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While effective sales and business development efforts are necessary to ensure adequate backlog for a firm to keep its employees busy, monitoring the cost and progress of a project are…

This publication provides A/E firms with best practices for managing a financially-successful development project. Focusing on four key areas – the scope of work, fee structures, project billing, and collections,…

We are in the middle of a war on talent. In this fight, we have the opportunity to significantly influence our staff and potential staff at three specific points in…

Professional Liability Insurance is purchased by design and environmental professionals to address liability risks that arise from professional services. “Things Land Development Firms Need to Know about Professional Liability Insurance…

In today’s business environment, engineering consultants are becoming increasingly engaged in projects that involve teaming with other consultants to win new work. These teaming arrangements often require each consultant to…

Small businesses don’t always have the capabilities or capacity to fulfill large contracts on their own. They may, however, be able to meet parts of a project’s requirements. By working…

Current project delivery methods can be fraught with risk for the various project participants. Project risk accepted by the Prime Consultant/Contractor, as part of the contract with the Owner, is…

One of the key elements of consulting is, of course, payment. Often times we get mired in the technical aspect of the work we’re performing for our client, and getting…

Project closeout is an important final step in the project. Accurate recording and storing of project record will minimize the effort of documents retrieving in the future in addition to…

Record drawings are normally prepared as a requirement of the authority having jurisdiction over the owner and for the owners’ future use on other related projects. Each jurisdiction has its…