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Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates

Job Order Contracting

Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates per the GAO. In all instances more effort is needs to efficiently and strategically manage our government owned built infrastructure from life-cycle and best value perspectives. Publicly Released: Mar 27, 2018. GAO DOD Cost Estimating.

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KPMG Report: The value of Information Management in construction for VolkerWessels

Lets Build

A report commissioned by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and prepared by KPMG focused on the value of Information Management within construction and infrastructure sectors. VolkerWessels UK participation in the value of information management in construction report.

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Understanding and Addressing Construction Industry Pain Points

Viewpoint Construction Technology

An architect using digital tablet to check plans for construction on site. Despite the struggles felt across many industries in Australia, the infrastructure sector remains one of the most stable in the country today. Moreover, in the private sector, the trend estimate for house commencements rose 2.0% increases respectively.

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Early estimates only part of the procurement problem

Construction Law

Crossrail should have opened in December 2018 but is currently hoped to be completed by the first half of 2022. A key conclusion is that governments often fail to recognise the inherent uncertainties and risks in early cost and schedule estimates when using them to set budgets and completion dates for projects.

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Area Cost Factors – Not a viable for Federal Construction Cost Estimating?

Job Order Contracting

Should Areas Cost Factors be used for Construction Cost Estimating? As a result, more than 40 years after the introduction of area cost factors (ACFs), the federal government is no closer to its goals of having construction cost estimates match actual construction costs, or properly adjusting for regional (location based) variances.

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Five Reasons Why Off-site Modular Construction is the New Favorite

Construction Cost Estimating

What is Off-site Modular Construction Up until the last decade, we have always known construction business is to be conducted on project site. This is called Off-site Modular Construction, and it is shaking the construction industry at the roots. Experts project that the market has progressed by 26% between 2014 to 2017.

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Top Ten Construction Projects in World

Construction Cost Estimating

The Construction industry is something that never stops. To achieve more living space, better infrastructure, production facility, and development, we need to be building some stuff all the time, expanding our concrete footprint everywhere. Some of these require very different kinds of technologies to construct, as you will see below.