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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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Fast-tracking construction projects offers both risk and reward

BD+C

Fast-tracking construction projects offers both risk and reward dbarista Mon, 08/14/2023 - 13:50 0 Contractors Understanding both the rewards and risk of fast-tracking a project can help owners, architects, engineers, and contractors maximize the benefits of this strategy and can bring great reward on all fronts when managed properly.

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5 Smart Approaches for Streamlining Your Construction Project

Construction Marketing

However, with the following six approaches, you will streamline your construction projects to ensure you do everything efficiently within the stipulated time and budget. Your construction plan should include clear goals, schedule, budget, equipment, dependencies, and team members.

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Construction Risk Management: What to do when your project goes wrong

Lets Build

There is a number of parameters that you should think about and an efficient management of the risk is surely necessary. In other words, you can’t really define risk on the exact same way in every construction project. Even within the same project, there may be distinct sources of risk. Types of risk in construction.

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Target Value Delivery in lean construction

Lets Build

The principles of lean construction are nothing new, and most construction professionals understand the risks of not using an organised, proven process when taking on a new project. Target value delivery is a design and delivery process, allowing teams to: Collaboratively explore ideas to find the best overall solution.

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4 ways to prevent major bottlenecks in construction projects

Lets Build

Building quality, meeting deadlines , and staying on budget are all factors of success. There’s never an ideal amount of physical space on a construction site, leading to safety risks and logistical bottlenecks. Further reading: 7 ideas to make implementing lean more successful for your construction projects. Risk management.

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The Preconstruction Phase: Understanding the Process & Risks

Levelset

Preconstruction is the initial stage of a construction project where an idea starts to become a reality. The designer helps the client develop budgets, schedules, potential issues, the scope, and other details related to the planning of the entire project. Part of the preconstruction phase is establishing a preliminary budget.

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