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President Biden Ups His Budget to Combat Housing Crisis

Pro Builder

President Biden Ups His Budget to Combat Housing Crisis. The Biden administration’s latest budget proposal outlines a 21% increase in the U.S. Tue, 03/29/2022 - 10:06. Over $70 billion has been allocated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to resolve a nationwide housing crisis, but will it be enough?

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

85%+of all projects are over budget (just 31% of all projects came within 10% of the budget in the past 3 years – KPMG) 52% of rework is caused by poor project data and miscommunication (2018 Industry Report – Construction Disconnected, FMI). 40-50% work is either rework or not “value-added work.” ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY.

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Improving Renovation, Repair, and Maintenance Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

The way to deliver 96%+ of renovation, repair, and maintenance projects on-time, on-budget, and at the appropriate level of quality is to enable collaboration with contractors and other expert service providers. How many task orders were completed on-time, on-budget? Discriminating: small changes are meaningful.

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The Future of Social Justice in the Workplace

Stok

2: “Non-Discrimination” becomes “Inclusion” It’s no longer enough to just not discriminate against people of certain races, ethnicity, genders, or sexual orientations. That implies that discrimination is an acceptable norm. But with limited time and budget, we know that’s not always a possibility.

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These 5 essential traits in your team are the secret to a successful construction project

Fieldwire

There’s more to a successful construction project than enough resources, workforce and budget. Mutual respect Respecting another person includes acknowledging their talents and abilities, and not discriminating against them because of their race or social background. It demands a team equipped with specific traits.

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Proposal Win Themes: Stop Relying On Them

Help Everybody Everyday

They usually tie a single, unique discriminator to a critical customer need.” In fact, we used this process to deliver NextDoor University’s library project ahead of schedule and $3M under budget.” Every proposal I’ve ever received swore up and down that they’d deliver the project on-time and on budget.

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Construction Law in North Carolina: Effective communications

Construction Marketing Ideas

Turns out, she was pregnant, and she decided to assert that she was effectively an employee and we were discriminating against her because of her pregnancy. I decided to see if we could find a solution that wouldn’t burn our budget so arranged for a brief meeting with the former contractor. It was just the two of us.