Every Friday afternoon, a project manager on a mid-size commercial building spends two hours compiling a weekly construction report. It runs to three pages. It includes a table of contents, a detailed activity log, crew counts for each day, a weather summary, a list of materials received, and a photo appendix with thirty-one images. It […]

When the Job Is Done but the Money Is Gone A contractor wraps up a project. The site work was clean. The crew hit their deadlines. The client shook hands and said the work was excellent. But when the project manager sits down at the end of the month to review the numbers, something is