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Why building firms want a quick benchmark estimate
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5 ways you can have a better work/life balance
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How to look after your mental health in construction
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The pitfalls of creating estimates yourself
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Five reasons to outsource your estimates for construction work
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The HBXL Profit Protect Service for beating inflation
Why building firms want a quick benchmark estimate
Want an accurate indication of the cost of a building job without having the full works? The HBXL Estimating Service offers a ‘light touch’ benchmark estimate. It gives you a useful gauge of your overall build costs – and is definitely a cost-effective way to price up a project to help you or the customer…
5 ways you can have a better work/life balance
It might be due to having ‘too much work on’. It could be it to hit a deadline. Or is due to staff shortages? Most of us are guilty of spending too much time at work more often than we’d care to admit. Whatever the reasons behind it, devoting too much of our lives at…
How to look after your mental health in construction
The record is poor with mental health in construction. Tragically, an average of two workers in the sector take their lives every single day in the UK. Data from the Office for National Statistics covering England and Wales shows that workers in construction are now nearly four times more likely to take their own lives…
The pitfalls of creating estimates yourself
Estimating is not only one of the most important jobs in construction, but it’s also one of the toughest. Profits can be made on how accurate your estimates are, and likewise, money can also be lost if they don’t match up to your final project costs closely enough. Quite honestly, there are so many drawbacks…
Five reasons to outsource your estimates for construction work
Outsource your estimates. Occasionally or all the time. They can be for extensions, renovations, loft conversions, garage builds and new builds. Why would you outsource? We’ve got five good reasons: Time savings When you outsource your estimating tasks to the HBXL Estimating Service, you free up time and energy to focus on your core business….
The HBXL Profit Protect Service for beating inflation
How well do you protect your profit? Will the profit margin on your projects still be the same when you start the work as the figures you submitted in your original quotations? With escalating inflation, a bag of cement is unlikely to cost the same in six, nine or 12 months time when you get…
