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February 22, 2025
5 Tips on the Art and Science of Highway Cost Estimating
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Intelligent Bidding
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How Often Do You Visit the Field?
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Just Be A Good Human Who Pays Attention
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What's In Your Control?
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How I Got Six Weeks of My Life Back
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Watch the Costs
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Cost vs. Margin: The Discipline
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Forget New Year's Resolutions. Do This Instead.
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The Meeting We're Never Too Busy For (That Saves You Later)
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The Day I Built an App in 20 Minutes
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The Man Who Builds Billion-Dollar Companies in “Boring” Industries
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The Card Pete Kiewit Carried in His Wallet
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How Ames Won Hundreds of Millions By Moving Dirt Nobody Paid Them For
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Tough Jobs Make Tough Contractors
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Why Top Contractors Schedule Time to Do Nothing
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🦺 Software Is Becoming Labor
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Why Your Grandmother's Advice Still Beats the Latest Management Fad
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My Roots
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90 Minutes Back: How One Estimator Stopped Doing Data Entry
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40 lessons from construction (at 40)
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Plan the Work, Work the Plan
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Why Paying On Time Is Your Secret Weapon
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11 Habits That Separate Great Estimators From Everyone Else
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Never Miss Another Deadline: Why We Built Our Spec Review Agent
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The Secret I've Been Keeping: Robotics Are Here
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Good Area Manager, Bad Area Manager
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Civil Estimators, Meet Your New AI Superpower
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We Built AI That Actually Understands Civil Estimating
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Why Most Prime-Sub Relationships Fail (And How to Fix Them)
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Estimating Ain't Bidding
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Why Your Next Big Project Should Start With a Press Release
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What's Possible vs What's In The Bid
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The Art of the Takeoff
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A Beginner's Guide to AI for Civil Contractors
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Celebrating Your Most Important Asset
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How Not To Hire
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The Real Measure of Success: How Many People Have You Developed?
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The Innovator’s Dilemma in Civil Construction: AI Will Reshape Everything
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The Big Job Playbook
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Cash Is King
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Why Costco Is Stealing Your Next Superintendent
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Why Horizontal Contractors Need a CRM
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🧠 The Estimator of the Future Isn’t a Spreadsheet Wizard - It’s a Data Analyst with an AI Copilot
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The Edge Podcast - Making Work Fun with Jay Winford
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Losing a Bid at 0% Profit
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What Field Crews Need to Know About Your Estimate
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My First Bid as a Paving Estimator
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If it ain’t broke, then break it
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A Woman Who Paved The Way
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Relentless Bidding
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Bid Reviews That Don't Suck
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The Most Heartfelt Compliment I Ever Received
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Working for the Wrong Crowd
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Decoding Construction Bidding: The Margin Conundrum
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7 Things Every Estimator Should Know and a Bonus Challenge
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Getting out of the office to see the work
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5 Tips on the Art and Science of Highway Cost Estimating
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The Call Every Construction Leader Dreads (And How to Handle It)
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“You Either Win Or You Learn” - Jalen Hurts
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Consistent Bid Preparation and Review
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What it takes to win: Segment and target
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How Emery Sapp & Sons Gains a Competitive Edge with Edgevanta
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The Roulette of Roadwork - IDIQ Contracting
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Why preparation prevails in the project acquisition process
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A framework for learning from competition
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Brutal facts and learning from competition
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Look Good Feel Good
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Resilience in close bidding defeat
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The Two Pizza Rule
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The Zillow of Highway Work
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Giving Away My Legos
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The Secret Sauce of Great Contractors: Growing Your Own Leaders
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Becoming a Master Observer, Like Peyton
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11 bits of unsolicited highway bidding advice
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Lump sum and fixed price bidding: Scope matters
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The Hidden Cost of 'We'll Fix it Later'
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A+B bidding and its awesomeness
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Highway Bidding: It's all about the dollars
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Market Analytics and AI
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The Edge Podcast - Building Palmetto: Shawn Godwin's Journey from 25 to 1,000
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Goals
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Picking up the phone and talking to vendors
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Inclusion and debate to de-risk bids and make reviews more engaging
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Peter Kiewit's Motto
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Sam Walton's Playbook for Outpacing the Competition
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Thinking, Fast and Slow, About True Cost
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"All the Pieces Matter"
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De-risking public bids through deep understanding of contracts, specs, drawings, and owners
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When They Decide to Leave
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Why preparation prevails in the project acquisition process
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How do highway contractors succeed in the project acquisition cycle?
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The Number That Almost Got Me Fired
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The Edge Podcast Launches: Exploring Leadership and Legacy with Patrick Nelson
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Breaking up your company
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Why Doubling Up Is The Future of Estimating
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Skin in the Game: Why Your Estimators Need to Build What They Bid
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Good superintendent, bad superintendent
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How to Guarantee Your Family Business Fails
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The Problem With Bid Reviews & How to Solve Them
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Spotlight Series - Dan Garcia: Solving Workforce Challenges at C.W. Matthews Contracting 🏗️
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