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KPIs for Architects: 3 Performance Indicators to Watch

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These data points provide insight into the profitability of a company and give owners an early indication of potential issues. Architectural business consultant Lucas Gray of Charette Venture Group recommends three KPIs to help firms measure their profitability: break-even point, utilization rate, and billable ratio. .

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PSMJ Resources Blog: 11 Ways to Cut Overhead

PSMJ Resources

11 Ways to Cut Overhead. Here are eleven creative ideas to reduce your overhead expenses. Assign collateral duties to everybody in the office, virtually eliminating overhead positions. or break your profit, but by focusing attention on areas of cost that. Architectural Record. 11 Ways to Cut Overhead.

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JOB ORDER CONTRACTING BASICS

Job Order Contracting

that reflects contractor overhead and profit, and other items as allowed via the contract. Any professional architectural or engineering services that required for a work order/task order are the responsibility of the awarded JOC contractor. The latter is a factor, generally around 1.2

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Job Order Contract – Frequently Asked Questions

Job Order Contracting

A co-efficient should incorporate the contractor’s profit and any other costs/contingencies as stipulated for the particular JOC. Should a UPB include overhead and profit? A UPB should reflect costs for a specific task without applying full overhead and profit.

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What is Construction Estimating?

Chianelli Estimating

Estimators adjust costs from the project’s start to finish to account for potential profit, overhead and indirect costs. Since estimating requires extreme attention to detail, accuracy and adaptability, most estimators have experience in fields like engineering, architecture and construction design.

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Job Order Contracting 2021 and Beyond

Job Order Contracting

The UPB is organized using the CSI MasterFormat data architecture and includes separate line items for demolition as well as line item modifiers (the latter are cost adds or deducts to account for project size or other variables). If a UPB is properly created it consists of “bare costs” only (no contractor overhead or profit).

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Published Job Order Contact Unit Price Data – Objective, Independent, and Cost Effective – UPB

Job Order Contracting

MasterFormat (registered trademark of the Construction Specification Institute) should be the basis of data architecture. The level of cost detail should incorporate Material, Equipment, and Labor details as appropriate to the task, and a total not incorporation overhead & profit.

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