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4 Key Trends in 2021 to Maximize Profits
Jan 15, 2021
The past year has been a challenging one for the construction industry.
2020 Year-End Planning
Nov 02, 2020
2020 has been anything but predictable.
Industry Outlook: Attitudes & Expectations
Nov 02, 2020
While some contractors were taking recession-proof measures such as containing expenditures and k...
Finding Opportunity: Protecting Your Employees & Preserving Your Culture
Nov 02, 2020
At the beginning of 2020, many contractors were focused on recruiting and retaining employees – u...
A practical Guide to Understanding Retainage
Mar 01, 2017
Imagine you only pay 90% of the price of a shirt, wear it a few times, and then pay the balance a...
Understanding Changing Skills & Requirements for Estimators
Jul 03, 2017
Estimating in construction once meant receiving a set of plans and sending back a dollar figure. ...
Plastic is the New Paper: Leveraging Company Credit Cards
Sep 01, 2017
This past year, credit cards became the most preferred payment form.1
CFMA’s 2017 Construction Financial Benchmarker Executive Summary
Nov 01, 2017
CFMA and Industry Insights are pleased to present the Executive Summary from CFMA’s 2017 Construc...
How to Succeed Despite the Labor Shortage
Jan 01, 2015
Economic improvements and positive trends of increased construction spending are welcomed sights.
CFMA’s 2014 Annual Financial Survey Online Questionnaire Results
Jan 01, 2015
CFMA and Industry Insights are pleased to present the results of CFMA’s 2014 Construction Industr...
Near-Term Outlook is Not Upbeat, but Hope Springs Eternal
Dec 01, 2020
During the pandemic’s earlier phases, the U.S. construction industry represented a bulwark of rel...
The State of State & Local Government Finances
Nov 02, 2020
Fiscally, the biggest difference between the federal government and state/local governments is th...
Federal Gas Tax: The Song Remains the Same
May 01, 2019
Henry Ford’s Model T helped democratize automobile ownership by rendering cars affordable to larg...
Tariffs & Infrastructure: An Update
Feb 01, 2019
If there is one aspect on which the major political parties can agree, it is that the nation cont...
State Surpluses a Boon for Infrastructure Spending
Nov 01, 2018
For decades, it was conventional wisdom that the nation’s infrastructure problems had to be solve...
The FAST Act - Year Three Approaches
Nov 01, 2017
On its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave the U...
Make Infrastructure Great Again
Feb 01, 2018
Here’s the situation – America’s infrastructure is a disaster. Occasionally, this brutal reality ...
Stuck in the Slow Lane: American Infrastructure Spending Takes a Back Seat
Aug 01, 2017
U.S. infrastructure was once the envy of the world. The accelerated development of infrastructure...
The FAST Act Is Working Slowly
May 01, 2017
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), signed into law in late 2015, was the...
Making American Infrastructure Great Again
Mar 01, 2017
American infrastructure was once the envy of the world. The 19th century saw the development of t...
Not So FAST: A Year into the FAST Act, Infrastructure Spending Remains Soft in America
Nov 01, 2016
Nearly a year has passed since President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation...