The Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department (BSEED) is the City of Detroit's authority for building permits, trade permits, construction inspections, zoning, and contractor licensing. If you're building, rehabbing, or doing trade work inside Detroit city limits, BSEED is the department that approves your plans, issues your permits, signs off on your work, and hands you your Certificate of Occupancy.
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Burn rate is the pace at which a contractor is spending money — typically measured as cash outflow per month or per week. It answers a simple question: at the current rate of spending, how long does the cash last?
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A capability statement is a one-page document that summarizes what your company does, who you've worked for, and why you're qualified for the work. It's the contractor's version of a résumé — the first thing a general contractor, agency, or program manager looks at when deciding whether to engage you.
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Commercial solar is a growing line item on construction projects, and increasingly it lands in the scope of electrical and mechanical contractors, not just dedicated solar firms. If you are bidding work that includes a PV system, or a GC is asking you to cover the solar scope, here is what you need to know before you price it.
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Construction bonding is a three-party financial guarantee used to protect project owners, subcontractors, and suppliers from contractor default and nonpayment. A surety company (the bond issuer) guarantees to a project owner or claimant that a contractor will perform the contracted work and pay everyone downstream.
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Detroit-based contractors have access to formal certification programs that give their bids a structural advantage on City contracts — and in some cases, restrict competition to certified firms only.
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The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is the City of Detroit's local water and sewer utility. It manages the distribution and collection system inside Detroit city limits — the pipes, manholes, service connections, and meters that serve Detroit residents and businesses directly.
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Free cash flow (FCF) is the cash a business generates from operations after paying for the capital expenditures needed to maintain and grow the business. It's what's left over after the company has funded itself — available to pay down debt, return to owners, or reinvest.
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The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is the regional utility that owns and operates the water and sewer transmission infrastructure serving Detroit and 127 surrounding communities across southeast Michigan. Any contractor doing utility construction — water main, sanitary sewer, wastewater, or related civil work — on a GLWA or DWSD project will interact with GLWA's contracts, standards, and procurement system.
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Job borrow is what happens when a contractor uses cash from one project to fund the operations of another. Money that belongs to Job A — collected from progress billings, front-loaded schedules of values, or overbilled draws — gets spent covering payroll, materials, or overhead on Job B.
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A joint venture (JV) is a formal business arrangement in which two or more companies form a temporary partnership to pursue a specific project. In construction, JVs are most common on large-scale or complex jobs — infrastructure, public works, stadiums, hospitals — where no single firm has the bonding capacity, workforce, or technical depth to go it alone.
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Michigan Saves is a nonprofit green bank — the first in the nation, founded in 2010 — that provides low-interest financing for energy efficiency and clean energy upgrades. It is contractor-driven: contractors in the network offer financing at the point of sale, on-site, when the homeowner is already committed to the project.
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Michigan's two largest utilities — DTE Energy and Consumers Energy — both run residential energy efficiency rebate programs that pay contractors directly for qualifying upgrades. For contractors already doing insulation, HVAC, or weatherization work, these programs add rebate revenue on top of the job price without requiring homeowners to finance or wait for reimbursement.
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WAP is a federally funded program that delivers free energy efficiency services to low-income Michigan households. It is administered by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS), delivered through Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in every county in the state, and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and LIHEAP.
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The Miller Act is a federal law that requires contractors on U.S. government construction projects to obtain performance and payment bonds before work begins. It applies to any federal contract over $150,000.
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Water main leaks are expensive to find and expensive to miss. Traditional leak detection means surface listening equipment, pressure zone analysis, or digging — all of which are slow, disruptive, and imprecise.
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Revenue run rate is an annualized estimate of revenue based on a shorter measurement window — typically the most recent month or quarter, extrapolated forward. A contractor who billed $2M last month has a $24M annual run rate. It's a snapshot projection, not a forecast.
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A surety bond is a three-party agreement in which a surety company guarantees that a contractor will perform a contract as promised. If the contractor fails, the surety steps in to make the project owner whole, then comes after the contractor to recover the loss.
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