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Commercial Construction Project Planning: 3 Warning Signs Your Budget Might Go Bust

HardHatChat

Budget is always a major consideration for our commercial construction clients, and as a general contractor we devote significant time to the budgeting process. Here are a few signs that, in our experience, indicate your project budget is more likely to bust: Skimping on Professional Services.

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Sharing Your Budget Streamlines the Pre-Construction Phase

Wolgast Corporation

Here is one secret of the trade to save significant time during pre-construction, by giving your contractor a ballpark budget before design and/or estimating starts, an owner can take a shortcut in the preliminary phase and get to construction sooner. We can come to the owner with ideas without delays.

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Preparing Independent Government Estimates – IGEs , IGCEs

Job Order Contracting

Preparing Independent Government Estimates – IGEs is fundamental to achieving best value outcomes. Most Independent Government Cost Estimates are Not Well Documented. This has lead to the vast major of construction cost estimates (80% or more) being inaccurate. FAR 36.203. FAR 2.101 and 13.000. Owner Leadership.

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The Rise of the Modern Estimator

Autodesk Construction Cloud

What we in America call Estimators, and what the rest of the world calls Surveyors, have been around for thousands of years. Today, estimators are the unsung heroes of a project team. That doesn’t mean they didn’t exist before then, because even God needed an estimate. Watch our Estimating Master Class.

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Construction Estimating Made Easy

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Using a web- or cloud-based software solution is also the best way to increase your estimate accuracy and improve profitability. Quick, accurate estimates can be a fast and efficient way to grow your business. If you’re still using paper to estimate and bid, you know it can be a slow moving, time draining process.

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How much should you budget for projects/pursuits

Construction Marketing Ideas

The question of how much to budget for proposals and pursuits can be a challenging riddle. Nevertheless, there are good arguments for benchmarking and budgeting this stuff — both the hard and soft costs (labor), and with these cost in hand, you can also determine your historical success results and thus your overall business plans.

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Role of an Owner JOC Program Manager

Job Order Contracting

A critical role of a Owner JOC Program Manager is the ability to review and negotiate JOC Contractor Estimates. The actual technical review of a cost estimate submitted by a JOC Contractor may be done by in-house estimators or owner’s representatives/consultants with appropriate capabilities and business relationships.