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Practical writing on GPS time tracking, payroll accuracy, and running construction crews with less paperwork.
September 15, 2026
Per-square-foot pricing is an output, not an input. Here is the bottom-up way to price a paver patio: spoil volume, compacted base, pavers with waste, burdened crew hours, disposal and overhead, with a worked 400 square foot example and the math for what happens when you price it at $30 a foot.
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September 14, 2026
Daily overtime after 8, double time after 12, the seventh day, four 10s, prevailing wage jobs, the regular rate, and what the Labor Commissioner charges when a crew's hours are wrong.
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September 14, 2026
The bid, line by line: scope, yardage, delivered concrete, the lines that are not the mud, crew labor at the loaded rate, overhead, margin, and the per-foot sanity check.
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September 8, 2026
The bid-side math: labor hours at burdened rates, materials with waste, the direct lines everyone forgets, overhead, and the cost-to-price step, with one worked re-roof.
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September 7, 2026
What belongs in the cost of a pour, the numbers that hide from concrete contractors specifically, and one worked flatwork job showing where the margin really went.
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September 5, 2026
The six-step math for what a construction job actually made: burdened labor, real material costs, overhead share, and true margin, with a worked example.
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September 4, 2026
The whole system: five cost buckets, the labor-burden math most bids get wrong, markup versus margin, and one fully worked job so you can see where profit hides.
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July 14, 2026
What GPS time tracking does on a real job site, what it fixes, and what a good system deliberately refuses to do.
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