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Get the Right Tech for Your Business

Construction Business Owner

In 2004, I wrote an article for one of the first editions of Construction Business Owner magazine titled “Is Your Goal to Retire Before You Learn the Computer?” Now, cutting-edge technology is required to communicate with customers and subcontractors, obtain and read plans, schedule jobs and people, and manage business and field operations.

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The Integrated Sidekick

Construction Business Owner

In 2004, I wrote an article for one of the first editions of Construction Business Owner magazine titled “Is Your Goal to Retire Before You Learn the Computer?” Now, cutting-edge technology is required to communicate with customers and subcontractors, obtain and read plans, schedule jobs and people, and manage business and field operations.

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How to Achieve 25%-30%+ average construction Savings

Job Order Contracting

Schedule a 15-minute introductory call. If you are wondering how to How to Achieve 25%-30%+ average construction savings, it’s really simple. Just stop doing the same old things that will never work. References: Ballard, G., Howell, G., Competing Construction Management Paradigms. Ballard, G., Howell, G.,

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CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FAILURE FACTORS

Job Order Contracting

Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. Project Management: Cost, Time, and Quality, Two Best Guesses and a Phenomenon, Its Time to Accept Other Success Criteria. International Journal of Project Management Belout, A., & Gauvreau, C. International Journal of Project Management Chitkara, K.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

For example, GAO and other studies/reports consistently report that errors and lack of due diligence with respect to original construction cost estimates are primary reasons for negative cost and schedule impacts, and overall poor project performance and outcomes. T The following figure, for example, was produced in 1972.

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New Study Illustrates the Schedule, Cost, and Productivity Benefits that VDC Technology Can Help Facilitate

Construction Dive

Mortenson Company completed between 2004 and 2013 using the virtual design and construction (VDC) process has uncovered some impressive benefits that others in the industry may want to note. A recent analysis of 18 projects that M.A. percent.

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Revit OpEd: Delete Sheets In Browser or Schedules

Revit OpEd

Delete Sheets In Browser or Schedules. Revit warns us that they have been deleted from the model but they are still listed in schedules. To really delete them we have to open a schedule view and delete them there. How about instead having a Rooms explorer, like you can explore Schedules, Sheets and Families? Whadya think?

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