Bøker utgitt av BuilderBooks

The path to a thriving business starts with a map that puts you in control. If you don't plot your course to success, you'll just end up spinning your wheels. The Paper Trail, explains the difference between busyness and business success. It's your map to creating a profitable business that will help you fulfill your dreams.

Learn essentials of managing projects well and within budget, from scheduling and jobsite safety to quality and customer service in this long-anticipated revision of Basic Construction Management.

An insider's guide to residential green building that leads you through the actual residential construction process and details how you can apply green building techniques that will benefit your business, your relationships with your customers, your reputation, and your bottom line.

Provides new information about warranties based on research for NAHB members on hundreds of warranty issues. This second edition addresses the changes to state statutes of repose applicable to construction and changes and additions to the mandatory notice provisions in states that have these laws.

It's a proven fact-maintaining positive relationships with homeowners after move-in increases sales. Savvy builders are putting this potent marketing force to work by ensuring that their after move-in services gives them the competitive edge.

Building suppliers, manufacturers, trade contractors, real estate brokers - if you sell products or services to home builders, this book will increase your success rate. Steve Monroe draws on over 30 years of sales wisdom to provide tools that assess where you stack up as a sales or service professional, motivate you, and polish your performance.

Explains in simple language how to comply with OSHA excavation standards on residential jobsites. In an easy-to-use English-Spanish format, it provides guidelines for conducting safe trenching and excavation operations and identifies safe work practices that can prevent serious accidents and injuries.

Performed correctly, estimating is your key to keeping more of your hard-earned profit. Master builder and business expert Bill Asdal shows builders and remodelers how to estimate based on fiscal goals and protecting the company's bottom line.

Bill Webb shares his secrets of success in this book so you can win big with them. Sweet Success in New Home Sales: Selling Strong in Changing Markets focuses on increasing market share, profit margins, and personal incomes in ""lean"" times.

Land developers know that success hinges on knowledge, planning, and experience. Whether you are new to the field or are looking to brush up your knowledge, Land Development is your comprehensive resource to this demanding and exciting industry.

Provides home buyers with firsthand, up-to-date information about what to expect, who's responsible for what tasks, the questions they need to ask, and the opportunities and options available at each stage of the building process. Carol Smith shares her expertise to help you provide the utmost in customer satisfaction.

Scaffold-related accidents result in injuries and deaths and continue to occur despite updated standards from OSHA. Make sure your employees are safe and comply with these standards by providing this illustrated English-Spanish handbook.

Provides the most accurate information on buyer preferences so that you can deliver the home that today's buyers want. In this latest study, the analysis shows not only what the typical, average buyer wants in terms of features, layout, technology or community amenities, but also how those preferences differ based on demographic factors.

Provides statistics and analysis so you can see how you compare to other builders, whether you build two homes a year or 2,000. This one-of-a-kind resource discusses financial performance according to builder type and size, as well as industry-wide averages using key indicators.

Salary, bonus, and benefit data for 39 jobs across the industry. The Single-Family Builder Compensation Study, 2017 Edition was conducted in July 2017 by the NAHB Housing Policy and Economics Group. It collected data on compensation and benefits for 39 common positions at single-family home building companies.

Shows you how to create a winning marketing plan by carefully setting goals, creating strategy, and targeting audiences. This book will help you take a long-term approach to building and maintaining an effective marketing strategy with social media as a main component.

If you are a builder or builder's representative, you have an uphill road with many obstacles when it comes to working with brokers. This book will give you hard-won, practical suggestions to help your company create long-term, powerful, and productive relationships with your local real estate brokers.

If you are a great craftsman and project manager but not good at numbers or paperwork, then you need to learn how. Finding Hidden Profits shows you step-by-step how to position your business to make more money through these key elements: allowances; change orders; draw schedules; detailed specifications.

It is plain old common sense: you want your home to look great, feel great, and perform great. Is it even possible to do all three-without breaking the bank? Yes! In Living Green Effortlessly: Simple Choices for a Better Home, Marla Esser Cloos shows you how to make your home green.

Age can play a significant role in what buyers want to see in a potential new home. This study presents findings not just for the average home buyer, but also highlights the housing preferences of Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) and how they compare to buyers of other generations.

Typical home buyers often don't understand the language building professionals use to market green homes. We can meet this challenge by rethinking how we talk to our customers. This book discusses the latest data on the green and performance-related messages consumers respond to and what they are willing to pay for.

By the time you compare your accounting reports with your job costing, estimating and change orders, and pipeline, it's too late to make adjustments to guarantee profit. This book will help you see where you stand every day, with every job, by monitoring just "7 Key Numbers" that drive all profits and cash flow.

Four out of five businesses fail due to cash problems needlessly. Every business owner has the tools to accurately forecast cash flow, they just don't know it. Financial Forecasting in Microsoft (R) Excel shows small- to medium-sized businesses how to achieve the same forecasting power as larger companies.

Covers the major steps involved in successful new home sales. Learn the ins and outs of the comprehensive contract, the move-in, warranty service, referrals, and a great close. This third edition includes a new chapter on using social media in your marketing, and a more extensive chapter on multicultural sales.

A concise guide to current best practices for designing, constructing, testing, and ensuring longevity for new high-performance homes, Green Building Strategies explains in plain language what's happening in the rapidly evolving field of building science.

Create efficient schedules to monitor and control construction progress using Microsoft (R) Project 2010. You'll produce more projects with the same management staff and fewer headaches in the field and the back office. This book will help you schedule your next project with confidence and ease.

Covers basic but essential knowledge for running a successful company, whether you're a veteran builder or new to residential construction. This comprehensive resource will help you to become informed about the details of marketing, estimating, contracts, purchasing, and accounting, which are as important as knowing your construction guidelines.

Creating estimates for your new residential construction project just got a little easier. In Estimating with Microsoft (R) Excel, Third Edition, Jay Christofferson details step-by-step how you can save money and time by using Microsoft (R) Excel 2007 to develop estimates that are reliable enough for your most important management decisions.