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Phases of Commercial Real Estate Development

Construction Marketing

Developers must understand the various financing options, such as traditional bank loans, private equity, and government programs. This includes creating a detailed project schedule, budget, and phasing plan. Commercial real estate development also involves a significant amount of risk management.

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Solutions to Housing Affordability

Pro Builder

If you’ve ever conducted a survey or hosted a focus group that allowed participants to freely voice their opinions, you know the risk that comes with that endeavor: a wildly disparate, mostly thoughtful, occasionally profane, and (almost) always insightful stew of comments that leaves you wishing you’d never asked the question in the first place.

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Early estimates only part of the procurement problem

Construction Law

As we went to press a National Infrastructure Bank that will channel some £600bn of public and private sector money into capital projects over the next five years was due to be announced, which could prove an incentive for government to take action to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

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Viewpoint: The Case for Neutral, Third-Party Schedulers | ENR.

ENR Construction

Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Survey Schedule. Viewpoint: The Case for Neutral, Third-Party Schedulers. I was recently asked to participate in a debate on scheduling specifications at Stanford University. Contractors routinely ignore scheduling specifications and their own CPM schedules.

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Contractors Should Beware of Recovery Risks | ENR: Engineering.

ENR Construction

Banking & Credit Crisis. Survey Schedule. Contractors Should Beware of Recovery Risks. Description: Contractors face recovery risk when they take on too much work after they’ve depleted their staff, cash and other resources. Risk management. BONUS: ENR Future Tech & ENR Risk Review at no additional charge.

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What to expect over the holidays

Construction Equipment

Higher call volumes: As consumers start spending over the busy holiday shopping season, this means a spike in inbound customer calls to retail and bank contact centers is coming. The ability to authenticate customers over the phone when they are traveling domestically or abroad is critical to determining the level of risk of inbound calls.

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6 Ways the COVID-19 crisis will reshape the construction industry

Lets Build

The study points out that even if companies have policies in place to deal with such risks, they are not activated until it is too late. Organisations tend to not take the risks seriously until they manifest fully. For instance, companies that depend on bank checks and physical forms need to find other means to distribute payment.