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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
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How to improve your estimating and your jobs
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…
How to improve your estimating and your jobs
Sit back and watch this hugely useful broadcast hosted by Joanna Mulgrew, Operations Director for the HBXL Group and Simon Lazarus of the Better Business Group, a much respected partner of HBXL. Simon has worked with thousands of building firms, helping them to go after projects that would make them the money they deserved. Over…
WILL BUILDING MATERIAL COSTS GO DOWN IN 2022 IN THE UK?
Building material costs have been rising for months. Shortages are biting hard. Delays are difficult to manage. There’s so much to think about right now. What to do? Read on… There’s no indication that inflation will improve any time soon. In July the highest rise since records was reported with 20% inflation year on year….
