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What Is an Insurance Endorsement? A Contractor’s Guide

Levelset

When working in construction, your insurance policy gets issued as a fairly standard contract. Like a basic construction agreement, you can upgrade or downgrade your insurance policy just as a customer might do with the fit and finish of a building. What is an insurance endorsement? How insurance endorsements work.

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Unlocking the Value of Temporary Housing: A Comprehensive Guide

Contractor Connection

Temporary housing is a critical, yet often underappreciated, facet of the insurance and property management industries. It’s not just about a temporary place to stay; it’s about delivering a comprehensive, insurance-friendly solution. Temporary Housing Temporary housing serves as a lifeline when disaster strikes.

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Unit Price Construction Cost Estimating

Job Order Contracting

Another requirement to enable cost visibility, transparency, and management is a locally researched line-item unit price book database, organized using CSI Masterformat. To mitigate variables, the unit price cost database should only reflect the direct costs of labor, material, and equipment, fringes, and insurance.

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Considering a Job Order Contract?

Job Order Contracting

All prequalified contractors invited to bid should submit sealed bids based on one or more adjustment factors / coefficients to the unit prices listed in the approved JOC unit price book (UPB). The approved JOC unit price book should be locally researched and organized using CSI Masterformat. no use of economic cost factors).

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Construction Safety Management and Engineering – a handy book for beginners

Construction Cost Estimating

Construction Safety Management and Engineering, the much cherished book edited by Darryl C.Hill, has produced its second edition. This book has extensive coverage on implementation of safety and healthy programme of the construction companies. The authors of the books are some of the best know writer in the industry.

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DebunkTheBIM: ?Insurance is all about risk management?

DebunkTheBIM

I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. “Insurance is all about risk management” Says Walid Shidani in his interview given to Rupert Wright, this week. “Insurance is all about risk management” Says Walid Shidani in his interview given to Rupert Wright, this week.

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Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices

Job Order Contracting

Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices involves a mix of strategic and operational steps including a gap analysis of current and planned outcomes. . The coefficient(s) proposed by the offeror and accepted by the Owner are incorporated in the JOC. JOC Characteristics. (a)

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