Aspiring Construction Business Owner: How Can I Get Started as a Civil Engineer?

Hi Everyone,

I am a civil engineer with a diploma in civil engineering. I want to start a construction business, but I don't know how to start. Please provide me with your valuable answers.

Thank you,
Ranga

You have not provided sufficient details about yourself. What is your age? Have you worked as a Site Engineer, if not as a Project Manager? Starting a construction business would mean knowing everything about construction laws, planning and estimation, finance, and so on.

I have been providing replies on this forum about starting a new business. You could have checked this forum before raising your query. Anyway, check the following links:

- https://www.citehr.com/241975-i-want...ml#post1109999
- https://www.citehr.com/260478-starti...ml#post1181231
- http://www.businessplans.org/market.html
- https://www.citehr.com/511667-small-...designing.html

About Making a Business Plan: By the way, you mentioned starting your business. Have you prepared your business plan? If not, you may avail of my consulting services. I help upcoming entrepreneurs in developing a business plan for their business.

All the best!

Regards, Dinesh Divekar

Starting a Construction Business: Key Considerations

You want to start a construction business but do not know how to begin. First, what is the objective of starting this industry? What is the source of finance? What type of construction do you want to start—flats, shops, commercial buildings? What is your experience in this line? The construction industry has one of the most complicated and complex environments. Basically, you need to have a business plan. Have you thought about creating a proper business plan? If you elaborate on these aspects, members will give you good suggestions.

Some helpful links:
- http://www.mytopbusinessideas.com/st...ction-company/
- https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-set-u...-needed-for-it

Hi all,

Can anybody help me with a business plan for a construction company?

I want to start a construction business, but I don't know how to begin.

Forgive me, but I cannot resist replying to this with the best advice you are ever going to get: one word, DON'T.

If you have no idea what you are doing, you are setting yourself up for disaster. I don't want to crush your dreams, but setting up a business of any sort, let alone something major like construction, is fraught with danger.

If you know nothing, then get out there and learn. Go and do courses to learn how to set up a business first. Get a job in a construction company and study every single aspect of how it is set up and how it runs.

My second piece of advice: write down every single thing you do from now on. If or when it all fails, you can earn millions by writing books and giving presentations to would-be business owners, telling them what NOT to do.

I have been on this forum for a long time now. There are hundreds of previous posts from people who have tried to start businesses and failed. Statistics show that all over the world, very few start-ups succeed. We all aspire to be like Ambani, Mittal, Tata, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc., but the world is not like that, unfortunately.