Construction Enquirer

APRIL 21, 2023

London-based private equity group Cap10 has launched a £214m takeover bid for housing maintenance contractor Surveserve. The bid, which is being recommended by the housing maintenance firm’s board, is at a 39% premium to yesterday’s closing share price of 90p, which gave Sureserve a market capitalisation of £145m.

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 11, 2024

You can’t bid projects right unless you know your job costs, production rates, actual overhead and profit goal. Profit Starts With Knowing Your Numbers ccapoccia Mon, 03/11/2024 - 10:15 The key to building a successful construction business: knowing and managing your numbers.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Construction bids are critical to winning more work, so it pays to have a solid understanding of what they entail and what you can do to improve your bidding performance. . In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about construction bids. What is the Construction Bidding Process?

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You can’t bid projects right unless you know your job costs, production rates, actual overhead and profit goal. How to Set Financial Targets to Achieve Business Goals ccapoccia Fri, 02/09/2024 - 13:22 The key to building a successful construction business: knowing and managing your numbers.

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Overhead Bidding Profitability Budgeting 156

Job Order Contracting

MAY 8, 2017

Job Order Contracting versus Design Bid Build can help to measurably improve construction productivity, quality, delivery times, and overall satisfaction for all participants. Job order contracting saves significant time and improves quality, consistency, and overall satisfaction vs. traditional design-bid-build. Higher costs.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 23, 2024

This month, we have 40+ product releases across Autodesk Construction Cloud , including Autodesk Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk Takeoff, BuildingConnected, and Assemble. Product Experience | Main Project List Improvements – When selecting a product entry point in the main project list, the selection is saved for future reference.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MAY 24, 2022

It’s the reason we are always adding more enhancements and new features across our products. . To help you keep up with all the new product changes, we’ve compiled all the latest and greatest updates across Autodesk Construction Cloud products. . Scroll down or jump ahead to releases by product: . Autodesk Build .

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 4, 2024

Because owners are shifting away from traditional Design-Bid-Build delivery methods and bringing GCs into the construction process earlier than ever before. When you keep bid packages, vendor quotes, cost estimates and proposals in separate systems, you create disconnected data. For more information, please visit our Privacy Policy.

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Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Safety performance affects your ability to bid and win work and to negotiate contracts. As such, safety is a key driver of a construction company’s productivity, quality and profitability. Smart contractors understand that safety must be both a core value and a strategic priority.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Improve Construction Productivity Via Relationship Management has proven to be highly successful. Here are the 4 Steps to Improving Owner/Vendor Repair, Renovation, Maintenance, and New Construction Productivity. Best Value Procurement – Put aside cost low bid/lowest technically acceptable procurement strategies.

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Products Management Life Cycle Construction 100

Pro Builder

MAY 4, 2021

Utah Builder Forgoes Bidding Wars, Plans to Sell at Listing Price. When Utah-based Goldcrest Homes opened its England Ridge subdivision, the builder didn’t see a need for bidding wars. cbroderick. Tue, 05/04/2021 - 09:32.

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Cassell Construction Estimating

JUNE 16, 2015

Discussing job cost coding with some of our self-performing contractor clients, we sometimes hear that they often use the Owner’s Project Bid Items as a simple and useful structure for cost coding their work on the project. Certainly different job conditions will affect productivity. Barry Cassell.

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 18, 2018

Solving the construction productivity problem however is now attainable for any savvy real property owner. Procuring construction services via low-bid or lump sum simply doesn’t work. The post Flying Pigs and Solving the Construction Productivity Problem appeared first on 4BT. contact-form].

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ENR Construction

MARCH 18, 2021

Compared to a three-month pre-pandemic average, total bidding activity in Autodesk's BuildingConnected platform was up 15% in November 2020 and 36% in January, with January volume representing an all-time high on the BuildingConnected platform.

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Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As a contractor, while your bidding scenario may change, ultimately, you will be faced with the underlying questions, “Where did we get that number?” and, “How confident are we in our number?”

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Carol Hagen

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you want productivity in BIM, hiring for experience is certainly quicker and easier to attain success and brand your new BIM department, albeit more costly. Just because you have hired a BIM staffer shouldn’t mean you go out only bidding projects with BIM requirements. Don’t let BIM stop you from bidding.

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Construction Business Owner

JUNE 8, 2017

Who won the bid? Pertaining to your self-performed work, what are the actual production rates compared to the budgeted production rates? We live in a competitive world. Who has the most marketing leads? What is your safety record? Is work being performed on time, and with the level of quality that is desired?

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Roads Bidding Budgeting Budget 228

Chianelli Estimating

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Does the owner benefit from the lowest bid? Better yet, the committee believed the estimated cost from the accounting department would be met.The final design is complete and is now ready to go out to bid. . Bid packages are distributed to interested contractors and the process begins. . Bids received and opened.

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Construction Cost Estimating

APRIL 25, 2019

Sage facilitates you to produce bids rapidly, precisely and positively with takeoff and cost databases. Sage Estimating also facilitates forecasting the labor, raw material and other overhead costs so that the contractors can arrange & deliver correct bids. Besides, customized reports can also be generated.

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Construction Superintendent Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Increase productivity, lower costs + reduce waste High inflation and labor shortages is a major challenge for many industries, and no more so than in the construction & engineering sector, where productivity has historically always been low. Difficult, especially in a competitive bidding environment.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JULY 18, 2023

This month, we have more than 30 product releases across Autodesk Construction Cloud platform and products, including Autodesk Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk Takeoff, BuildingConnected, and Assemble. Notification | Notifications Button location – Notifications settings has moved from a tab to a button on the left panel.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 8, 2021

Sentence is in line with Contech Engineered Products' plea agreement with DOJ.

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 28, 2018

While we do our best to provide budget estimates that are as accurate as possible, there are inevitably times when projects bids come in higher than the client expected, or that unanticipated costs push the job over-budget. Competitively Bidding the Project.

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Construction Junkie

MARCH 24, 2021

Autodesk announced the impending release of 3 new products , combining the best of all of their existing products and adding new features, at last year’s virtual Autodesk University. Those products ( Build , Takeoff, and BIM Collaborate) are now fully available on a global scale, with Takeoff being the most recent release.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 26, 2023

From start to finish, bidding and procurement workflows are dependent upon robust process and current, granular local market labor, material, and equipment construction task data. Sample KPIs include: • Labor productivity rates. Joint site visits are also necessary prior to the contract award. Health and safety incident rates.

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Management Procurement Forecasting Change Orders 218

Job Order Contracting

MAY 14, 2020

LEAN pre-construction services define the following stages of a repair, renovation, or new construction project life-cycle: Project Conception Project Delivery Design Construction Documents Bidding/Negotiating/Procurement. Improve Productivity 20%-50%. LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery.

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Life Cycle Procurement Construction Renovating 251

HardHatChat

APRIL 11, 2014

For us, this arrangement is far more preferable to the common competitive bid process. In the competitive bid process, clients typically write the smallest check possible up front, but if things go wrong during commercial construction, as they often do with low-quality subcontractors, costs can come back to bite them.

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Commercial Negotiation Bidding Construction 292

Job Order Contracting

MAY 6, 2022

The traditional practice of design, bid, build has proven antagonistic, costly, and unsustainable. Integrated project delivery and LEAN job order contracting have proven capable of significant gains in productivity and associated cost savings. The “system” is broken. Nonetheless it remains the norm.

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Job Order Contracting 2021 is a competitively bid, firm, fixed-price, indefinite quantity contract, and integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery program for as-needed construction services. The UPB reflects Contractors bid an adjustment factor (coefficient) that is applied to all construction tasks listed in the UPB.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 24, 2018

Effective communication and trust are keys to productive relationships with local and federal officials.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Other critical measurements need to be taken into account to track constructions progress and productivity–the primary factors that are going to get teams that wanted success. Below, let’s discuss the importance of construction KPIs and critical metrics your company should be measuring to affect profits and productivity. Key Takeaways.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 30, 2023

Project managers must stay on top of subcontracted costs, bids, deadlines and materials while also juggling jobsite duties and office paperwork — an overwhelming task that is often fraught with stress. But it doesn’t have to be. Please complete the form on this page to download this e-book.

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Constructonomics

JANUARY 28, 2010

In the economic climate that we find ourselves at the moment, it seems that the only projects out there are public jobs where bids are solicited and any warm-blooded creature with a pulse and a remote ability to read plans can submit a price on the job. The municipalities are required by law to accept the lowest responsible bid.

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Construction Cost Estimating

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a useful construction software toward heavy construction contractors that can be applied for construction cost estimating and bid management efficiently. More than 5,000 users from different corner of the world have used this bid management software. Capacity to generate crews instantly.

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Construction Business Owner

MAY 9, 2016

Profit margin shrinkage starts when the estimator prepares a bid based on the cost of completion he thinks a job might require versus the cost history of similar, completed jobs.

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Job Order Contracting

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Productivity and technology adoption have been poor in the construction sector. Their relative level of success impacts society, the economy productivity, and sustainability. Continuous and competent real property owner leadership is a critical success factor.

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Procurement Construction Environment Management 154

Construction Enquirer

JUNE 20, 2023

The notice protects ilke from creditor action while it seeks a buyer after production was halted across its sites and factory last week. The Enquirer understands that ilke is being offered to potential buyers for bids over £1 with a number of major house builders approached over a possible deal.

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