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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?” ” I get this question a lot from my architect friends when helping them budget their projects through the design process. This is not unusual at the early to mid-phase of design.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A New Year in.

Rory Woolsey

Rory is currently with The Gordian Group, leaders in expediting construction procurement through Job Order Contracting. Rory Woolsey has worked in Management and Engineering for the construction industry for 35 years, starting as a construction laborer in Billings, Montana, in 1972. Labor Productivity? construction consultants.

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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.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: The Estimating.

Rory Woolsey

Rory is currently with The Gordian Group, leaders in expediting construction procurement through Job Order Contracting. Rory Woolsey has worked in Management and Engineering for the construction industry for 35 years, starting as a construction laborer in Billings, Montana, in 1972. He is also affiliated with The Wool-Zee Company, Inc.,

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Losing Your Shirt.

Rory Woolsey

A project cost should also include the indirect costs such as site specific overhead (indirectly attributable to all the project direct costs and can be 5% to 15% of project cost), home office overhead, profit, bond, sales taxes and even certain contingencies. He is also affiliated with The Wool-Zee Company, Inc.,

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A Savings Analysis!

Rory Woolsey

Ed Carrigan asked: “Do you believe there is a savings between JOC program and a bidding process (design-bid-build)?” For multi-trade repair and improvement type projects, Job Order Contracting will win out on a savings analysis over design-bid-build. ” Thanks for the question, Ed. This is the secret.