{"id":1054,"date":"2013-10-17T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructonomics.com\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2013-11-12T18:33:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:33:19","slug":"how-do-you-get-construction-management-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/how-do-you-get-construction-management-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Get Construction Management Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The title of this post is very important. \u00a0If you just glanced at it, you may think it reads,\"19261_SMJPG_20131017092949824\" “How To<\/em> Get Construction Management Work”. \u00a0But of course this is not the case. It reads, “How Do You<\/em> Get Construction Management Work?”….with a question mark! (And yes, that was an exclamation point) And it isn’t one of those questions that is asked with the intention of later providing the answer (is that what you call a rhetorical question?). \u00a0But rather, it’s a REAL<\/em> question, and I’m looking for some REAL<\/em> answers. \u00a0So please, if there is anyone that can enlighten me along with the other members of our illustrious industry, please feel free to do so.<\/div>\n
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So yes, I will occasionally get discouraged with the “system” and I’ll be the first to admit it. \u00a0It appears to me, at times, that without family connections, political ties (kickbacks), or minority affiliation it’s damn (darn) near impossible to get a steady flow of work especially as a new company. \u00a0And public RFPs are like playing with fire. \u00a0There is so much risk in doing hard-bid public construction projects that, in my opinion, if you can’t get a very large profit margin (which you can’t) along with a healthy contingency (non-existant), the situation become so risky that it is not even worth doing.<\/div>\n
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Acting as a CM project manager or construction administrator for public projects actually seems like a pretty good gig, but how you get in front of politicians and school administrators in order to get that work, I honestly have no clue. \u00a0I imagine, just like anything else, it boils down to connections. \u00a0Are we talking about you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your’s type stuff? \u00a0Well, perhaps. \u00a0But I’m not necessarily complaining about it.<\/div>\n
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I’m not under some illusion that this World is a fair place and that the best and brightest always get the work they deserve (God forbid). \u00a0Look, if I need to start scratching backs to get work, I’ll grow my fingernails an inch long. \u00a0But first I need a back to scratch.<\/div>\n
Anyway, let’s collaborate about how to get construction management work. \u00a0I’ll share my ideas and you’ll share yours’…or vice versa! \u00a0You’ll throw some useful tips my way, and I’ll throw some your way. \u00a0Perhaps you can introduce me to someone helpful and I can in-turn introduce you. \u00a0Before you know it, we’ll be back-scratching our way to a steady flow of construction management work. \u00a0Maybe that’s just the system.<\/div>\n
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So please leave commentary and suggestions to not only scratch my back but the backs of the others that visit this site as well. \u00a0Perhaps you’ll get a back scratch in return.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title of this post is very important. \u00a0If you just glanced at it, you may think it reads, “How To<\/em> Get Construction Management Work”. \u00a0But of course this is not the case. It reads, “How Do You<\/em> Get Construction Management Work?”….with a question mark! (And yes, that was an exclamation point) And it isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}