Builders Essentials: Best Business Practices for Builders & Remodelers
Easy To Use Checklist System to Help Builders & Remodelers Reach for Success and Profit

By Thomas N. Frisby

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.

This unique text combines expert advice and tips for builders and remodelers for all aspects of running your company with over 40 easy-to-use checklists. This hands-on workbook is designed to help you manage your construction business better, and covers topics including:

• Increasing your revenue and keeping more of your profit.
• Planning for long-term growth and reaching your goals for the future.
• Ensuring quality workmanship.
• Managing subcontractors and crews.
• Using technology to increase productivity.
• Establishing company policies and procedures.
• Staying out of legal and financial trouble.
• Creating thorough and accurate contract documents and estimates.
• How to properly set up and plan projects.

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.

The book's dedicated Web site provides all of the checklists in an easy-to-use downloadable format.

About The Author:

Thomas N. Frisby is an attorney with an engineering, financial, and teaching background who has consulted with contractors across the nation. He specializes in assisting contractors to become more successful and profitable, and his management concepts are widely used.

Mr. Frisby has taught courses including contract law and management, dispute resolution, strategic planning, human resources management, and workplace environment at the Texas A & M Construction Education Program and Clemson University Division of Building Science.

Paperback, 240 pages