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February 22, 2025

5 Tips on the Art and Science of Highway Cost Estimating

Intelligent Bidding

How Often Do You Visit the Field?

Just Be A Good Human Who Pays Attention

What's In Your Control?

How I Got Six Weeks of My Life Back

Watch the Costs

Cost vs. Margin: The Discipline

Forget New Year's Resolutions. Do This Instead.

The Meeting We're Never Too Busy For (That Saves You Later)

The Day I Built an App in 20 Minutes

The Man Who Builds Billion-Dollar Companies in “Boring” Industries

The Card Pete Kiewit Carried in His Wallet

How Ames Won Hundreds of Millions By Moving Dirt Nobody Paid Them For

Tough Jobs Make Tough Contractors

Why Top Contractors Schedule Time to Do Nothing

🦺 Software Is Becoming Labor

Why Your Grandmother's Advice Still Beats the Latest Management Fad

My Roots

90 Minutes Back: How One Estimator Stopped Doing Data Entry

40 lessons from construction (at 40)

Plan the Work, Work the Plan

Why Paying On Time Is Your Secret Weapon

11 Habits That Separate Great Estimators From Everyone Else

Never Miss Another Deadline: Why We Built Our Spec Review Agent

The Secret I've Been Keeping: Robotics Are Here

Good Area Manager, Bad Area Manager

Civil Estimators, Meet Your New AI Superpower

We Built AI That Actually Understands Civil Estimating

Why Most Prime-Sub Relationships Fail (And How to Fix Them)

Estimating Ain't Bidding

Why Your Next Big Project Should Start With a Press Release

What's Possible vs What's In The Bid

The Art of the Takeoff

A Beginner's Guide to AI for Civil Contractors

Celebrating Your Most Important Asset

How Not To Hire

The Real Measure of Success: How Many People Have You Developed?

The Innovator’s Dilemma in Civil Construction: AI Will Reshape Everything

The Big Job Playbook

Cash Is King

Why Costco Is Stealing Your Next Superintendent

Why Horizontal Contractors Need a CRM

🧠 The Estimator of the Future Isn’t a Spreadsheet Wizard - It’s a Data Analyst with an AI Copilot

The Edge Podcast - Making Work Fun with Jay Winford

Losing a Bid at 0% Profit

What Field Crews Need to Know About Your Estimate

My First Bid as a Paving Estimator

If it ain’t broke, then break it

A Woman Who Paved The Way

Relentless Bidding

Bid Reviews That Don't Suck

The Most Heartfelt Compliment I Ever Received

Working for the Wrong Crowd

Decoding Construction Bidding: The Margin Conundrum

7 Things Every Estimator Should Know and a Bonus Challenge

Getting out of the office to see the work

5 Tips on the Art and Science of Highway Cost Estimating

The Call Every Construction Leader Dreads (And How to Handle It)

“You Either Win Or You Learn” - Jalen Hurts

Consistent Bid Preparation and Review

What it takes to win: Segment and target

How Emery Sapp & Sons Gains a Competitive Edge with Edgevanta

The Roulette of Roadwork - IDIQ Contracting

Why preparation prevails in the project acquisition process

A framework for learning from competition

Brutal facts and learning from competition

Look Good Feel Good

Resilience in close bidding defeat

The Two Pizza Rule

The Zillow of Highway Work

Giving Away My Legos

The Secret Sauce of Great Contractors: Growing Your Own Leaders

Becoming a Master Observer, Like Peyton

11 bits of unsolicited highway bidding advice

Lump sum and fixed price bidding: Scope matters

The Hidden Cost of 'We'll Fix it Later'

A+B bidding and its awesomeness

Highway Bidding: It's all about the dollars

Market Analytics and AI

The Edge Podcast - Building Palmetto: Shawn Godwin's Journey from 25 to 1,000

Goals

Picking up the phone and talking to vendors

Inclusion and debate to de-risk bids and make reviews more engaging

Peter Kiewit's Motto

Sam Walton's Playbook for Outpacing the Competition

Thinking, Fast and Slow, About True Cost

"All the Pieces Matter"

De-risking public bids through deep understanding of contracts, specs, drawings, and owners

When They Decide to Leave

Why preparation prevails in the project acquisition process

How do highway contractors succeed in the project acquisition cycle?

The Number That Almost Got Me Fired

The Edge Podcast Launches: Exploring Leadership and Legacy with Patrick Nelson

Breaking up your company

Why Doubling Up Is The Future of Estimating

Skin in the Game: Why Your Estimators Need to Build What They Bid

Good superintendent, bad superintendent

How to Guarantee Your Family Business Fails

The Problem With Bid Reviews & How to Solve Them

Spotlight Series - Dan Garcia: Solving Workforce Challenges at C.W. Matthews Contracting 🏗️

Let the robots do your dirty work