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Change Orders in Construction – 101 Guide

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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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Better Manage Construction Costs Schedules and Quality

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Sixty (60%) percent of all project fail to meet both cost and and schedule targets. Fortunately there are proven processes to better manage construction costs, schedules, and quality. The errors and poor processes result in change orders, project delays, and legal disputes.

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Commercial Construction Project Management Trends: How to Survive the Incredible Shrinking Timeline

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One of the biggest challenges for commercial construction firms today is the tighter project timelines that have become the norm at every phase of a project – from shorter deadlines for submitting initial bids and budgets, to quicker resolution on addendums and change orders, to compressed schedules for construction and delivery.

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Purchasing Staffing Ratio: What Should It Be?

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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?

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5 Reasons to Use Mechanical Contractor Software

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For practices like estimates, time tracking, project management, change order management, accounting, and other key processes, mechanical contractor software has helped complete jobs more efficiently and effectively. Mechanical projects need complete control of resources from material to equipment control. 3) Estimating.

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Autodesk Build Gets 25+ Product Updates, Features, and Enhancements

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Spread markup value in owner change order** . Desktop connector schedule update improvement . Labor resource filter in iOS . Cost Management | Spread markup value in owner change order** – When selecting Fixed Price in the Main Contract setup, the system now spreads change order markup values over normal cost items.

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Commercial Construction Project Planning: 3 Warning Signs Your Budget Might Go Bust

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General contractors are a great resource for suggesting substitutions that could add up to big savings and keep a project budget in check – from recommending an alternate, less-expensive finish material to create the same aesthetic as what is specified in the plans, to value-engineering nearly any project component.

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