StringBean News
As Construction Labor Demands Grow, So Will Safety Challenges
Last week, we wrote about labor challenges ahead for the construction industry, with a potential demand of up to a million more hires over the next year. With job sites potentially filled with under-experienced workers for the foreseeable future, this could put many...
Be Careful Not to Commoditize Your Construction IT Tech Stack
Business technology often goes through a familiar cycle: first, there is a breakthrough in innovation with a few players leveraging it to gain a competitive edge. Then a proliferation occurs, where an entire market emerges around similar, “off the shelf”-type...
Error Rates for Manual Data Capture is Shockingly High and Increasingly Costly
Chances are, your inspections, reports, and checklists are littered with errors. Are you okay with this? Humans are prone to error. There’s no secret there. Yet too many of us, especially in the built world, still depend on pen and paper, or basic data capture...
Construction Safety Is Under Renewed Scrutiny
After a spate of worksite deaths, the New York Department of Buildings (DOB) recently announced a safety blitz across the city’s construction sites. DOB inspectors will be issuing steep fines of up to $25,000 per safety infraction. The announcement also states that...
Tackling Post-Pandemic Labor Challenges
As labor shortages put a strain on the post-pandemic recovery, it may be the construction industry that feels the pain more than many others. It’s estimated that construction companies will need to hire 430,000 workers this year, with a potential growth scenario that...
Dare We Celebrate a Successful Pivot Amid All the Depressing News?
Just last week I was talking to the Vice Chairman of one of our commercial real estate clients and he told me the new catch phrase among his peers is “Stay Alive till 2025.” Are you kidding me? Lately, waking up in the morning to scan the headlines supports this...
StringBean Wall of Fame: Acadia Realty Trust
Six months ago, most businesses left their offices amid the COVID-19 outbreak. So many became either virtual workers or were unfortunately furloughed, but the office exodus was pervasive. With all that came along with this drastic change, we quickly forgot about an...
Construction Site Safety Management
StringBean delivers customizable, cloud-based workflows that are designed to enhance site safety management, from project planning to jobsite inspections, and more -- all backed by real-time analytics and reporting. To learn more, download our one-pager...
Unkept Public Bathrooms Are a Symptom of Multibillion-Dollar Inefficiencies in Property Management
StringBean CEO Reuben Levine takes us on a journey through the property management landscape to uncover remarkable inefficiencies in how we manage productivity and manpower.
StringBean in the Holiday Spirit
At a time when you can click the “buy now” button and have your gift delivered via a stranger to a loved one or a client – take the time to hand-write the card and deliver the gift yourself. Makes a big difference.
