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Common Types of Construction Contracts And Their Use

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A construction contract is a tool that you can use to help outline these requirements. What exactly is a construction contract, how can it be used and what are the different types? A construction contract is a document that outlines the roles and responsibilities between two or more parties on a project. Lump Sum Contracts.

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Choosing QuickBooks Version For Your Contracting Company

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Which Of The Five Types Of Contracting Do You Do? You need QuickBooks to track all your construction and overhead costs and generate Bank Draws and Work-In-Progress (WIP) reports against budgeted estimates to monitor progress which we have in our QuickBooks Setup. Do you remodel existing homes and commercial spaces?

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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. The inventory of houses on the market is declining which is good for residential construction and on the commercial side there are many aged facilities that are in need of renovation or replacement.

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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?” Beyond this, the installing contractor’s overhead(s) and profit will need to be added. Overhead: Overhead is the markup for the general contractor’s home office overhead.

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Is the Economy Turning Around?

PSMJ Resources

Anecdotal chatter among PSMJ consultants and on the LinkedIn networking site among A/E industry professionals leads me to think the answer to this is yes, even though the hard data that comes out from the American Institute of Architects (the Architectural Billings Index) and FMI says we are either at the bottom or haven't quite reached it yet.

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A Cash Flow Guide for Architects

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You’re providing a service to your customers, but your contracts are often lump-sum , and billings are often determined by the percentage of completion. Where direct labor is the percentage of salaries that are spent on billable work (rather than overhead time). Budget categories. Example of revenue projection.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Costing Construction

Rory Woolsey

Bare is exactly that; it is the bare cost of the direct activities less any mark ups for labor burden, taxes, bond, overhead and profit. All direct costs are then adjusted to include home office overhead and profit for the installing contractor. Site overhead costs can be 5% to 15% of the overall project cost. Woolsey, MBA.