I have e-mail folder trees set up along the following lines:
My Company ID (I own 2)
-Client
--Project
Works well. Comm history is right there in the folder. Forces you to clean out the junk.
Update: I laid down the law. I told them they could forget about me doing any more work until a policy is in place. I make more money with my one-man engineering firm anyway. I told them to stop telling people we do engineering work, take engineering out of them name, I'm going to cancel our...
One of the companies I own is a mechanical contracting company. We have "engineering" in the name. I'm the responsible PE in charge on the certificate of authorization. I just found out today that in a cost cutting move, the two other partners (non PE's) allowed the professional liability...
1. NJ, PA, DE
2. 3-4 calls a week
4. 40-60 hrs a week
5. Up
I set a record with last week's invoicing, and invoiced out $8k. Normally it's 2-3k. I have 9 open inquiries on my desk right now, and about $10k booked for May (I specialize in small gigs). Recession is over in my area.
Keep postive, stay motivated. Finding work is getting easier as the economy picks up. I've landed $24,600 in contracts since January 8th, and the phone keeps ringing every day. Plus I hear this week on a long term support services agreement for $6k a month for 18 months (fingers and toes are...
I had an employee (project manager) quit fall 2008. His wife had passed away 7 years ago, and his daughter (only child) had just moved away to college, he got soaked when the stock market went in the toilet that fall, and his elderly neighbor had cancer and he would take her for treatment, plus...
If your forte is wastewater, any developer, any manufacturing site, any apartment complex, any large development with on-site septic, any large commercial facility, these are all potential clients. Make contacts with the owners of septic companies, compliance management companies (if they don't...
My field is facility support (utilities, mechanical, structural). My background is facility engineering. I also have training in water systems (WFI, RO, DI), so I also do a bunch of small stuff with the state regarding small non-community water systems. I also cut my teeth doing construction...
I got started in freelance in 2007. My other company I own concentrates on commercial construction, and as the red flags went up in the latter half of 07, I started up a consulting firm and put some feelers out. At first I had small goals: make enough on the side to cover a car payment or two...
I can't take credit for this, although the drawing gave a big hint. I found this on the internet:
According to page 1-4 of AISC's "Manual" (6th Edition), 14B17.2 is classified as a "light beam", produced by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. From pages 1-22 & 1-23 for a designation 14x4B at 17.2...
Client wants to install octagonal seat wall with 36 inch footings. Issue is proximity of wall footing to septic tank. One of the corners of the tank nearest the house is exposed in the trench for the footings. (Long story, but client got permit for simple seat wall, then the design grew into...
Ray,
We started using a web based project management site about six months ago. Best thing we ever did. I can see where everything's at. Very WBS oriented. Gantt charts. Calendars. We have our field crew schedule posted there for the project managers to see and modify. Auto e-mail...
Here's my story. It's all true. Nothing made up. Movies were made of lesser tales. Put your seatbelt on and read away.
I earned a 4 yr degree in ME, and chose to spend a year in grad school because I had some money tucked away from my college-era job. After that ran out, I got a job at a...
What's a rack array? Could that be one rack array is one stand alone pair of uprights and 3 tiers? Or is a rack array 20 uprights all connected together with 3 tiers each? All of the pallet rack and material handling industry web sites define a "rack section" as two uprights with tier beams...
In NFPA 30, they talk about storage rack sections:
From the 1996 edition:
"4-4.4.4 Total quantity of liquids stored in a liquid warehouse shall not be restricted. However, the storage heights and maximum quantity per pile or rack section for unprotected storage shall comply with Table...
I wasn't too clear, was I. This is AWS D1.1 welding. It's a cell tower. I've heard of the NY DOT requiring special certification for trucks, but not private structures. I'm going to call the state tomorrow and see if they'll accept AWS' SWPS' and a 485 demonstration in lieu of a duplicate...
