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Construction project management 101 – Checklist

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The term construction project management can be used to describe a vast number of tasks, roles and responsibilities. Read more: How to reduce construction delays by more than 20%. Construction Management 101. For the definition of construction project management, it’s basically PMI’s definition in the construction context.

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More about design drawings and model planning

Construction Cost Estimating

Plans are like a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams that are used to narrate a place or object or to communicate building or fabrication instructions which are drawn or printed on paper and can take the form of a digital file. So these design drawings can be categorized as: • Feasibility studies. Concept drawings.

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Top 5 Construction Strategies to Consider Before Purchasing an Underperforming Shopping Mall

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Englewood Construction is currently engaged in several mall redevelopments across the country. Perhaps the most important aspect in this process will be engaging a national retail commercial contractor for advice and feasibility studies. 1) Don’t be afraid of a big retail construction project.

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Top-Down Construction | What Is a Top-Down Construction | Advantages & Disadvantages of Top-Down Construction

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Top-Down Construction. The easy description of the top-down construction method will help the storeroom surface of the house will install in a system which, after realization of the cellar, will be set up from upper to lower surface by surface. What Is a Top-Down Construction? Procedure of Top-Down Construction.

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Understanding the Performance and Monitoring Phase of Construction

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Undertaking a large construction project is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. Instead of looking at the project as one big job, it’s possible to break almost every project down into individual phases of construction. Once a construction project is finally taking shape, it hits the performance and monitoring phase. .

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Commercial Construction Trends: Why More Clients Are Choosing the Design-Assist Model

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Working with a client on a design-assist or design-build basis, as Englewood Construction is with the reimagining of Stratford Square Mall, allows the commercial contractor to provide valuable input during the initial planning stages. Design-assist is a bit of a hybrid of the design-build process.

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Conceptual Estimating is ideal for project feasibility study

Construction Cost Estimating

Owing to high number of design constraints and intricacy of construction a system known as conceptual cost estimation (also referred to as predesign cost estimation ) has been developed to conceptually estimate the costs for construction industries. Rajib Dey The construction estimating.