How do you keep a GC motivated to get the job done.

[Karen Lindstrom]

We are currently in the middle of building a spec house in a very nice town. Our G.C. has 13 employees and he seems to have 1 or 2 jobs going concurrently with our job.

I'm having a very hard time watching the progress being made because there only seems to be a few guys on site any given day. Because our G.C. isn't on site, the employees are on their cell phones, taking breaks etc. We've owned this property for a year and it took 7 months to get permits to start building. They started building in the middle of October and have had to deal with winter issues here in the Northeast. We are just now getting the rough in electric, HVAC etc installed. Our own home is similarly sized house that was build in 6 months (but was enclosed before the bad weather hit that year). So I get it, it takes a long time to build in the winter but it's already been 5 months. 

So how do I motivate my G.C. to 1) get his guys on site and 2) get them motivated to get the job done.  

We won't be changing G.C.'s at this point and will probably never use him again on a job this big.