Make No Mistake: Slim Margins Require Doing It Right the First Time
Frank Melo • September 29, 2025
Strong resilience continues to define the engineering and construction industries, which are holding firm against persistent financial pressures and ongoing economic fluctuations. As a result, the sector must keep sharpening its focus on jobsite efficiency and ensuring that valuable materials and talent are used as effectively and wisely as possible.
And, if necessity is the mother of invention, economic uncertainty is helping to emphasize the importance for companies to remain agile and adaptable.
Rising costs and tighter deadlines can mean small mistakes compound into expensive delays. Projects and teams must perform more capably with better controls to ensure even simple tasks do not need to be repeated or corrected later. With cost overruns being unacceptable, Double Black Construction
strives to remain nimble through adopting and using new technology to enhance how their skilled trades crews work in the field.
Keeping Overall Projects Costs Down by Avoiding Mistakes
It’s no secret that labour and materials are expensive and increasing all the time – well over the general rate of inflation. According to McKinsey, construction is the largest industry in the world. And it makes up about 13% of global GDP. But it is also one of the slowest growing with slim margins.
Even though construction revenues have been increasing (albeit at a slow rate), industry net profits are not as impressive as the wider public might think. According to Deloitte, construction earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) account for 5.5% of a company’s sales. This leaves little wiggle room when it comes to unexpected or additional expenses.
With economics like those, doing installations correctly the first time is essential. Cost overruns stemming from errors can’t be tolerated. Technology, strict processes, quality work and stringent inspections assure the engineering is done right the first time.
How important is it for Double Black Construction? It’s estimated that reworks of faulty or incorrect builds within the rest of the industry account for nearly 30% of construction costs.
Industry Pressures Affect the Bottom Line
Monetary policy decisions to lower interest rates have been helping to lower inflation, but steel and component prices have risen, also affected in some cases by tariffs. Construction companies are constantly looking at way to improve their bottom line.
Whether it’s negotiating prices with suppliers, adopting better technology or changing their methods, construction companies have been forced to prioritize efficiency and cost-saving.
Precise Yet Cost-Effective Practices Keep Costs Down
One of the ways Double Black Construction has become a preferred and authorized builder for so many of North America’s top building system manufacturers is their lean structure and cost-efficient processes using the best technology available to deliver completed products with accurate precision and durability. Their project partners rely on their teams to get it right the first time, keeping projects on schedule and on budget while minimizing costly overruns or delays.
How do they do it? The company relies on a combination of talent, technology and long-term relationships to ensure access to materials and help manage economic factors that save clients thousands on their installation. Double Black Construction avoids construction delays by using efficient project management practices and innovative construction techniques to minimize delays. On the jobsite, their experienced tradespeople use precise, efficient processes and intelligent technology, such as building information modeling (BIM)
and digital and robotic tools, to augment how teams work on site.
Delivering Ideal Finished Projects Every Time
By working with Double Black Construction to complete jobs efficiently and accurately the first time, clients can dramatically reduce the challenges most often seen on structural building construction projects.
With longstanding relationships with the best building system manufacturers
to deliver the most cost-effective steel solutions, Double Black Construction ensures your completed project meets all your requirements and business needs.
For your next engineering project that requires installation of pre-engineered steel buildings, connect with Double Black Construction
today by calling (833) 322-2722
to learn more or request a quote online.
About the author:
Frank Melo
has a construction civil engineering technology and business background with over 30 years of experience as a business owner and contractor. He was born and educated in London, Ontario and now divides his time between projects primarily in Ontario and British Columbia. He can be contacted at Double Black Construction at (778) 951-4766
or by email at frank@doubleblackconstruction.com
or through LinkedIn.
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