Starting your very own construction company can be a lucrative venture right off the bat as long as your business has been structured well and it secures the needed financial backing. When it comes to financial backing, surety bonding will be one of the most essential to helping your company secure ...
Month: February 2017
Qualifications and Contract Sizes: Preparing for Your Next Project
We have already begun to cover the Miller Act’s contractual obligations construction companies face when trying to bid on publicly funded projects. While this information is important for construction companies, they face another problem when trying to comply with bonding requirements: how to incr...
Georgia’s Little Miller Act
A few weeks ago, we covered the United States Miller Act, a set of federal statutes that requires certain types of surety bonding for all construction projects of a certain value. The U.S. Miller Act is critical to the stability of publicly-funded construction projects while keeping costs and...
The Five Most Common Construction Injury Causes, And How to Prevent Them
Construction is an inherently dangerous industry. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 937 total deaths occurred in the construction industry last year, more than any other industry. While this accident rate of 10.1 fatal injuries per 100,000 full-time workers was lower than other...