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Job Order Contracting Guide

Job Order Contracting

GENERAL – Cost data is organized using MasterFormat2004+ [1] and includes detailed line item description and associated material, equipment and labor as appropriate. BEST VALUE – As noted, all unit price line item provided incorporate locally research labor, material, and equipment costs. copyright of CSI.

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Construction Estimating

Chianelli Estimating

Recently Contractors and Owners have found that Outsource Estimating is becoming a practical way to cut overhead. They do not have the burden of carrying costs like workmen’s compensation, general liability insurance, unemployment related costs, vacations or sick days, etc.

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No Longer in the Dark: A Primer on the Distinction between Delay and Disruption Damages in a Construction Dispute

Best Practices Construction Law

The contract allowed for “delay damages” if the Contractor’s request for those damages “is determined to be compensable.”. Owner-Related Delays. Although the Contractor’s plans for the construction project anticipated that the County would move the utilities by a particular date, those utilities were moved almost one year later.

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#66:  Labor Inefficiency Costs: Who Pays? How Much?

NH Construction Law

Among the possible reasons a project might cost more to build than anticipated is diminished labor productivity occasioned by unforeseen space or time constraints. But a recent case suggests that such a lien may be granted if the owner has a cost-plus or “time and materials” arrangement. In Fraser Engineering Company, Inc.

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Simplify your concrete estimating process with Concrete Foundation Estimator 1.1.1

Construction Cost Estimating

This newest construction app will be a very resourceful and exceptionally influential productivity tool for all contractors and owner-builders. While making estimation , you should not have to repeatedly find materials and labor cost. You don’t have to update material or labor cost on a regular basis. Estimator 1.1.1

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Concrete Foundation Estimator is an useful construction app to speed up the estimating & bidding on concrete jobs

Construction Cost Estimating

Concrete foundation estimator (CFE) is considered as the most useful and powerful productivity tool specifically designed for all contractors , owner-builders and homeowners to ease & augment the estimating and bidding processes for concrete projects. Also include overhead and discount. Just update material or labor cost sometimes.

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A glossary of terms with reference to Construction Cost Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating

Bill of materials (BOM) - a list of materials required for the construction of a project or part of a project, which may include quantities. Bill of quantities (BOQ) - a document used in tendering in the construction industry in which materials, parts, and labor (and their costs) are itemized. See also Overhead, Indirect cost.