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Kansas City airport terminal costs approach $2B

Construction Dive

The price tag has almost doubled from estimates during the bidding phase, which the development team attributes to airline design changes like adding gates and airplane parking spaces.

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BNSF Opens New Logistics Park Intermodal Facility In Kansas

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

BNSF Railway introduced its new Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) Intermodal Facility in Edgerton, KS in October, 2013. LPKC is projected to help create an estimated 7,400 jobs in the area of the development and 13,000 jobs in the state of Kansas at full build-out. Rose, BNSF Railway chairman and chief executive officer.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Greater Kansas City: Silicon Prairie. We’ve found this in Kansas City. Rick Perry in a statement.

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Katoen Natie USA Announces $150 Million Baton Rouge Area Facility

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

LED estimates the project will also result in 516 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 700 new permanent jobs. The 2 million-square-foot indoor storage complex is being designed with an extensive rail yard by CRA Engineering Group of Baton Rouge. The logistics platform will create 210 new direct jobs.

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Job Order Contracting – Audit Results

Building Information Management

Labor rates were not billed consistently with the labor rates that were actually paid to employees thereby costing the city $73,742. Certain construction activities and related charges were billed at rates much higher than rates generated by comparable resources designed to evaluate the reasonableness of proposed construction charges.

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Job Order Contracting – Audit Results

Building Information Management

Labor rates were not billed consistently with the labor rates that were actually paid to employees thereby costing the city $73,742. Certain construction activities and related charges were billed at rates much higher than rates generated by comparable resources designed to evaluate the reasonableness of proposed construction charges.

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A guide to warehouse construction costs

The Korte Company

And, since every project’s needs are different, there’s no cookie-cutter way to get an accurate estimate for warehouse construction costs. It is your building partner’s duty to discover cost-saving design solutions that will keep costs down and build up value. The value of an experienced estimator. Easy, right? Well, maybe.