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Commercial Property Transactions Expected To Decline

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Commercial property transaction volume is expected to decline over the next three years to $475 billion in 2018, according to a new three-year economic forecast from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate. percent in 2017 and 3 percent in 2018, all below the long-term average growth rate of 5.8

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The New Preconstruction Advantage: Connected Quantification & Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment

Construction Business Owner

For example, if each clash costs $3,500 per instance (PWC, 2018), it’s difficult for estimators and project managers to ensure each project is profitable during the planning phases of a project. Autodesk Construction Cloud’s CDE empowers teams to remain on the same page when planning and forecasting a project.

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2020 Housing Giants Report: The Magnificent Middle

Pro Builder

million last year on “just” 205 closings, gaining in both counts compared to 2018. 47 in the rankings after earning $432 million on 1,663 closings in 2019, a leap of $30 million and 104 units from 2018. bump in home building revenue and more than 63,000 additional units closed or completed compared with 2018. . . .

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Why construction should stop thinking of software as a cost

Lets Build

Project Managers who focus on construction-specific solutions have better chances of succeeding in a project as they will be able to establish a real-time communication flow and seamlessly connect the lookahead planning with the master schedule. And this is why tools like WhatsApp and Excel can eventually put your projects in danger.

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20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020

Building Radar

Forecasts: How the construction industry in Germany will develop in 2020 Software in the construction industry 1. Some software products specialize in scheduling, others in collaboration. Furthermore, forecast models calculate realistic time constraints for project control. Fewer employees in the German construction industry 19.

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Home Building by the Numbers

Pro Builder

The annual analysis, called the Comparative Financial and Operations Analysis (“Fin-Op” for short), draws from detailed information about various revenue, cost, and profit metrics provided anonymously by builders of varying sizes in different locations, serving as a benchmarking and forecasting tool for the company, builders, and the industry.

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Federal Infrastructure Bill Paves the Way Toward More Transportation Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships

Constructlaw

Of the President, Counsel on Env’t Quality, Environmental Impact Statement Timelines (2010-2018) (June 12, 2020). [6] Under the new TIFIA loan requirements, public or private entities applying for a loan for certain projects over $750 million must perform a value-for-money (VFM) analysis during the planning and project development phases. [3]