Top 5 Techniques for Successfully Managing Your Subcontractors

As a construction professional, you already know the value and importance of superior subcontractor management. Often, their success becomes your success. Much of your day-to-day life is focused on managing subcontractor work and maintaining subcontractor relationships.

Subcontractors are critical to you and your company because:

  • You can’t keep up with staff demands for growth, so subcontracted scopes allow you to execute more work.
  • They become long-term partners in your success because you trust the numbers they give you at estimate, and you’re confident they will meet these goals during construction.
  • They provide a specialty service you don’t use on many projects.
  • Whether due to locality or specialization, they can perform some work more economically than you can, which increases your chances of winning the project and meeting your budget.

There is certainly a large amount of information and advice on how to effectively manage subcontractors, but some of the best will always be your own hard-earned lessons.

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