Books For Construction Contracting
This catalogue page has our recommended law books for planning, starting, building, maintaining, and running a construction contracting business.
Knowing and understands the many laws and regulations that effect your business can be challenging to most of us. Understanding the laws and regulations effecting your business is important. This knowledge is required for organizing your
business and running it on a daily basis. In addition, it is really important to know when you must seek your corporate lawyers on a matter or two.
These books cover starting, running, improving, and maintaining a good sound business. In addition, several books cover understanding and working with business regulations and business taxes.
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Books For Construction Contracting

- Handbook of Construction Contracting: Plans, Specs, Building, Vol. 1
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- -Jack Payne Jones / Paperback 409 pages / November 1986
This complete guide is vol 1 of a 2-volumm book set covers how to start and run a construction business, covers the pros and cons of different aspects, what records to keep, how to read and understand house plans and specification and avoiding many problems. All aspects of construction are covered in detail, including all-weather wood foundations, practical math for the job site, and elementary surveying.
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- Handbook of Construction Contracting: Estimating, Bidding, Scheduling, Vol. 2
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- -W. Dean Brown / Paperback 320 pages / Published January 1987
This is vol 2 of a 2-vol book set that takes the guess work out of estimating, designing, and planning a construction project. Whether building as a tradesman or contractor, or perhaps as a homeowner wishing to contract the building of his house, these two book set are a must for clear expert instruction. Written to save money, time, and eliminates guesswork.
This book gets to the point with the basics showing how to do a job in detail with clear, concise instructions and drawings showing details that ensures professional performance. A must for a builder or tradesman engaged in the construction trades.
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- Construction Estimating Reference Data/Book and Disk
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- -Ed Sarviel / Paperback 384 pages, Bk&Disk edition / Published March 1993
This useful book uses "unit pricing" or "flat rate pricing," which are helpful ways to estimate
a project costs when you are sure the pricing reflects your material and labor costs plus the correct markup for your business. Use the sample cases and compare your actual costs to a listed unit price. You can then increase or decrease the listed prices to reflect your situation.
New home building generally costs less than remodeling and repair work. Any unit price process
has to take into account the particular demands of the project.
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- Construction Operations Manual of Policies and Procedures
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- -Andrew M. Civitello / Hardcover 400 pages, 3 rd edition / Published July 2000
This is an updated and expanded business-boosting reference manual that covers all phases of construction and operations management. Including procedures and step-by-step details for successfully managing construction operations. Covers company methods, strategies and tactics of organization and quality assurance. Includes company and project administration, contracts and construction contracts, project engineering, site superintendent, safety and loss control, and planning, scheduling, and funds analysis. The manual also features policies, procedures, and forms for all administrative clerical functions organized operationally for easy reference.
Includes forms, ready-to-copy letters and other templates.
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- How to Form a Corporation, LLC or Partnership in Washington
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- -W. Dean Brown / Paperback 260 pages / Published April 2000
This guide book explains the basics for starting your own small business in the State of Washington. The author makes the basics of corporate law easy to understand. Keep in mind the author is not advising you legally, but is identifying steps that you would need to correctly start a small corporation. In some cases you may still need a lawyer, but this book can help you to identify the key areas that you may need clarification and assistance. Armed with the information
in this book you will be able to talk about the issues with your CPA and Attorney when needed.
Includes corporate bylaws and many of the required forms.
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- Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
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- -Cyril Harris / Paperback 592 pages / Published February 1983
This massive comprehensive compendium by a noted architectural historian contains over 2000 line drawings, and clear, concise definitions for over 5000 important terms relating to the architectural achievements of a great variety of world cultures, ancient to modern.
The definitions are so clearly written in practical, easily understandable language. Includes cutaway views, close-ups of intricate details, precisely rendered plans for many famed structures.
The illustrations are so detailed and clean that minute discrepancies between one term and another are easily identifiable.
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