting things done right while also protecting your most important asset: the crew. Last year alone, 29% of all workplace deaths in the United States were from construction. That’s a statistic that needs to change, and it starts with having leaders who understand how to mitigate risk.

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How Effective Document Creation and Management Can Help Your Company

After the thrill of the project award has subsided, reality sets in, as well as the uneasy feeling in your gut.  Whether performing federal, state, municipal, or commercial construction, required construction safety and administrative document are daunting, requiring extensive amounts of time, knowledge, and resources. While construction evokes the imagery of workers pouring concrete, operating heavy equipment, and erecting steel, the not-so-glamorous side of construction, the paperwork, can eat our lunch.