The Rebuild — Matt Kelly

The Specialty Contractor’s
Risk Guide Library

Free guides built for the person wearing the hard hat.

Every risk. Every project type. Manual, point solution, and platform approaches to protect your business — download the guide for your trade and project type.

12Free Guides
3Trades
8Project Types
250+Pages
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The Documentation Defense Playbook

How specialty contractors protect projects, margins, and reputations through better documentation. The “smoke detector” principle.

14 pagesPDF
All Trades
The Change Order Recovery Guide

The 4-Hour Pricing Framework for recovering every dollar you earn. Stop absorbing costs and protect your margin.

13 pagesPDF
Electrical Contractors
Electrical
Commercial Office & TI

Scope creep, trade stacking, fast-track pressure. Risk-Solution Matrix with manual, point solution, and platform approaches.

25 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
Industrial & Manufacturing

High voltage, arc flash, LOTO, hazardous locations, and commissioning risks.

25 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
Healthcare & Institutional

Life-safety systems, ICRA, NEC 517, Joint Commission. Most regulated electrical project type.

25 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
Data Centers & Mission Critical

Zero downtime. 2N redundancy. 100% torque verification. Documentation IS your reputation.

25 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
Multifamily Residential

Volume, speed, thin margins. When a $50 mistake multiplies across 300 units.

26 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
K-12 & Higher Education

Immovable deadlines, prevailing wage, occupied buildings, community scrutiny.

25 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
Retail & Hospitality

Fast-track, owner-driven changes, grand opening deadlines. CO discipline IS your margin.

25 pg6 Matrices
Electrical
Renewable Energy & Solar

DC systems, evolving codes, massive scale. ITC deadlines and 25-year warranties.

26 pg6 Matrices
Mechanical
Mechanical
Healthcare

The building never closes. Permit spaces above patient floors, negotiated shutdown windows, witnessed commissioning, A2L.

12 pg3 Matrices
Structural Steel Fabricators & Erectors
Structural Steel
Fabrication & Erection

Dual-site exposure, mill-cert traceability, weld and bolt records, AISC 207-25 audit readiness. Built for fabricators and erectors.

21 pg6 Matrices

Mechanical: Healthcare is live above — Industrial and Commercial TI are next. Plumbing and roofing guides are being rebuilt from the Risk Library and will return trade by trade.

Document well. Stay safe. Get home to your family.
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