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Twelve Free Ways For Contractors To Get Through The Recession

Contractor Bookkeeping

Free Construction Change Order Template. In the Spirit of friendship please take what is right for you and leave the rest and feel free to pass any of them along to anyone you wish with my compliments. Free One Hour Consultation. Free Construction Invoice Template. Free Construction Estimate Template. Free Time Card Templates.

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Commercial Construction Tips: Six Best Practice Resolutions for 2011

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With your commercial general contractor on the front lines of all design plans and in charge of selecting the engineer and architect, you greatly reduce the risk for unnecessary change orders. Also, negotiated projects foster more team spirit, which is a great way to begin any collaboration. Take a leap of faith.

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Oh, By the Way — six years of estimating ideas and insights

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Good estimates also catch out flaws in the plans and documents — perhaps leaving room for change-order profits or (I think more ethically), giving the estimator the opportunity to communicate and clarify the potential problems with the design team or owner before bidding the work.

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Learning and listening: How contractors and designers should work together

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This is still business, keep the fees separate & never preform extra work w/o a signed change order. Make sure you give the designer credit for the design in any advertising, newsletters, etc…. Why are these observations so important for marketing? Well, consider who provides important referrals or (worse) negative reviews?

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Relationships, ethics and marketing: Where are the boundaries?

Construction Marketing Ideas

If price is the criteria, then usually some sucker or desperate business takes the work, hoping for the best but usually heading down the road to bankruptcy (assuming the low bid really is fulfilled at that rate and there aren’t any tricky change orders underneath the surface.).

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Construction Company Failure Root Causes

Contractor Bookkeeping

Please accept them in the Spirit of friendship, respect and honor as I intend them. Not using Additional Work Orders or Change Orders (Click For FREE Change Order Template). I apologize in advance if anyone is offended by the direct nature of the statements below. Construction Company Failure Root Causes.

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Federal Construction Contractors Are Faced with the Double Whammy of the Pandemic and Price Escalation: What Can Be Done?

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

From what we have seen, neither the letter nor the spirit of these memoranda has been implemented. The memos appear to provide some flexibility to agencies in evaluating “requests for equitable adjustments on a case by case basis,” and granting relief under the changes or suspension of work clauses.