Contractor Connection

APRIL 18, 2019

To ensure you hire a company that is fully capable and trustworthy, consult Contractor Connection. No need to get multiple bids. The post Your Garage Remodel: How to Make It a (Re)Model of Efficiency appeared first on Contractor Connection. Leave It to an Expert. No blindly choosing a company.

Remodeling 54

Remodeling Modeling Contractors IDEA 54

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 7, 2023

The cost estimate serves as a roadmap for a project to be bid on and built. Accurate construction cost estimates help determine if a project is feasible to build within a budget. If a project is overestimated, a contractor may lose out on an important bid and tarnish a relationship with an owner. Ready to start estimating better?

Estimating 98

Estimating Construction Budgeting Budget 98

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 8, 2017

Owner leadership without excessive reliance upon “JOC consultants” Focus upon best value outcomes. ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management – A framework for facilities life-cycle management. Building Information Modelling BIM in the Construction Industry – Technical Report TR-1405.

Contract 100

Contract COAA Life Cycle BIM 100

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 25, 2017

Remember that a Job Order Contract can be designed, implemented, and managed by the Owner, a combination of an Owner and a JOC Consultant, or JOC task orders can be executed leveraging a Cooperatives. JOC bidding process. Contact multiple JOC consultants and vendors. ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management.

Contract 100

Contract Life Cycle BIM Procurement 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After 25 years of building information modeling (BIM), one would think it would be different. Demolish bidding data silos & unlock insights: A primer for precon leaders Led by speakers Mary Holm, Senior Manager, Software Development Preconstruction, Autodesk, and Alice Adelman, Integration Solutions Engineer, Autodesk.

Autodesk 111

Autodesk Construction Schedule Estimating 111

Cassell Construction Estimating

JANUARY 7, 2014

Our company was a one man shop, as I did all the consulting, while traveling incessantly across the country. Now we’ve got Rob Mazoros, our full-time senior consultant and software engineer, adding a whole new dimension to our services. Kait Cassell has joined us to run our marketing, and in an associate consultant role.

Consulting 100

Consulting Sage Viewpoint San Diego 100

Job Order Contracting

MARCH 29, 2018

There is not an official definition, but MRSC has used this: On-Call (Work Order) Contracts (OC/WO Contracts) are bid and awarded without a specific public works project or scope of work in mind, but rather are categorized around general types of anticipated work or trades. Bid Bond Required? On-Call Contracts Defined. Over $300K.

Contract 100

Contract Bidding Construction Budgeting 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

As construction teams set the sequence relationships on 3D models and AI tools are used to create various schedule simulations for delivering projects and teams also generate 5D models by adding cash flow information to these models. This will be a multi-year journey but in 2024 we will see accelerated innovation.

Construction 137

Construction Industrial Modeling Autodesk 137

Construction Marketing Ideas

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This posting from Paul Lesieur in the Remdodelcrazy.com blog is worth repeating:’ Why are the bids so different? We like the contractor with the highest bid best because he had detailed all the fixtures we wanted and his estimate was very detailed in general. Why are the bids so different?

Documentation 63

Documentation Bidding Estimating Contractors 63

Construction Junkie

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Use BIM and Virtual Design and Construction With features like clash detection, built in scheduling and cost modeling, BIM and VDC offers plenty of opportunity to detect possible issues before wasting money and time. Besides developing skilled laborers, how else can we attempt to lessen the effect of rework on our jobs?

Change Orders 103

Change Orders BIM Documentation Overhead 103

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Design: This stage largely involves architects and members of the design team working together to come up with models for the project. Poorly designed, inaccurate, or incomplete plan models will inevitably lead to delays and unnecessary costs down the line. Digital models are much easier to update compared to paper documents.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Budget Construction Estimating 52

Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The engineering consulting firm used a check-as-you-go method in Revit Cloud Worksharing, which is a part of BIM Collaborate Pro. 2D Markup tools to pin issues to a model in 3D or 2D sheet. Discovery of new issues through first-person interaction with the aggregated model. Doing so will save time, as WSP Canada found.

Autodesk 52

Autodesk BIM Design Modeling 52

cnstrctr

JANUARY 4, 2020

Under a lump sum contract the consultants are typically engaged by the owner and the contractor falls under a separate contract with the owner. The contract is typically governed by the prime consultant. The major difference however, is that the contractor engages the consultants and provides a complete proposal to an owner.

Contract 88

Contract Construction Finance Documentation 88

DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The auction: All principal contractors (JVs) currently employed on the SCL 11xx series MTR line are eligible to bid. As MMA**’s first project in Hong Kong we offer ourselves as the lab-rats for the winning contractor of a silent auction.

BIM 53

BIM Contractors Bidding Documentation 53

Pro Builder

MARCH 18, 2021

Our experience at Construction Instruction , the training and consulting company I co-founded, is that builders want to take small, nonthreatening steps toward innovation , ones that reduce risk, improve customer satisfaction, and don’t create big changes to their current process. Ready-Frame suits nearly any home design.

Site 98

Site Denver New York City Innovation 98

DebunkTheBIM

JULY 27, 2020

Examples for the first group would be design or documenting in 3D, task-based applications like construction sequencing and logistics, model-based quantity take offs, all flavors of AEC visualizing. Apart from the overall BIM consultant, that can move onto their next victim. For example a Building Services Modeller.

BIM 48

BIM Modeling Plans Consulting 48

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 31, 2022

Economic & global People & culture Data & technology Sustainability Business model Vote. Business Model. AEC firms should be ready to position themselves as leaders in using technology to meet the legislation’s goals when bidding for projects that will define the next generation of U.S. Global & Economic.

Construction 97

Construction Autodesk BIM Modeling 97

Autodesk Construction Cloud

MAY 24, 2022

” By developing an efficient, digital operating model using Autodesk Construction Cloud software, SARA rehauled their practices in favour of genuinely digital workflows. And when it comes to business forecasting, having a simple environment to estimate and amend bids/costs is critical given the current economic client.

Autodesk 98

Autodesk BIM Drawings Management 98

Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Ivana shares how Mace saved 50% of their time spent on coordination and reporting by using BIM 360 Document Management and Model Coordination. Background into integrated methodologies for tracking changes and model coordination review. How to overcome internal resistance around using 3D models for quantity takeoff.

Autodesk 52

Autodesk Construction BIM Modeling 52

Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

No one model is perfect; all have benefits and drawbacks. Many methods of project delivery exist, but most are variations of the five models we’ll describe below. Design-Bid-Build (DBB). Design-bid-build refers to the sequential phases of this project delivery method, which sometimes is called “traditional.”

Risk 52

Risk Schedule Design Budgeting 52

Construction Dive

JUNE 12, 2013

Building information modeling (BIM) can be used with any project-delivery system in a construction project, an expert from Zetlin & De Chaira LLP emphasized to construction professionals attending a webinar that WPL Publishing held last week. Counselors at Law, highlighted during the program?

BIM 48

BIM Contract Bidding Consulting 48

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JUNE 6, 2022

At the fundamental level, professionals in this line of work must be adept at working with various model types and details. . BIM professionals must be able to oversee or manage activities around design and modeling. It’s important to have strong project planning skills.

Autodesk 52

Autodesk BIM Construction Management 52

Construction Marketing Ideas

AUGUST 10, 2012

Myers says Clark Construction began embracing technology and became one of the earlier investors in BIM software, which helped the organization break free of the barriers of conventional fixed-price bid work to providing extensive pre-consultation and construction guidance with developers and institutions.

Contractors 69

Contractors Michigan BIM Bidding 69

Construction Dive

DECEMBER 26, 2012

It was the entry entitled “Can Anything Be Done about Bid Shopping?,” Respondents work in the following principal types of companies: architecture (49 percent), construction (19 percent), real estate consulting (11 percent), among others. To view the full report, email a request to turner@tcco.com.

Michigan 48

Michigan ASPE Bidding Union 48

Cassell Construction Estimating

MARCH 26, 2009

March finds the bid market slowing in many areas, but holding its own in a few areas. However some of our clientele reports that it’s still possible to bid a job with some profit, and actually get awarded the job. After fifteen years as an Independent Timberline-certified Estimating consultant & trainer, we declined to renew.

Products 100

Products Sage Estimating Consulting 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She provided metrics and reporting to owners, team leaders, trade partners, and design consultants. Her position includes laser scanning and processing, MEP coordination, building modeling, 3D site logistics, 4D schedules, and virtual walkthrough plans. .

Construction 122

Construction BIM Management Project Management 122

Building Information Management

JUNE 9, 2016

The Fraud Triangle is a model used in the audit industry to gauge the risk based on whether three primary components exist – financial pressure, opportunity, and justification of the act. The pressure within this JOC program starts with the City accepting bids from the JOC general contractors that are too low and unrealistic.

Long Beach 40

Long Beach Contract Consulting Project Management 40

Construction Marketing

JULY 24, 2014

The goal is to get in at the planning, not bid stage to take the competitor out of the equation. With that information, the services can identify architects, building owners, municipalities, engineering firms, planners and other groups that are planning or putting out to bid commercial projects. Both of those will have subcategories.

Construction 214

Construction Claims Products Commercial 214

Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tracking project data to improve bidding and project management . Get on the road to cloud-cloud integration between geographic information system (GIS) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) with ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Construction Cloud software. This conversation covered: . Watch session > . Watch session > .

Autodesk 52

Autodesk BIM Construction Software 52

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 30, 2018

LEAN Practices Asset Competency Model. Procurement/bidding. Building Information Modeling (BIM) (Model & Management Systems) Capital Planning and Management Systems (CPMS). LEAN Considerations. MULTIPLE COMPETENCIES, BUSINESS PROCESSES, AND ACTIVITIES. Strategic planning. Cost estimating. Construction. Space planning.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Management Construction Education 100

Building Information Management

AUGUST 6, 2013

Design-Build has a spectrum, ranging from almost as dysfunctional as Design-Bid-Build all the way to almost as collaborative as Integrated Project Delivery. The biggest problem with this model is that when you have an architect prepare bridging documents, you’ve just made all the big decisions without the input of the building team.

Design 69

Design Documentation Contract Estimating 69

Cassell Construction Estimating

AUGUST 24, 2009

I’ve been asked by one of my industry software provider friends to write a piece on the current state of Building Information Modeling (BIM), as it relates to estimating in the here and now. Not found on the conventional (read archaic) low-bid project! Or is it the demand that’s drving the software, fueling the growth?

Estimating 100

Estimating BIM Modeling Software 100

Construction Cost Estimating

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Quantity takeoff is an activity performed by General Contractors, Subcontractors, Cost Consultants, and Quantity Surveyors as part of the construction process. Quantity takeoffs within civil 3D allow the designer to easily create quantity takeoffs based on the design model. Quantity takeoff is also applied to the pricing process.

Estimating 49

Estimating Construction Software Software 49

Job Order Contracting

DECEMBER 29, 2017

LEAN Practices Asset Competency Model. Procurement/bidding. Building Information Modeling (BIM) (Model & Management Systems). Support services may include outsourcing certain O&M requirements, independent and/or peer-based audits of O&M practices, and various consulting services. LEAN Considerations.

Life Cycle 100

Life Cycle Education Management Plans 100

Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal is to get in at the planning, not bid stage to take the competitor out of the equation. With that information, the services can identify architects, building owners, municipalities, engineering firms, planners and other groups that are planning or putting out to bid commercial projects. Both of those will have subcategories.

Construction 230

Construction Remodeling Claims Products 230

ENR Construction

AUGUST 21, 2012

The VEO platform helps project teams work inside complex 3D models on project delivery. Model-driven project delivery on jobsites could be taking a big leap forward with a license deal between project information management (PIM) provider Newforma and M-SIXs 3D software platform, called VEO. VEO works across multiple devices.

BIM 65

BIM Autodesk Modeling Revit 65

Construction Marketing Ideas

AUGUST 5, 2012

Essentially, the authors argue that the consultative, needs-focused “solution selling” model of the 1980s and 90s is now more of an irritant than an effective approach to convincing business-to-business clients to purchase from us.

Architecture 66

Architecture Engineering Consulting Resource 66