by Kamyar Shah | Jul 29, 2026 | blog, Construction
Job costing tracks the true cost of each project against what it was bid at. When costing is reconciled only after a job closes, the loss is already locked in. Contractors who move to a weekly cost-to-complete can correct a job while it still has weeks of labor left...
by Kamyar Shah | May 27, 2026 | blog, Construction
Prevailing wage is the minimum hourly rate plus fringe benefit contribution that contractors must pay on public works projects. The wage itself is rarely the problem. The administrative burden of certified payroll, fringe classification, and reporting is real,...
by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Construction
Most construction companies don’t have a sales strategy — they have a referral dependency. Work comes in through relationships built over years, repeat clients, and word of mouth from completed jobs. That model works until it doesn’t: a key relationship...
by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Construction
Construction profit margins are lower than most owners outside the industry expect — and more variable than most owners inside the industry are comfortable with. Understanding what margins are typical, what drives the variance, and how to systematically improve them...
by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Construction
Most construction companies don’t scale — they stall. Revenue plateaus in a range the owner can personally manage, and every attempt to push past it runs into the same wall: not enough systems, not enough middle management, and not enough predictability in the...
by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Construction
Most construction companies don’t fail because of bad work. They fail because the operational side — estimating, project controls, subcontractor management, cash flow, and sales — never gets the same attention as the field. A construction business consultant...
by Kamyar Shah | May 6, 2026 | blog, Construction
Certified payroll is a weekly statement of every worker on a public project, with classification, daily hours, rate, fringes, and deductions, signed under penalty of perjury. Contractors treat it as a reporting task. It behaves like a production deadline, and the...
by Kamyar Shah | Apr 8, 2026 | blog, Construction
Progress billing invoices a project in stages against work completed, rather than at the end. It exists because construction consumes cash long before it produces any. When it drifts behind the work, a contractor experiences a cash crisis on jobs that are making...
by Kamyar Shah | Apr 1, 2026 | blog, Construction
A punch list is the record of incomplete or defective work identified at substantial completion. Contractors treat it as the end of a job. It behaves like an unbudgeted second job, staffed with the least efficient crew configuration available, performed at the point...
