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Andrew Langstone

Quit Talking About Revenue and Start Talking About Profit

If you’ve ever compared notes with someone in the construction industry about the size of your respective companies, inevitably you start…

Jun 23

Quit Talking About Revenue and Start Talking About Profit

Jun 23

Andrew Langstone

Creating Ideal Project and Customer Profiles in Construction

There are a set of very important decisions that face general contractors that are often not given a lot of thought — the question being…

Nov 16, 2023

Creating Ideal Project and Customer Profiles in Construction

Nov 16, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Beyond Builders: Unveiling the Secrets of Successful Construction Companies

Sales is the function by which a company acquires revenue. Sales are critically important — without revenue, the lights aren’t going to…

Nov 9, 2023

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Nov 9, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Everyone is a Niche Contractor

Most industries with similar scale to the construction industry have 800 pound gorillas who anchor their industries. These companies set…

May 26, 2023

Everyone is a Niche Contractor

May 26, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Forecasting Costs on Construction Projects

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the different types of costs that general contractors encounter on their projects. In that…

May 17, 2023

Forecasting Costs on Construction Projects

May 17, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Customer Empathy — What is it and Why it Matters

I’m going to start this article with a story… I worked with a project manger who once had a contract with a private developer to build a…

May 12, 2023

Customer Empathy — What is it and Why it Matters

May 12, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Office Real Estate: The Iceberg Dead Ahead

I’m writing this in early May 2023. The depths of the COVID-19 are behind us and we’re now solidly in a post-COVID world… The pandemic…

May 4, 2023

Office Real Estate: The Iceberg Dead Ahead

May 4, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Self-Performing: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Most commercial general contractors in North America today focus entirely on managing and coordinating the work of others. Beyond a small…

Apr 27, 2023

Self-Performing: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Apr 27, 2023

Andrew Langstone

8 Ways to Improve Communications on your Construction Project

I like to think of the construction team working on a commercial project as an orchestra: the consultants are the composers who drafted the…

Apr 21, 2023

8 Ways to Improve Communications on your Construction Project

Apr 21, 2023

Andrew Langstone

You Don’t Have Enough People (and you never will)

Managing construction projects is highly complex — there are lots of moving parts, people come and go throughout a project, and the…

Apr 18, 2023

You Don’t Have Enough People (and you never will)

Apr 18, 2023

Andrew Langstone

Andrew Langstone

I write about commercial construction - best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies. For more go to andrewlangstone.com or pursuitzen.com

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