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Trending: The Rise of Prefab and Modular Commercial Construction Techniques

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can have a positive impact on a construction project’s schedule and budget. Sure enough, as the cost and time savings of manufacturing elements off-site were realized, prefabrication and modular models evolved over the years and became more commonplace, and the type and variety of elements being prefabricated expanded.

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How to Choose the Best General Contractor to Partner with for your “First” Commercial Construction Project

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Taking the guess-work out of conceptual construction budgets: One of the biggest unknowns with a “first” construction project can be budget. The best way to limit those unknowns is by working with an experienced general contractor with extensive historical data to use as the basis for a sophisticated construction pricing model.

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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast

Building Information Management

Department of Energy, the Institute and others should encourage cities and smaller communities to adopt and enforce updated model codes. budgets, insurance and tax incentives) to help finance sustainable life-cycle performance for buildings and related infrastructure. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. The Martha Manning Company in Collinsville, Illinois wanted to build a 100,000-square-foot dress factory—with a budget of $10 per square foot. . It was a “seemingly impossible” budget; closer to $15 or $18 a square foot would have been more realistic.

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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast

Building Information Management

Department of Energy, the Institute and others should encourage cities and smaller communities to adopt and enforce updated model codes. budgets, insurance and tax incentives) to help finance sustainable life-cycle performance for buildings and related infrastructure. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S.

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Susan Bowman sets the example

The Korte Company

She was definitely a great role model to teach us how to treat people. Louis Union Station and even a $21 million job for NASA. These days, her job involves monitoring the daily cash position, financial investments, 401k program, stockholder communications, taxes, year-end audits, annual budgets and the company’s credit card program.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Jake Lester, VDC Manager at Rogers-O’Brien and Andrew???? Schluterman, VP at HKS

Autodesk Construction Cloud

My dad's been in construction, and so I went into the carpenters' union out of high school. I started in 2015 and back then, we were collating individual models from the architectural side, sending those out to our consultants, and then down the line as it gets to the construction side. It really affects the schedule and budget.