One Stop Shopping for Construction Books, Code Books, Contractor Tools & Equipment
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 One Stop Shopping for Construction Books, Code Books, Contractor Tools & Equipment |
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Accounting |
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Accounting & Financial Management for Residential Construction -
Fourth Edition! |
How to guide and evaluate your company’s financial performance. How to understand bookkeeping and accounting procedures, do financial planning and job cost accounting, and prepare, analyze, and use the information from your accounting system.
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Accounting with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro with Proper Accounting |
Learn to use the QuickBooks® software to its full potential - through practical examples, we'll show you how to utilize powerful functions that will allow you to track Income & Expenses for Job Costing and Departmentalized accounting purposes so that you can maximize the value of the QuickBooks® software to your company.
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Builder's Guide to Accounting Revised |
Step-by-step, easy-to-follow guidelines for setting up and maintaining records for your building business. This practical, newly-revised guide to all accounting methods shows how to meet state and federal accounting requirements, explains the new depreciation rules, and describes how the Tax Reform Act can affect the way you keep records. Recommended reading for many state contractor's exams. Each chapter ends with a set of test questions, and a CD-ROM included FREE has all the questions in interactive self-test software.
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Contractors
Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2005 |
QuickBooks Pro can save you hours of time in preparing your taxes. But setting up the new 2004 QuickBooks Pro can be complex and time-consuming. Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2005 can save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the new features that this 2004 edition offers. QuickBooks Pro isn't just for taxes. You can use it for payroll, keeping track of your vendors and subs -- even job costing (comparing your estimated costs to your actual costs and finding out where you're making and losing money.)
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Contractors
Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2004 |
QuickBooks Pro can save you hours of time in preparing your taxes. But setting up the new 2004 QuickBooks Pro can be complex and time-consuming. Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2004 can save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the new features that this 2004 edition offers. QuickBooks Pro isn't just for taxes. You can use it for payroll, keeping track of your vendors and subs -- even job costing (comparing your estimated costs to your actual costs and finding out where you're making and losing money.)
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Markup
& Profit: A Contractor's Guide |
To succeed in a construction business, you have to price your jobs to cover all labor, material and overhead expenses, and make a decent profit. The problem is knowing what markup to use. This book gives you tried and tested formulas, with step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow examples, so you can easily figure the markup that’s right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use.
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Quicken
for Contractors |
Most builders, contractors, and remodelers came up through the ranks, learning their craft "in the trenches." They know how buildings go together, but office management skills like bookkeeping, accounting, payroll and job costing are often a new, and dangerous, challenge. Quicken for Contractors explains how to use Quicken, an affordable, easy-to-understand computer program published by Intuit. It shows step-by-step how Quicken can work in the builder’s office, putting accurate bookkeeping within easy reach. (Computer Disk included)
Business Forms, Logs & Contracts |
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Atlas Construction Business Forms |
Save time and money with pre-printed 2-part NCR Atlas Business Forms! -
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Atlas Construction
Business Forms CD-ROM |
The Atlas Construction Business Forms CD consists of 122 essential forms to keep your business transactions looking professional and organized. Atlas Construction Business forms come in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word format. The Word forms are fully customizable so you can change and/or add information tailoring each form to meet specific job applications. Just add your company name and information for fully customized, professional looking forms.
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Atlas Construction
Daily Project Log for Construction and Maintenance |
Track events and projects with the Construction Daily Project Log 395 undated log pages give you the flexibility to keep track of events without preprinted dates! Effortlessly keep track of daily events and occurrences including: weather conditions, craftspeople, contract extras, equipment usage and rental, material purchases, overall progress, safety concerns, accidents
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Construction
Forms & Contracts |
125 forms you can copy and use – or load into your computer (from the FREE disk enclosed). Then you can customize the forms to fit your company, fill them out, and print. Loads into Word for Windows, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Works, or Excel programs. You'll find forms covering accounting, estimating, fieldwork, contracts, and general office. Each form comes with complete instructions on when to use it and how to fill it out.
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Contractor's Year-Round Tax Guide |
How to set up and run your construction business to minimize taxes: corporate tax strategy and how to use it to your advantage, and what you should be aware of in contracts with others. Covers tax shelters for builders, write-offs and investments that will reduce your taxes, accounting methods that are best for contractors, and what the I.R.S. allows and what it often questions.
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Electrical
Contractors' Business Forms CD-ROM |
Loaded with essential forms created just for the electrical industry. These forms will help ensure that your business transactions always look professional and organized. Available in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word format, you can fully customize each of the over 40 forms for quick and polished documents every time.
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Production Checklist for Builders |
Tailor each checklist to meet your specific needs and print out a clean, customized set for every job. These easy-to-use, step-by-step checklists give you day-to-day procedures to confirm start dates, monitor progress, predict completion dates, meet production schedules, and produce a quality finished product every time. Includes computer disk.
Drawings & Blueprints |
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Blueprint Reading for the Building Trades |
How to read and understand construction documents, blueprints, and schedules. Includes layouts of structural, mechanical, HVAC and electrical drawings. Shows how to interpret sectional views, follow diagrams and schematics, and covers common problems with construction specifications.
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Builders Essentials: Plan Reading & Material Takeoff |
by Wayne J. Delpico, CPE This book shows and explains the typical work drawings encountered by contractors in residential and light commercial construction. Explains in straight forward language, not only the way all common features are represented but also how to translate that information into a material list
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Scale Master II / PC Interface Combo Pack |
Portable, Digital Take-Off Tool With 91 Built-in Scales - For Construction Estimators, Contractors or Anyone Who Works with Blueprints - Thousands of construction pro's use the Scale Master II to bid faster and more accurately. Now it's time for you to gain the competitive edge, and perform take-offs with speed and confidence! Instantly double-check plans. Transfer data directly to your PC & estimating program (with included PC interface). Cut estimating errors and improve profits
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Scale Master II |
Portable, Digital Take-Off Tool With 91 Built-in Scales & Optional PC Interface - For Construction Estimators, Contractors or Anyone Who Works with Blueprints - Obtain fast, accurate take-offs from blueprints in any scale, anywhere! Thousands of construction pro's use the Scale Master series of digital plan measures to bid faster and more accurately. Also Available >> Optional PC Interface for Scale Master II
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Understanding
Construction Drawings |
Updated to the 2003 International Building and Residential Codes, the fourth edition of Understanding Construction Drawings continues to highlight a range of real construction projects - from residential dwellings to commercial structures. A set of drawings accompanies each building so that readers can apply important skills and gain a "real-world" understanding of construction drawings.
Estimating & Bidding |
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ConcreteCalc Pro
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with protective hardcover case |
The only Calculator Designed Specifically for Concrete Construction Pros! - Use the calculator that is helping thousands of construction pro's save time, eliminate costly mistakes, and improve profits. The innovative ConcreteCalc lets you perform instant square-ups, layouts, accurately estimate material costs & volumes, and solve common construction problems like a pro. Why work another day without it?
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Construction Master
Pro (Desktop Version) |
With Jumbo Display For Building, Carpentry & Architect/Engineering Pros - Work Smarter, Build Better, and Improve Your Bottom Line! The Construction Master Pro Desktop is the most complete construction-math calculator on the market! With many powerful new built-in solutions and expanded preference selection; it’s easy to use for fast, accurate solutions to construction problems. Perfect for completing layouts, bids and estimates – saves time, money, materials and frustration. No office should be without it.
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Construction Master Pro
(Handheld Version) |
New Look, New Features and Benefits, More Built-in Solutions - Top-of-the Line Jobsite Calculator for Builders, Carpenters & Construction Pros - The Construction Master Pro sets the industry standard for advanced construction-math calculators. It provides powerful built-in solutions and expanded preference settings. It’s easy to use in the field or office and perfect for completing plans, layouts, bids and estimates – saves time, money, materials and frustration. Work smarter, build better and improve your bottom line with the Construction Master Pro!
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Construction Master Pro Workbook and Study Guide
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An easy-to-use training aid that will help you learn common construction-math principals, building techniques and acquire the skills to utilize the Construction Master Pro advanced  Feet-Inch-Fraction calculator – accelerating your
productivity on the job and in the classroom.
This comprehensive, must-have
study guide conveys the fundamentals of the most complete builder’s,
construction-math calculator on the market!
(Buy Both and Save!)
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Estimating & Bidding for
Builders & Remodelers |
Here is all the information you need for estimating and bidding construction and home improvement projects. Explains what you need for a career as a construction estimator, how to construct a take-off from the plans, how to check the details of an estimate, prepare a schedule, deal with subs, and calculate project overhead and profit. Also covers how to estimate remodeling work for typical remove and replace jobs, and include markup for remodeling work.
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Builders Essentials: Estimating
Building Costs for the Residential & Light Commercial Contractor |
A detailed look at every construction specialty—explaining all the components, takeoff units, and labor needed for well-organized, complete estimates. Every contractor has a unique system for putting a bid together... but when you submit a price, you must be prepared to back it up with a reliable estimate. This book gives you a step-by-step process for organizing all the information you need to assemble an estimate you can rely on… so you’ll be competitive and know that you’ll make a worthwhile profit.
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Successful
RFPs in Construction |
The negotiated contract method for RFPs is a rapidly growing trend in construction. - There is no other book on the shelf that either focuses specifically on RFPs in the construction industry, or features a step-by-step method for implementing the negotiated contract method. - This is a step-by-step guide for managing the RFP process in a way that saves time, money, enhances team collaboration, and assures quality in construction.
Exam Preparation |
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Building Contractor’s Exam Preparation Guide |
Passing today’s contractor’s exams can be a major task. This book shows you how to study, how questions are likely to be worded, and the kinds of choices usually given for answers. Includes sample questions from actual state, county, and city examinations, plus a sample exam to practice on. Knowing how to answer these questions, as well as what to expect from the exam, can greatly increase your chances of passing.
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Contractor's Exam Book |
How to Pass the Examination for Master Builder and General Contractor - Designed and written to help candidates prepare for the certified General and Residential Contractor Licensing Exams. Contains valuable information on site plans, excavation, framework, concrete, masonry, framing, steel construction and much more.
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Contractor's State License Guide -
'B' General Building Exam |
Everything you need to pass the General Building License exam for the State of California. You’ll find hundreds of multiple choice questions and answers to help you pass the state exam. Originally written for the State of California, this exam guide can be used to help you raise your score on any state’s licensing exam.
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Contractor's State License
Guide - Law & Business Exam |
Here you’ll find all the information required for the law and business examination for the State of California. You’ll find how to answer questions on employee issues, contracts, job management, safety, insurance, bookkeeping, estimating, bid procedures, licensing, mechanic’s liens, and building codes. Includes sample exams to help you find the areas you need more work on. Designed for the California Contractor Exam, but should help raise your score on any state’s contractor exam.
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QuickPass CD-ROM for the General Building Examination |
This CD-ROM has over 300 multiple choice questions covering all the points covered in the actual California State Contractor’s Exam. You’ll learn the right answer and a full explanation of the basic principles involved in that question. Even if you guess the right answer, the explanation is given, so you learn the material in the test. Originally designed for the California exam, this CD-ROM can help anyone in any state pass the general building examination in their state.
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QuickPass
CD-ROM for the
Law & Business
Examination |
This CD-ROM has over 300 multiple choice questions covering all the points covered in the actual California State Contractor’s Exam. You’ll learn the right answer and a full explanation of the basic principles involved in that question. Even if you guess the right answer, the explanation is given, so you learn the material in the test. Originally designed for the California exam, this CD-ROM can help anyone in any state pass the law and business exam in their state.
Office Management |
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Builder's Office Manual, Revised |
Create routine ways of doing all the things that must be done in every construction office: organizing the office space, establishing effective procedures and forms, setting priorities and goals, finding and keeping an effective staff, and getting the most from your record-keeping system. With the help of this book you should be able to spend more time away from the office, and more time in the field.
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Project
Scheduling and Management for Construction |
Today's Successful Project Planning, Scheduling, and Management Techniques - clearly explained and illustrated. Completely Revised and Updated version. A comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow guide to construction project scheduling and control - from vital project management principles through the latest scheduling, tracking, and controlling techniques. The author explains how to think through and prepare a schedule, then use it effectively.
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Scheduling with SureTrak
- Updated to Release 3.0 |
Scheduling with SureTrak, 2nd Edition utilizes the latest screen captures from the premier construction scheduling software on the market as visuals to illustrate all facets of project control. Its distinctive coverage of construction scheduling includes the traditional theory associated with planning, scheduling, and controlling construction projects, along with the actual use of Primavera’s SureTrak software into these applications. This book not only exposes learners to on-screen images but also shows them how to manipulate hard copy prints for exceptional communication and demonstration results.
Management |
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Basic Construction Management |
Today’s construction projects are more complex than ever. Managing these projects has also become more complex. This perennial NAHB bestseller, now in its third edition, addresses the issues facing today’s construction manager. New managers can use this as a great training tool. More experienced superintendents can brush up on the latest techniques and technologies.
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Be a
Successful Building Contractor |
All the ins and outs of starting and running a profitable enterprise in today's construction market. - Packed with fast track building code facts, tips and techniques, and quick calculations, this practical resource helps building contractors define their business requirements, select a business structure, manage jobs efficiently, locate desirable building lots, build on speculation, computerize their operations, understand financial transactions, hire top-notch employees--and avoid common pitfalls.
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Be a
Successful Remodeling Contractor |
AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO A CAREER IN THE LUCRATIVE REMODELING BUSINESS - The Third Edition of R. Dodge Woodson's - Be a Successful Building Contractor will give you the business savvy you need to set up and manage a profit-making enterprise! Packed with dozens of handy business forms, the book will help you define your business requirements-find desirable building lots-build on speculation-computerize your operations-track financial transactions-hire top-notch employees-and much more.
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Builders Essentials: Best Business
Practices for Builders & Remodelers |
A proven and easy-to-use checklist system to help builders and remodelers reach their full potential for success and profit. Includes over 40 checklists and a dedicated Web site. A special Crisis Control section gives you quick advice and expert tips for solving emergencies and common problems on the job--and helps you learn what you can do to avoid conflicts in the future.
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Construction
Inspection Manual |
The accepted national guide used by the construction industry for improvement of specifications and inspection procedures. Features a complete series of comprehensive checklists covering all elements of construction. Includes hundreds of checklists, forms, charts, and tables. Expanded appendices, with extensive graphics, charts and tables. An extremely valuable reference for the inspector, architect, engineer, contractor, specification writer, construction manager, owner and facilities manager.
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