Selling your business is a different kind of business

By Max Beairsto. By the time I understood what it took to sell a business well, my dad’s sale was years behind us. Hindsight is an excellent qualification with a terrible sense of timing.

October 15, 2026

Why your phone goes quiet in the shoulder seasons

By Lasse Pettersen. Every spring and fall I hear the same thing from renovators outside the big cities: the work was steady all summer, and then the phone just stopped. The usual reaction is to spend more on ads. And while ads can help, most of the time the real problem is a lot cheaper to fix: how the business shows up on Google Maps.

October 15, 2026

The Hammer Episode #78: Reduce Complexity to Reduce Carbon

Calculating the embodied carbon of a building is a process of adding up all the inputs. So it follows that the more inputs there are, the more opportunities there are to increase a project’s global warming potential and make the project less sustainable.

September 14, 2026

The importance of local suppliers

By Joe Oliveira. Supplier relationships have always been a vital part of the construction industry. For Canadian contractors, their value becomes clearer when the schedule tightens and there is less room for delay.

September 14, 2026

Get More From Your Rental Store: The Rent vs Buy Equation with Patrick Tunnicliffe, RentalWise

Should I rent it or should I buy it? We use a huge variety of construction equipment on our jobsites. But too often we leave money on the table because we leave our decisions about ownership and usage to intuition.

August 19, 2026