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What You Should Know Before Taking a Construction Loan

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Finding your dream home with all the unique features within your budget and in the perfect location can be challenging. Before approving your loan, the lender must review your projected budget estimates, detailed construction plans, and construction timelines to decide on your loan amount. How construction loans work.

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Commercial Construction Delivery Methods: 3 Times To Go With A Negotiated Bid

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The GC then works with the client to budget the job based on pricing from subcontractor partners. Many large or complex construction jobs are budgeted and built out in phases. Maybe the lease deal is taking longer than expected, or maybe there are design changes requested during municipal approvals. It’s A Multi-Phase Project.

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Understanding the Performance and Monitoring Phase of Construction

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The performance and monitoring stage is a phase in which the project’s progress, timeline, and budget are constantly assessed in order to keep the job on track. During this phase, the architect builds on the rough ideas provided during the preconstruction phase to produce sketches, drawings, elevations, and other features.

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Construction project management 101 – Checklist

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Additionally, the basics and essentials of budgeting, finance, organisation, scheduling, conflicts, and legal issues are also covered by the project manager. Managing a construction project is a complicated role dealing with complex tasks that get modified from project to project. All work begins in this phase. Procurement.

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5 Ways to Upgrade Project Management Practices for 2022

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Contractors have to deliver a quality project within budget and on time while keeping the revolving door of subcontractors happy. Make sure contract documents such as specifications, drawings, progress reports, and requests for information (RFIs) receive proper authorization. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 09:52. That’s no easy feat.

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Force majeure in construction: Protecting your projects from unforeseen events by investing on preparation

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As force majeures are as defined unforeseen, the best way to deal with them is to prepare for any worst case situation. Before starting your project, you should communicate with all project stakeholders the general plan and schedule including your preparation plans and clauses dealing with specific situations that may arise.

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Understanding Today’s Separation of Landlord and Commercial Tenant Construction

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While I think everyone in the retail industry likes to hear news that 2011 retail sales are up – as it usually means new retail construction projects are in the pipeline – it’s still tough for shopping center landlords to make deals work with retail tenants. Because it can become a bad game of “who’s on first?” Turnkey from spec.