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Outsourced Marketing vs. Staffing for Construction Companies

Construction Marketing

Today, traditional marketing skills are often secondary in importance in comparison to Digital marketing skills, often requiring marketing technology, or MarTech. Outsourced marketing can be more cost efficient than staffing with multi-discipline skills, lower overhead including salary, benefits, equipment, etc.

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Door Closer Hinges: A New Approach

Construction Specifier

Innovative engineering has made closer hinges more compact and functional; the new generation of products provides unique combinations of features and benefits to address door closing challenges that are not satisfactorily met by overhead surface-mounted door closers. Performance. The closer hinges have built-in door stops. Aesthetics.

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Why fire sprinklers belong above suspended drop-out ceilings

Construction Specifier

In addition to these direct cost savings, drop-out ceilings can reduce job-site overhead costs. A detailed cost comparison of penetrating sprinklers and drop-out ceilings is available online, at bit.ly/dropout_cost. Time required to cut holes for penetrations in ceiling panels is also eliminated (Figure 1). Install ceiling grid.

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Types of Estimates in Building Construction

Construction Cost Estimating

Detail Estimate - It contains everything necessary for executing the project together with overhead and contractor's profit. By using this estimating method, the estimator can obtained the required materials, labor, time for successful completion of the project as well as total cost details and overhead along with contractor profit.

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What Type of Hard Hats are Not ANSI Approved?

Work Gearz

So, in this article I’m going to discuss about the categories of hard hats that are not OSHA and ANSI approved and also the comparison of the approved and not approved hard hats. They actually only protect the head from getting bumped on to low-overhead clearances and do not at all protect against flying or falling objects.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

Based upon the size of the project, there is great value for an owner to develop an internal detailed line item estimate for comparison to a builder’s estimate. Thus costs estimates should be prepared WITHOUT OVERHEAD and PROFIT. The estimate is created by the owner and/or the associated AE’s and builders.

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Myths Behind Construction Estimating

Construction Cost Estimating

Proper estimate can reveal the true cost of executing the service in a construction company that contains materials, labor, equipment, subcontractors and overhead as well as preferred profit margin. The estimate can also includes the viable nature of the market one is involved. Speed is the most crucial factor in an estimating process.