Archives: September 2018

Construction, Human Resources

The Secret Weapon for Running a Better Construction Company [Sponsored]

Hawaii Business Staff,

In today’s market, running a construction company is a challenge—razor-thin profit margins, skilled labor shortages, increasingly complex projects. One expensive area of inefficiency is job costing, or understanding true payroll expenses by project. Too many contractors still use old school labor allocation methods, including clunky legacy systems and time-consuming manual processes, prone to human error. Clients of simplicityHR by ALTRES…
Leadership, Talk Story

Talk Story with George Ehara

Gina Gelber,

He’s the VP and Division Manager, Swinerton Builders Fifteen years after bringing Swinerton to Hawaii, Ehara offers a nuanced take on the construction industry: Bigger isn’t necessarily better; boom markets have their own challenges; and if you build it, they won’t necessarily come. Plus he discusses innovative construction trends that help to counter Hawaii’s limited land space. Q: Swinerton’s gross…
Construction

Building for Climate Change in Hawaii

Noelle Fujii-Oride,

Rising seas and other effects of climate change are changing the way buildings in Hawaii are designed and constructed. In this two-part report, we look at what the building industry is already doing and should be doing, plus some ways it’s trying to reduce its own impact on the environment. Illustration by Michael Byers Part I: Building for Climate Change Climate…
Health & Wellness

About Kaiser Permanente Hawaii [Sponsored]

Hawaii Business Staff,

For 60 years, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has been recognized as one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. We currently serve more than 250,000 members across Hawaii. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists, and team of caregivers. Our world-class medical teams are supported by industry-leading…
Business Trends, Tourism

What Makes Waikīkī Dangerous and Who’s to Blame?

Oʻahu's tourism and entertainment hub endures an epidemic of beach thefts, random spikes in violent crimes and an understaffed police force. Here’s what’s being done to counter the crime.
Tiffany Hill,

Oʻahu’s tourism and entertainment hub endures an epidemic of beach thefts, random spikes in violent crimes and an understaffed police force. Here’s what’s being done to counter the crime.
Editor's Note, Opinion

Climate Change Story is Our Most Important of the Year

Steve Petranik,

If you are going to die in, say, the next 30 years and have no children or grandchildren and don’t care about the future of Hawaii, you can probably ignore our story on “The Cost of Climate Change.” For everyone else, the story by contributing writer LiAnne Yu is the most important article we will publish this year. I urge…
Finance

Investment Strategies for When You Don’t Know What Lies Ahead

Steve Petranik,

A conversation about investing amid risk, volatility, tariffs, political uncertainty and the unexpected changes that will happen in your own life Hawaii Business editor Steve Petranik interviews Kaleialoha K. Cadinha-Puaa, CEO, and Neil Rose, president and chief investment officer, of Cadinha & Co., registered investment advisors based in Honolulu. Here is an abbreviated transcript that has been lightly edited. Steve…