10 Apr

Top Tips for Growing Your Construction Company

No matter what your business is, the key to growth is an almost unstoppable ambitious drive. While you may have all the know-how in the world, if you haven’t got the motivation to push your business forward you’ll stumble at the very first hurdle.

All the largest businesses in the world, from Facebook to Virgin, Apple to Bechtel, weren’t overnight successes. Their founders all had the ambition that was needed to push their businesses toward success, plus a few key tips. You may have the ambition, too, but you’ll need the focus these tips provide to truly excel. As such, here you can find our top tips for growing your construction company!

An Industrious Approach

Ensure any and all obstacles potentially impeding growth are removed by working diligently in everything you do. If you commit yourself to working as industriously and as carefully as possible, your business is on the right track to success. Ultimately, this is a positive state of mind, but it is essential to success. However, there are some key areas to focus industriously upon.

Thoroughly read over any contracts and paperwork that comes across your desk, especially the small print. In this way, you can ensure that you don’t accidentally sign off on a bad business venture. You can also keep a close eye on your costs, ensuring they don’t spiral out of control.

Meticulously plan out each project and show how each of these projects fits into your company’s whole business plan. Each project should be treated like a stepping stone on your route to success. But that isn’t to say you can skip the graft on each project; plan even the smallest elements to build up your reputation as a conscientious and reliable business partner and further work will come flooding in later, too.

Invest in the Latest Technology

In order to compete with other construction companies, you’ll need to invest in all the latest technologies. Failure to do so will see your company fall short as other companies outperform your own. In 2017, digital technology is poised to finally take the construction industry by storm. Fortunately, it isn’t too late to invest in all the latest technology to ensure your company holds its own.

In regards to software, there a number of programs out there that can improve your business tenfold. On the one hand, software focusing on accounting, pay, saConstruction Technologyfety inspections and more is excellent for making your business more financially efficient. On the other, you can improve the quality of the work you deliver by investing in Building Information Modelling (BIM). The BIM program creates 3D models of building plans, allowing you to reduce errors and bring a level of care and detail to your work unprecedented until now.

In a similar vein, investments in hardware are of equal importance. Gear is constantly refined and perfected, improving both the safety and precision of instruments. If your hardware and tools are particularly dated, you should definitely invest in new tools to see you through 2017.

Behind Every Triumph…

It doesn’t matter if you have all the right gadgets and attitudes in your company if you don’t have the right staff to pull off the project. Behind every triumphant business venture is a team of hard-working, knowledgeable and expert
staff
who believe in both what they’re doing and the company itself.

It simply isn’t possible to make your company succeed alConstructionl by yourself, no matter how hands-on you like to be. Some of the responsibility needs to be divested to others in the company as your workload expands. As the business gets busier, you’ll need a team of trustworthy, competent individuals to take over some of your tasks in order to maintain your company’s high standards. If the staff you hire are specialists in fields other than your own, all the better!

But it isn’t necessarily just great staff that’s the key to success – morale also plays a major role in success. Keeping up morale in a company can seem a difficult task, but you’ll no doubt reap the rewards doing so. One of the greatest benefits of excellent company morale is increased productivity. Any increase in productivity eventually sees a return on profitability, so not only is it good for the atmosphere in a company, it’s great for the business as a whole, too!


Hitchcock & King are the premier suppliers of construction materials throughout London. We have served the capital for over 40 years, supplying a range of high-quality timber and builders’ materials, tools and more. We also offer fast, reliable delivery services, ensuring your projects are always completed on time and with the best materials available. Be sure to contact our professional team today to find out more!