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8 essential steps for effective project cost estimation and budgeting

Fieldwire

Finding your niche can benefit your brand, gaining repeat business from general contractors and design-build construction firms. Construction project stakeholders expect you to self-regulate and reflect on whether you’re up to the task. Integrating overhead expenses into estimates accurately is simple.

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What are Preliminaries in Construction Contracts?

Lets Build

The easiest way to define preliminaries in construction is as a group of items necessary for a construction company or contractor to complete a project but that won’t become a part of the finished work—site overhead, scaffolding, powering the site, etc. The costs of design work. Planning and design costs. Site security.

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Door Closer Hinges: A New Approach

Construction Specifier

Innovative engineering has made closer hinges more compact and functional; the new generation of products provides unique combinations of features and benefits to address door closing challenges that are not satisfactorily met by overhead surface-mounted door closers. The closer hinges have built-in door stops. Photos © Michael Chusid.

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Army Job Order Contracts FAIL to meet AFARS requirements MOST OF THE TIME

Job Order Contracting

Army Job Order Contracting per GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, ARMY FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION SUPPLEMENT ( AFARS ) Subpart 5117.90 – Job Order Contracts 5117.9000 Scope of subpart. Architect-engineer services as defined in FAR 36.102 and Design-Build requirements as defined in FAR 36.3

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Advancing Healthcare: Medical Office Buildings at the Forefront of Access and Safety

BD+C

Today's MOBs are designed and built to address the needs of the communities in which they are located. MOBs present an opportunity to achieve these goals, simultaneously producing new efficiencies and trimming overhead expenses. While primarily designed for safety and security, these systems offer far more than just locked doors.

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Can Bump Caps be Worn Backwards?

Work Gearz

When you are working in constrained spaces where head protection is a must, yet there are no chances of getting hit by falling or flying object, but instead you can hit your head yourself against overhead hanging objects or low-ceilings, that is when you have to choose a bump cap instead of a hard hat. Cons of wearing bump caps backwards: ?

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The Simple Guide to Repair, Renovation, Construction Cost Control

Job Order Contracting

Proper design, implementation of an OpenJOC Job Order Contracting Program ensures that the numerous repair, renovation, and minor new construction projects encountered by real property owners and facilities management teams are successfully completed within an approved budget. At minimum cost estimates should be reviewed quarterly.