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Estimate Your Way in STACK

Construction Business Owner

Estimating is the backbone of a construction project, and it’s essential to get it right to win bids. After calculating material quantities with your takeoff, estimating adds costs to all facets of the project, from materials and labor to overhead and markup. Waste and overhead can also be added to arrive at the project cost.

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Construction in the Metaverse – Is the Future Closer Than We Think?: Overhead in the Big Room

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Tour a sample hallway, office suite, apartment. Bidding and designing made easy . “It It would help and improve the bidding and designing processes.” – an assistant project manager. For example, stadiums, historical buildings, or even general office buildings. Imagine inspecting a 50-story building, inside and out.

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What’s in a JOC Coefficient

Job Order Contracting

Here’s a listing of what is typically included in a construction contractor’s Job Order Contract coefficient… Contractor’s overhead and profit. Subcontractors’ overhead and profit. Office management and equipment. Depreciation of mobile office(s). Employee payroll taxes, insurance, and fringe benefits.

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Are “Unabsorbed” Office Costs Real Damages?

Construction Dive

By Bruce Jervis The Eichleay formula, used for calculating and recovering home office overhead in a delay situation, has long been controversial. If periodic progress payments are extended over a longer period of time, the contract does not cover, or absorb, fixed costs at the rate anticipated when the contract was bid.

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Understanding the Contractor’s Job Order Contract Coefficient

Job Order Contracting

Example include, general and administrative and other overhead costs, insurance costs, bonding and alternative payment protection costs, protective clothing, equipment rental, and contractor’s profit. Subcontractors’ overhead and profit. Office management and equipment. Depreciation of mobile office(s).

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COVID-19 – IMPACT ON CONSTRUCTION

Chianelli Estimating

This pertains to both field tradesmen, supervision as well and office personnel and management. So what happens when the engine get restarted and the stalled construction sites reopen, projects that were put on hold will be back in the works and new jobs will be out for bid. No one is safe.

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Estimating- The New Normal

Chianelli Estimating

Most likely none of the cost factors now required will have been budgeted for on previously awarded contracts and the list is formable; controlled access to sites, material delivery disruptions, temperature checks, two week quarantine, reduced labor force – both in the field and in the office, material shortages. Office Utilities.