Benefits & Services

Builders Exchange, Novem Group, and Ascensus have created a multiple-employer 401(k) Retirement Plan that costs the employer only $400.00 per year. Every business is unique, and your retirement plan should reflect that. You remain in control of the design, while we help you build a plan that reflects your company’s values and future

A multiple employer plan (MEP) is a streamlined retirement solution that simplifies and reduces the complexity, cost, and fiduciary responsibilities of offering a retirement plan. Unlike traditional plans, where your organization handles all administration and compliance, we act as the dedicated MEP sponsor.

Employers can benefit from:

• Reduced administrative workload: The MEP sponsor and the dedicated 3(16) administrative fiduciary oversee key functions such as eligibility, distributions, compliance reporting, and more – freeing you to focus on running your business.
• Less fiduciary responsibility: Fiduciary duties are shifted to the MEP sponsor, the 3(16) administrative fiduciary, and the 3(38) investment fiduciary, significantly reducing the burden on participating employers.
• Lower costs: Pooling assets and participants across multiple employers creates efficiencies and economies of scale, which can potentially reduce overall plan costs.

Flexible plan design that works for you:

• Safe harbor and nondiscrimination testing options: Simplify compliance while encouraging participation.
• Automatic enrollment and escalation: Boost employee participation and savings rates with set-it-and-forget-it features.
• Eligible and vesting schedules: Choose criteria that best fit your workforce and business.
• Matching and profit-sharing contributions: Taylor employer contributions to reward and retain talent.
• Investment menu choices: Work with your advisor and the 3(38) fiduciary to offer appropriate options.

Our widely-used Plan Room is one of the largest construction reporting services in New York State. Our members have the ability to review plans and specifications online dealing for commercial, industrial, institutional projects as well as heavy and highway projects, state and federal projects and multiple family residential units in New York and Pennsylvania. Our reporting service handles over 8,000 sets of plans each year.

The Online Plan Room allows you to search for bidding opportunities by geography, construction type, CSI code, and keywords. It also carries other pertinent bidding information such as bonding requirements, bidder’s lists, where to purchase plans, and much more. It allows you to download drawings and specs, print them in-house or you can place an online order from the Association which can be picked up, mailed, or sent by the overnight carrier of your choice.

If you are currently using another construction reporting service call us for a free two-week trial. We are confident our reporting is better, easier to use, and more timely than our competitors. For information call either office and we will arrange a free trial and demonstration. We also maintain a library of hard copy plans and specs for those jobs that are local in nature.

Workers Compensation Safety Group #469 is managed by Lovell Safety Group. Lovell’s Workers Compensation Construction Industry Safety Group #469 has tripled in size in the past 5 years. It has also paid 25% dividends each of the past 15 years, in addition to the advance 25% discount on workers compensation premiums. This worker’s compensation program and safety group continues to offer construction industry employers significant savings on their workers compensation premiums.

To learn more about this workers compensation program or to find out how you can join Safety Group #469, please contact either office.

The association sponsors dozens of opportunities to socialize with other people in the industry through social events like golf outings, pig roasts, dinner meetings and other planned events.  Watch the Events tab, and your mail, for upcoming events in your area.

Our offices are equipped with Canon high speed small format scanners and HP large format scanners and HP PageWide printers. We are capable of printing, scanning, and archiving any document up to forty inches in width, in full color or black & white. We can also digitally archive prints, pictures, maps, and owner’s manuals for commercial buildings. Our printers are capable of printing on plain bond paper, polypropylene, and Tyvek.  Call our offices for pricing.

Last year we trained over five hundred people in one or more OSHA topics. Between the two offices, we hold about forty safety training classes a year. The classes range from OSHA topics like the OSHA 30-hour the OSHA 10-hour, fall protection, silica awareness, forklift licensing, flagging & traffic control, rigging, crane signaling and many more.  Watch the Events tab, and your mail, for upcoming classes.

We often hold educational seminars to keep members up to date with new regulations affecting the industry such as insurance laws, New York State Family Leave and health insurance benefits.

We work with as many as four law firms to be sure members are compliant with current rules and regulations. New York State has recently mandated that every employer have all their employees trained in Sexual Harassment by January 1st of 2019 and once a year thereafter. BEST has already distributed a standardized company sexual harassment policy to all its members for adoption and is currently working on a standardized training program which it will run several times a year going forward.

BEST serves as an industry advocate when needed. Our most recent project is trying to get New York State to recognize their unrealistic Minority & Women Business Enterprise utilization standards down to a fair and equitable level. BEST has teamed up with twenty nine other New York Associations whom have all donated $5,000 each and have hired a prominent Albany-based law firm to bring suit in an attempt get the utilization levels to a more realistic level.