What Are You Really Paying a General Contractor For

About this episode

Bill Reid discusses the importance of project management and expertise in hiring a general contractor.

General contractor project management is what you're really paying for — and most homeowners don't realize it until a project starts to go sideways. In this episode of Your Home Building Coach, Bill Reid goes deep on the first two pillars of what makes a great general contractor: expertise and project management. This is Episode 46 in the World of Construction series, building on Episode 45's introduction to contractor types and the Fred vs. Ace framework. If you haven't listened to Episode 45 yet, go back and do that first — it sets the foundation for everything covered here. The central insight of this episode: experience and expertise are not the same thing. You can have 30 years in construction and still be making the same mistakes as year three. A truly qualified GC is like a senior project manager in any other industry — they don't need to know how to do everything, but they absolutely need to hold the right people accountable for doing it right. That's the distinction. Bill walks through all 13 fundamentals of what general contractor project management actually looks like on a daily basis — from disseminating plans into an executable battle plan, to managing subcontractor…

People in this episode

Host: Bill Reid

Topics covered

• general contractor
• project management
• home building
• expertise
• construction

Keywords

• general contractor
• project management
• homeowners
• construction mistakes
• quality control

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: What Are You Really Paying a General Contractor For, World of Construction, Episode 45

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