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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: It Don't Come Easy!

Rory Woolsey

Following establishing a good project “plan” is the organization of that plan into tools that can be used to implement the project. Examples of project organizing tools are budgets, schedules, cash flow diagrams, manning charts and resource schedules. Construction project leadership comes with experience.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Losing Your Shirt.

Rory Woolsey

Knowing where the key project metrics such as time , costs, resources , and cash flow are relative to a datum (the project plan). Good project managers will always know where these project metrics are because they are indicative of the immediate health of the project. Scope, scope, scope!! Enough said!

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A New Year in.

Rory Woolsey

I have figured that I have facilitated about 8,500 hours of classes on estimating, Job Order Contracting, and project management related topics. We construction estimators are at the front end of this cycle and should expect a busier year for budget estimating. Labor Productivity? construction consultants.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Costing Construction

Rory Woolsey

” The budget estimate is just another task that takes from the already limited time in a day. Sadly, some budgets are derived from a “click and drag speed” application of software. Unit pricing is thrown at a project from a data source with little thought given… verbatim! construction consultants.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Mark It Up!

Rory Woolsey

“ What are the” appropriate” markups for overhead, profit and contingency when budgeting facilities construction projects?” ” I get this question a lot from my architect friends when helping them budget their projects through the design process. Thursday, May 31, 2012. Mark It Up!

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Scope, Scope, Scope!!!

Rory Woolsey

The reality is engineers (and architects alike) do not have the best track record for budgeting project costs accurately. Rory Woolsey has worked in Management and Engineering for the construction industry for 35 years, starting as a construction laborer in Billings, Montana, in 1972. Not so funny, but so true.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Scope, Again?

Rory Woolsey

The reality is engineers (and architects alike) do not have the best track record for budgeting project costs accurately. Rory Woolsey has worked in Management and Engineering for the construction industry for 35 years, starting as a construction laborer in Billings, Montana, in 1972. Not so funny, but so true.