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Change Orders in Construction – 101 Guide

Lets Build

Change orders are common to construction projects. Whatever is the case, it is important to know how you can more effectively handle a change order as it can change your project both time and money. What is a change order in construction? What causes a change order.

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Stop Doing Change Orders for Free

Construction Business Owner

If you were asked by a friend to use your resources to perform a job for them for free, would you do it to make them happy and avoid conflict? Then why do you do it on change orders for your customers?

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Is Tech Adoption Worth the Pain?

Construction Business Owner

The question of why commercial real estate construction contractors and developers should be adopting advanced, user-friendly technologies and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is easy to answer.

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Root Cause of Construction Project Failures

Job Order Contracting

Basically, a lack of understanding of work scope and the associated detailed work activities, processes, and resources are required as well as how these activities impact participants and stakeholders cause repair, renovation, maintenance, or new build projects to be late, over budget, or otherwise completed poorly.

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Mayer Building Company for Subcontractors: Payment Guide & Resources

Levelset

Digging deeper into company processes for payment, change orders, lien waivers, and more will give you a sense of what to expect while working with them. . Download Mayer Building Company’s sample change order form. Learn about company processes. Upon receipt of payment, subcontractors must submit an executed lien waiver.

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More Than 25 Product Releases You Should Know in November

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Cost Management | Change Order Pay Before Approval* – In addition to Owner Directive type change orders, admins can now select any OCO/SCO change order types to be manually added to payment applications before they are approved, allowing the change order value to be edited between payment applications.

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Purchasing Staffing Ratio: What Should It Be?

Pro Builder

An understaffed purchasing department won’t have time to properly vet price increases, competitively bid and accurately contract trades, minimize change-order costs , or ensure your next project starts on the right foot. On the resource-consuming Richter scale, custom options are about a 9.0 How about change orders?