Construction Insights and Perspectives

Some of the best ideas in construction come from people who are willing to look at familiar problems differently. That thinking is at the heart of the General’s Lab Innovation Program (GLIP), an Ontario-wide initiative that connects post-secondary students with real challenges faced by the construction industry. Presented by American Global and the Ontario General […]

If you’re managing multiple concurrent ICI or public infrastructure projects in 2026, construction project cost tracking in Canada has never been more unforgiving. A budget locked at tender can be materially wrong within weeks of breaking ground — and without live cost data flowing from the field into your accounting system, you have no mechanism […]

If you are a general contractor or project manager asking whether your current are not dealing with a workflow habit — you are dealing with a structural problem that compounds across every job you run. Here are ten concrete signs that a switch is overdue, plus a framework for deciding what to do next. Fragmented […]

If you’re running a construction company with 20 to 200 employees and your back office still runs on QuickBooks, Sage 50, and a fleet of spreadsheets, you already know the friction. Construction ERP software Canada-wide is increasingly the answer SMB contractors are landing on — not because it’s trendy, but because the complexity of running […]

If you’ve been running your construction business on QuickBooks, Sage 50, or a patchwork of spreadsheets, you already know the pain: month-end reconciliations that eat an entire week, holdback calculations done manually, and T5018 season that feels like a punishment. Construction ERP Canada solutions exist specifically to solve these problems — construction ERP is purpose-built […]