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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps. Construction contract is generally awarded to the lowest bidder and/or lowest qualified builder, who then utilizes the subcontractors included in his or her bid. Advantages.

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The New Preconstruction Advantage: Connected Quantification & Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment

Construction Business Owner

Whether virtual design and construction (VDC) managers rework designs with architects to ensure the client’s vision is constructible, or project managers collaborate with superintendents to ensure the most up-to-date documents are available to manage field teams and the quality of their construction, there is risk of losing profit margins.

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Quantity Take-offs by Construction Estimating Services can benefit Builders & General Contractors

Chianelli Estimating

Is there a last minute bid opportunity that you need of assistance with? Do you have too many bids proposals to handle and not enough staff when a last minute “emergency” bid is due. They can provide a quantity take-off or a complete estimate or for those emergency bid occasions.

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New in Autodesk Construction Cloud: 40+ Product Releases You Should Know in May

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Members can now easily distinguish the number of pages within a multi-page PDF document and navigate between the pages by using the previous/next arrows or keyboard shortcuts. Files | Multi-page PDF Navigation Improvements – Now viewing multi-page PDF files on web is easier!

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Meet with them before every project to discuss not only the contractual provisions for scope of work and change orders, but also what you bid and why. The profit you calculate when bidding a job can fluctuate dramatically as work progresses. Or have you done extra work that wasn’t covered by a change order?

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Khatib & Alami Achieves Time Savings of up to 40% Through a Cloud Collaboration Strategy

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As a sector that has seen its greatest evolutions in the past decade, K&A were amongst the first companies to truly adopt digital and BIM as part of its bid to be more time and cost efficient, while providing a higher standard of output for its clients. Identifying challenges and finding solutions.

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Unique QuickBooks Setup For Contractors

Contractor Bookkeeping

Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Land Developers. Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Land Development Into Lots. Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Spec Builders. Chart of Accounts Work-In-Progress For Spec Home Into Rentals. Item List Bid Bond Deposits. Web Based Reports.