Gilbane-Turner JV hands off $2.1B stadium to Buffalo Bills

About 6,000 craft workers clocked nearly 5 million hours over the roughly 60,000-seat venue’s three-year construction timeline. Now it’s gameday ready.

RMT members taking strike action against Birmingham freight company

Members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) will take strike action at Heavy Haul Rail Ltd on Thursday 25 June for 48 hours after the company did not rule out compulsory redundancies as part of a major restructuring programme, the… The post RMT members taking strike action against Birmingham freight company appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Building control firm went into liquidation owing £1m

A registered building control approver (RBCA) went into liquidation last week owing more than £1m to creditors. Corporate Approved Inspectors Ltd (CAI) filed for voluntary liquidation on 9 June, hours after Construction News revealed it had told the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) that its operations… The post Building control firm went into liquidation owing £1m appeared first on Construction News.

4 Best Custom Timber Frame Home Designs for Minnesota Properties

The post 4 Best Custom Timber Frame Home Designs for Minnesota Properties appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Minnesota winters hit –30°F and ground snow loads reach 60 lb/ft², yet summers stretch past 15 hours of daylight. The four Hamill Creek timber-frame plans in this guide are engineered to thrive in that swing. You’ll see exactly how each layout handles snow, heat, and humidity, what it costs (about $300–$500 per finished square foot), […]

Bid or No-Bid: How Contractors Choose Which Projects to Pursue

In short: The bid/no-bid decision is a structured evaluation of whether a specific project is worth your team's estimating time, based on profitability, fit, risk, and probability of winning. Six factors drive most go/no-go decisions: client, project, contractor, bidding, market, and economy. The top four signals are client financial capability, project risk, profit potential, and number of competitors. The true cost of a bid includes estimator hours, takeoff, plan review, and the opportunity cost of skipped bids. A healthy bid-to-win ratio sits around 5:1 for hard-bid work and 3:1 or better for negotiated and relationship-driven work. Better-fit projects beat more bids. Contractors who win consistently bid fewer jobs and qualify each one against a fixed framework before estimating starts. ConstructConnect®'s free bid/no-bid calculator runs your project through a weighted scoring model and gives you a go/no-go result in under five minutes.

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