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The High Cost of Low Bids: When Contractors Compete on Price, Everyone Loses

Levelset

Prioritizing a low bid over contractor performance is a lose-lose procurement strategy. Unfortunately, low bidding is an accepted practice for both owners and contractors alike. Owners will say that focusing on the lowest bid possible ensures they get a good price. Who’s responsible for low-bid procurement?

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Commercial Construction Trends: Why More Clients Are Choosing the Design-Assist Model

HardHatChat

Rather than a competitive bid scenario, where clients choose a commercial construction firm based solely on their estimated costs, we prefer to be brought to the table at the initial planning stages so we can provide a construction perspective that could ultimately save everyone time, money and headaches.

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How BIM Helps General Contractors Win More Business

Construction Business Owner

For the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, this holds especially true. One technology in particular—building information modeling (BIM)—is leading the way. BIM is an intelligent, 3D model-based process that helps general contractors become more accurate and efficient.

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Effective Marketing For Diverse Construction Job Categories

Construction Marketing

Collaborate with clients, construction managers, and other professionals to bring architectural visions to life. Provide accurate cost assessments to guide budgeting and bidding processes. Leverage targeted advertising on platforms like LinkedIn, where you can reach architecture, engineering, and project management professionals.

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How masonry software can improve detailing and design

Construction Specifier

Due to the complexity of estimating and ordering, and the vast number of individual units required for projects, masonry can be challenging to model in existing software, extremely difficult and perhaps not entirely impossible. For Phase 2, he used Masonry iQ, a plug-in that automates much of the manual modeling work.

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Autodesk University 2022: Check Out these Top Sessions for Execs and Owners

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Over the course of three action-packed days, you’ll have a chance to glean insights from global peers in the realm of architecture, construction, and engineering. Learn more about energy analysis reports, federated intelligent models, and more. From Zero to Hero: Next Steps Embracing Digital Bids and BuildingConnected | CS502629.

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How to implement the seller/doer model in your AEC business or practice

Construction Marketing Ideas

The core point is that the architectural and engineering professionals have shifted on the pendulum from the original seller-doer (rainmaker) model to a marketing/business development specialist approach, and back to a more hybrid model — where BD specialists align more closely with technical professionals in closing the work.