I received an email a few weeks ago from Brent Darnell telling me and a number of his other LinkedIn contacts that ENR magazine published a review of his book, “The People Profit Connection.” Due to time constraints, workload, prior obligations (ok fine, it was procrastination), I just got around to reading it […]
I didn’t know much, if anything, about fracking until about three months ago when I downloaded a podcast of This American Life that explored the issue and then specifically looked into two professors who had conflicting opinions about the benefits of fracking. After listening to the podcast, I came to the […]
On Friday I happened to be in a little place called New York City. While there, I happened to stroll through a particular street you may have heard of once or twice before – Wall Street.
This time however, there was no sign of Michael Douglass charging along the sidewalk in an Italian suit with a […]
Schuylkill has to be one of the weirdest words to spell. Try spelling it without looking – I guarantee you won’t get it. I always thought it was an Indian word but after reading somewhere on the internet, I learned that it’s actually Dutch, named by its Dutch discoverer. Either way, it’s hard to spell, however, it is […]
Remember the days when it was a big deal to go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City and throw a few bucks down on black or red and possibly pull a few slots? It was fun to make a trip of it. Yeah, you would lose a lot of money more often than not, but […]
I feel like public construction bidding, especially small ones are like the minor leagues of construction projects. The pay is low, the competition is fierce and the chances of making it big are stacked tremdously against you. Sometimes I wonder if I’m better off trying to sell lemonade on the street corner or perhaps collect tons of aluminum cans […]
Team building is one of those touchy feely ideas that usually gets placed on the priority list alongside dentist office visits and polar bear swimming competitions. This is probably because everyone feels that there are so many more important things to do on a construction project than have some team building event when everyone could be […]
Well, it took almost as long to get the permit as it did to perform the construction work, but we finally finished and Bieber Tourways operated their first day today at their new Norristown location.
Small jobs are really kind of a pain because I feel like there is just as much work involved as there […]
I’m sure there are many youngsters that just received a diploma this month with a concentration in construction management. Now they are boggled in debt and left with no income on which to live. So of course the simple solution to that is to get a job. Well, unfortunately we are in perhaps the worst […]
I was at the jobsite of one of my projects about a week ago….ok, ok, I was at on the plumbers web site to have them come do a project about a week ago, and the plumber was roaming around installing some drinking fountains. This guy had done work for the municipality in the […]
