Construction Terms You Should Know
As a project owner, you may occasionally find your contractor using terms unfamiliar to you. You can enhance your understanding and, ultimately, the success of your project, by getting conversant with the lingo.
As a project owner, you may occasionally find your contractor using terms unfamiliar to you. You can enhance your understanding and, ultimately, the success of your project, by getting conversant with the lingo.
Effective jobsite safety begins before the workday starts—through comprehensive worker training and communication. Employees must be taught basic safety measures, such as wearing appropriate gear, proper use of ladders and scaffolding, and how to handle tools and equipment.
The Rainwater Construction Company is pleased to announce it has begun construction on a new, hyper-efficient 45,000 square foot building for Swift Atlanta. The building is the eighth collaboration between Swift and Rainwater and the latest in a relationship spanning more than 25 years.
In the twenty-first century, we’ve become used to having technological tools that do a lot of our work for us. We use smart technology in everything from our cars to our cellphones. How much more important is it to apply it in the places we live and work in?
When people choose to work in the construction industry, they embark on a career path that provides a level of upward mobility that is disappearing from many other industries. On top of opportunities to build a solid base early, high demand for construction can ensure a stable and high-earning career long term.
Design build is a method of project planning and completion that combines the roles of designer and contractor into a single team. As part of the same service, the two teams cooperate from the project’s inception, and act as a “single point of responsibility” for the owner.
As the United States economy continues to rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic, many industry professionals are asking how this unprecedented period of time will affect the construction industry. Read on to find out which sectors are seeing a construction boom and what factors are posing a challenge to the Atlanta commercial construction market in 2022.
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is an accounting practice used to determine the direct and indirect costs of any project. In commercial construction, TCO involves analyzing how the decisions made during construction will impact the initial cost of building and the future costs that result from those decisions. Find out more
The Rainwater Construction Company is pleased to announce that we are now a part of the Fleming Construction Group family of companies. The Fleming Construction Group, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma is a large-scale commercial construction company, who – like Rainwater – has a multi-generational history of service and community-building.
The Rainwater Construction Company is pleased to announce the launch of our new website. Our new site is designed to help our current and future clients understand our services, review our project portfolio and deliver timely information on happenings within our company and within the commercial construction industry in general