Whether your job is painting 62,000-square-feet of office space or figuring out how to hang drywall upside down on an eight-story overhang, making sure every job is more profitable than the last is never simple or easy. Even when your estimators do a great job and you’re winning lots of work, your construction business can still struggle with profitability.
This is especially true if you rush to bid job after job repeating the same mistakes, project after project. Did you forget and include the unreliable supplier or the contractor who always runs late? No contractor wants to see the last five percent of any job drain 50 percent of your profits. Winning so many jobs that you can’t properly manage them is one way to end up in this situation.