Construction Cost Estimating

AUGUST 20, 2015

In order to deal with a construction project, the project manager should have the required skills which range from technical know-how to leadership, negotiation, team building and communication. It is a sententious reference book improves the basic knowledge of a project manager to a great extent.

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NH Construction Law

APRIL 26, 2020

When contracts and subcontracts are negotiated, it is common for written drafts and redrafts to circulate between the parties, sometimes with a letter of intent to enter into a contract thrown into the mix, and sometimes with competing forms being used – a proposal or bid on one side, an expansive formal contract on the other.

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Carol Hagen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

What SharePoint does best is collaboration when dealing with “working” documents like construction contract negotiations. I have also seen it widely embraced to relieve the need for shared drives and to offer project portals for job documentation.

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cnstrctr

AUGUST 10, 2019

Typical responsibilities on any given project can include: Project Document Administration – managing all submittals, RFIs and documents on the project. Schedule – managing the overall schedule including preparation, updating and dealing with issues. Soft Skills. Hard Skills. Team Management.

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Construction Law Monitor

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Construction contracts are historically confusing documents and they contain a bunch of popular provisions with confusing interpretations like pay when paid clauses , indemnity provisions, claim notice requirements, and more. Provide the contract documents to us, and we’ll turn around a review in a day or two. Related articles.

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Best Practices Construction Law

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

When dealing with construction claims—whether one for construction defects, outstanding payment, or delay damages—an initial hurdle is making sure that proper notice has been given. This decision illustrates the importance of following a process when dealing with a claim. Assess other pertinent documents. If not, why not?

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Construction Cost Estimating

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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. Arrange and interpret tender documents, specifications, general conditions, and other parts and forms of contracts.

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Construction Law Monitor

AUGUST 24, 2012

In a perfect world, general contract presents the subcontract document to the subcontractor, and that sub has its lawyer review the contract to see if the terms can be negotiated so that its a fair document for all involved. This article deals with a hot construction law topic, pay-when-paid vs. pay-if-paid clauses.

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Construction Business Owner

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Tip #1: Negotiate Fuel Costs. Before you go down the negotiating path, be sure you know your overall consumption by gallons. There is certainly a great deal to learn about this issue. document management. They shared these tips and tricks with me on fuel management. Hopefully you’ll find them as helpful as I did.

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Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

However, I received many comments and questions on the “Negotiating JOC” blog from last week that really should be answered. The database is at the heart of JOC just like bidding documents are at the heart of a design-bid-build delivery. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Thursday, February 16, 2012.

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Construction Law Monitor

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The information is very helpful to contractors and can be used a resource when a contractor begins the contracting phase of a construction project to help get a better understanding of what is going on within the contract documents. Here both parties need to negotiate terms to better protect when a dispute arises.

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Help Everybody Everyday

MARCH 6, 2009

Deal Breakers. Better to Avoid, but Don’t Lose a Good Deal. Incorporating documents that are not plans and specifications, including the contract between the Owner and the General/Prime Contractor. Attempts to make you indemnify the entire project or insure the upstream party for its own acts.

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Best Practices Construction Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Bidders would instead have to submit all of their DBE information with the bids themselves (allowing for possible exceptions for negotiated procurements), and failure to do so could result in the bid being disqualified as non-responsive. Additional Safeguards. The proposed rules also “create additional safeguards for DBEs.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Contract negotiation and formation. Once the owner selects a bid, they’ll move on to the contract negotiation and formation stage. Here, the owner and contractors would come up with an agreement and produce a formal document outlining the terms of the project. . You were missing documents and information.

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Chianelli Estimating

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The first stage of a construction project, called the conceptual phase, deals with the broad strokes of a construction project and begins to identify how objectives can be most efficiently met. Construction Documents. To this point, the construction process would be thoroughly documented. They are: Scope and Budget.

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Work Gearz

DECEMBER 21, 2021

You do not receive any legal document or contract once you pawn your things at a pawn shop. Selling your boots will get you a much better deal than leaving or even selling them at a pawn shop where you will only receive a fraction of the actual price. No official contract.

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Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This argument is hard to convince owners and contractors as they expect the documents you provide as part of your service to contain enough information for your design to be fully realised. The best way to deal with this Right is for authors to stipulate what their BIM model has been created for (i.e. demand payment for its use.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

With over a million contract documents licensed on an annual basis, the AIA’s form construction documents are the most widely used contract documents in the industry. And such is a big deal in this consideration when the Department of Defense is the largest owner of green buildings.

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CivilJungle

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A tender will be a draft legal paper in which a particular act will notify official documents and discharge the capable artisan interested in filling it and taking the project. Tenders are of several kinds, counting open tender, selective, serial tender, and negotiated tender. Negotiation Tender. Negotiated tender.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Without well-integrated systems, you may have different versions of necessary documents living in different systems with potentially different data, muddling the facts and opening you up to making critical mistakes. An issue arises and the project manager can’t track down documentation to verify if a task was completed.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 21, 2014

We are committed to helping make that future a reality,” the bank said, in an internal document acquired by The Detroit Free Press and posted online. Welcome back from the Dark Side, banksters. The bank will direct half of the $100 million in loans and grants to community projects.

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Best Practices Construction Law

JUNE 22, 2022

Here are a few more lessons when dealing with a delay on a project: As a contractor, you need to first review your contracts for a “no damages for delay” clause. If one is present, then you will want to negotiate an “active interference” clause that defines what constitutes an active interference.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Negotiate a fair deal that allows the bank to get something and you get something, a win-win and you will find more great deals coming your way in the future. Obviously scanning all your paperwork into a paperless secured server and link source documents to the transactions in QuickBooks for easy retrieval later is a given.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Kansas explains that “In most Construction Documents, it is inevitable that the agreement, drawings and specifications will not adequately address every single matter.” The worst thing you can do is not respond at all, so be mature and deal with the situation quickly. Specifications.

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CivilJungle

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Construction risk management system keeps the detailed document of all-possible risks for easy to address them. Contractor risk management system deals with an experienced organization of contractors, we can assess, identify, and control the risk of the construction project. Construction Manager at Risk Pros and Cons.

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Building Information Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

This is especially important when dealing with an older design. Define and document a structured approach to size your acquisition [Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Element Structure (CES), models, analogies with other acquisitions, market survey plans, etc., or combinations of these]. or combinations of these]. Market Research.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AUGUST 5, 2013

The first was not unexpected, although China’s lead in developing alternative energy is expected to shrink as its ability to spur solar panel production is eliminated by trade negotiators enforcing a WTO decision citing China for subsidizing its industry. 7 ranking in this category.

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ProcurementExpress.com

JULY 15, 2019

While the average time it takes to receive payments in construction is between 60 and 90 days, you can improve the speed of receivables by sending invoices immediately, offering incentives for early pay, adding clear payment terms into your contract, and running a thorough credit/reference check before closing a deal.

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ProcurementExpress.com

JULY 15, 2019

While the average time it takes to receive payments in construction is between 60 and 90 days, you can improve the speed of receivables by sending invoices immediately, offering incentives for early pay, adding clear payment terms into your contract, and running a thorough credit/reference check before closing a deal.

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Construction Law Monitor

MAY 1, 2014

As I discuss on this blog often, large scale projects have all these contract terms covered in the extensive documents that are executed at the outset by the parties. It is a powerful negotiation tool. Arbitration is binding and Mediation is when the parties get together to try and work out a deal.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Develop a Detailed and Documented Process to Recover Extra Services – Without clear guidelines and processes to follow, all of your employees will deal with extra services requests differently. It is a lot easier to deal with these uncomfortable conversations in the beginning before the stress of the project has begun.

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Building Information Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This interim document contains our current views on best practices in the use of task and delivery order contracts, in particular multiple award contracts, as authorized by the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA). Agencies have gained a great deal of experience using single award ID/IQ or task order contracts.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 7, 2021

The project proposes sustainable solutions for Detroit’s 48204 ZIP code • Led the initiative to transition from CAD to BIM construction documentation and introduced several technical innovations to streamline operations • Created a custom BIM content library with hundreds of host components and subcomponents.

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Building Information Management

JULY 10, 2014

Another approach to flexibly dealing with proprietary or unusual items is to build in a contractual provision to allow for a material price over-ride, based on documented costs of proprietary material.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 19, 2014

Nathan Deal announced that Inalfa Roof Systems, a leading global provider of vehicle roof systems, will expand its recently completed 165,000-square-foot regional headquarters in southwest Cherokee County by an additional 45,000 square feet. In February, Georgia Gov. Photo: flickr.com/photos/gdecd). 1 business climate.”.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 15, 2014

The terms are negotiated specific to each firm’s individual needs and situation with a maximum limit of 3% of Capital Expenditures. High Impact Performance Incentive: A negotiated grant used to attract and grow major high impact facilities in Florida. For more information visit [link] or contact Bernice Whaley , Deputy Director.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 21, 2014

25 MILLION DEAL-CLOSING FUND: Arizona has taken a progressive position by offering attraction funds to companies meeting performance measures that benefit both the company and the citizens of Arizona. Lenders negotiate their own fees and the USDA charges 2 percent of the guaranteed amount as a one-time fee.

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