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Redefining the client experience: How Bradford Custom Homes built a more transparent, scalable business
...where growth starts to expose operational gaps. Before we get into how Bradford Custom Homes solved this, watch how they redefined the client experience with Buildertrend in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAJbsaXtmw From the trades to multimillion-dollar homes Brad Robinson didn’t start with large custom homes. His path looked like most builders who built their business...
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What’s the #1 cause of residential structural failures?
Improperly compacted structural fill material is the No. 1 cause of residential structural failures. It can be a builder’s worst enemy, more so than expansive or soft organic soils, improper drainage or poor engineering and framing practices. What does that mean, how does that happen and what can you do to avoid it? What is...
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Live from IBS with Brad Leavitt: A Finer Touch Construction
...Brad Leavitt: Yeah, absolutely. We continue to do residential and commercial, that’s kind of our portfolio there. So we have some fun commercial ones. We’re doing some land development, which is our first one. So joint venture there. And for any of the followers that seen what we’re doing, we post about that, so that’s...
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Still writing proposals from scratch? Why you need a construction proposal template
...made, in many cases, the final version becomes the construction contract. Construction proposal vs. construction contract While the terms are often used interchangeably, a construction proposal template and a construction contract serve different purposes in the building process. A proposal is designed to help win the job and align expectations, while a contract is the...
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Combatting the labor shortage: How to secure the future of construction
...talked about on the panel, and the topic for today’s conversation, which is the labor shortage. What’s the current landscape of the labor shortage and the residential and commercial construction industries where you guys focus? What are you seeing? Is it improving, a steady decline or where are we currently at? Ashley Kuhn: It’s a...
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Inside Buildertrend: The easier way to search
...the key purpose of that is saving users time. Right? That’s what the search is. It’s a ubiquitous feature that just exists everywhere in the world. There’s a sea of platforms and tools and apps that we all use, and they all have a fairly robust search tool. Again, Buildertrend just hasn’t had that for...
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Navigating challenging times with the co-CEOs and co-founders of Buildertrend
...them. And so when we started this business in 2006, our primary customer was a homebuilder. Today in our platform, they’re just one of many of our types of customers. Dan Houghton: We serve homebuilders, re-modelers and improvement contractors, commercial contractors, specialty contractors, and you name it really. And that was really born out of…...
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2024 Election: What’s at stake for the construction industry?
With the 2024 election, home builders are bracing for big changes. The new president could shake up tax laws, ramp up infrastructure spending or tweak environmental rules – all of which could hit your business. While builders are pros at adapting, staying on top of these shifts is the key to thriving. Our hosts of...
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