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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

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Drawing up a construction quality management plan will enable you and your staff to identify potential liabilities or risks, and implement techniques to mitigate them. If it’s a new situation, it may be necessary to devise workarounds to issues as diverse as legal risks, worker training, or cash flow concerns.

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A Plumbing Contractor’s Guide to Insurance Coverage

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In this respect, general liability insurance or workers’ compensation could help cover those costs if an incident should occur. . Liability for damage. Even small disputes in the construction industry can have a negative impact on time and cash flow. Third-Party Insurance: What’s the Difference?

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The role of a quantity surveyor in construction sector

Construction Cost Estimating

Liabilities of a Quantity Surveyor: A Quantity Surveyor (QS) is a professional who mainly deals with construction costs and contracts associated with the Construction Industry. Once tenders are approved, the Quantity Surveyor arranges cash flow data for the client to outline his resources sufficiently to fulfill contract commitments.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Drawings have been used by designers for centuries to communicate ideas to the construction trades. Until recently, those drawings were produced by hand, but in the last 25 years or so, computers have become the primary tool people use to produce construction documents. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

These did not show up on the drawings. In addition to the initial question, there is usually additional correspondence, drawings, sketches, submittals, email discussions, sub and vendor input, design team input, owner input, pricing and other information, which, can be quite a pile of “stuff” to keep track of. Wally Evans Blog.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

But, with a variety of systems, drawing types, documents, forms, and data in a variety of electronic formats, efficiently communicating project information is difficult. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites. A lot of this communication revolves around the project documentation. Wally Evans Blog. Recent Posts.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

To begin a discussion of cloud computing, let’s draw some analogies from the world of public utilities. To draw an analogy, imagine a situation in which individuals connected their own personal power generators to create a shared power grid. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites. Power Stations & The Grid.