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[Jobsite](   [This Week On The Jobsite]( [In With The Old]( “I think what is happening is that increasingly more people are becoming more interested in living in inner-city areas, and there’s a real demand for both commercial and residential structures.” [CM Construction looks to historic buildings to fill the demand of city living. Find out how.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How LinkedIn Can Help Your Business Grow]( “LinkedIn is the only social media that we really recommend from a business development standpoint for contractors." [Experts agree, these are the 3 things you should be doing on LinkedIn in order to win more work...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What’s behind the construction industry’s productivity problem?]( According to a McKinsey Global Institute report released in February, the construction industry’s global labor-productivity grew only 1% each year over the past two decades—much lower than other industries. [So what can be done?]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Paperless Construction Industry]( If paper is the backbone of the entire operation, which is the case in many businesses, it carries numerous–and potentially serious–liabilities. According to Construction Business Owner, 70% of businesses would fail outright within 3 weeks due to a catastrophic loss of paper documents in a fire or flood. [It turns out, businesses ARE worth the paper they’re printed on. And that may be all they’re worth.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another Good Quarter for the U.S. Economy]( The economy expanded by 3% during the third quarter of 2017 on an annualized basis. This follows a second quarter during which the economy grew 3.1%. [These numbers and a lot of other numbers people care about. Memorize just one to sound like the smartest person at happy hour tonight.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Robots Swarm Construction]( Many species of insects are tremendously skilled builders with an innate gift for their trade. Ants and termites build structurally sound and dizzyingly complex structures from dirt, suitable for housing thousands or millions of their ranks. Even spiders are builders, creating geometrically perfect webs as a trap for prey. [Now, scientists are looking to such insects to model a new form of semi-autonomous robots.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did you catch last week's #JobsiteFF?]( Because humor is important for your everyday health! [Get your laugh on here...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- How much are you losing to rework? [Sources say]( can be anywhere from nine to thirty percet of your profits [top-six-rework-offenders]( [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google+]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [SUBSCRIBE TO THE JOBSITE]( Manage your Jobsite preferences  |  Unsubscribe Procore, 6309 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria, CA 93013 [Unsubscribe](