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Cost Estimate in Construction

Job Order Contracting

Creating a cost estimate in construction requires experience not only in estimating but in actual construction tasks. Field experience on job sites is necessary in order to gain a full understanding of situational requirements. I would even argue that a site visit should be mandatory in addition. Preparing multiple reasonable detailed estimates efficiently as requires using a line item construction cost database.

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Sherriff's Drone Locates Stolen Construction Equipment Worth $400K

Construction Equipment

Detectives in Cecil County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland detectives used one of the agency’s two recently purchased drones to locate nearly $400,000 in stolen construction equipment stashed behind a barn on an Elkton-area property, police reported Thursday. This was the first official CCSO drone mission since six agency deputies and Sheriff Scott Adams earned their FAA licenses to fly the small unmanned aircraft systems after purchasing the units with seized funds, passing a written exam and rece

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Twenty Unique Benefits For Contractor QuickBooks Desktop In The Cloud

Contractor Bookkeeping

QuickBooks Online Is Not The Same As QuickBooks Desktop In The Cloud. At a quick glance, it is easy to think that all QuickBooks files are the same no matter if it is on your desktop or in the Cloud because it appears to be the same product. Nothing could be further from the truth.QuickBooks Online is slow and clunky and changes early and often so just when you think you understand it.

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Sheriff's Drone Locates Stolen Construction Equipment Worth $400K

Construction Equipment

Detectives in Cecil County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland used one of the agency’s two recently purchased drones to locate nearly $400,000 in stolen construction equipment stashed behind a barn on an Elkton-area property, police reported last week. This was the first official CCSO drone mission since six agency deputies and Sheriff Scott Adams earned their FAA licenses to fly the small unmanned aircraft systems after purchasing the units with seized funds, passing a written exam and receiving prac

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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A simple blogging idea: Take a picture, tell a story

Construction Marketing Ideas

Darren Slaughter has provided an idea if you are a contractor having trouble figuring out a blogging topic. It is elegantly simple. “Take a picture, tell a story.” He continues: Tomorrow, when you are on the job site, take a picture of whatever it is you are doing. Don’t make it a completed picture where […].

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Cosentino Group Relocating Americas HQ From Texas To Florida

Business Facilities

The Spanish natural stone, quartz, and recycled surfacing company’s headquarters relocation will create 85 new jobs and invest more than $1 million in the Coral Gables community. Read Cosentino Group Relocating Americas HQ From Texas To Florida on Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions.

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Equipment Leasing and Finance Industry Confidence Remains Strong in March

Construction Equipment

The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation released the March 2017 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI) this week. Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $1 trillion equipment finance sector.

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Bearing of the Green

Business Facilities

A new study reignites the never-ending debate on the value of economic development incentives. Read Bearing of the Green on Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions.

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Some useful construction tips to compute the sliding safety factor for cantilever retaining walls

Construction Cost Estimating

This construction article is extracted from an exclusive article written by Javier Encinas, the renowned professional engineer Javier Encinas. The article sheds light on how to compute the sliding safety factor for concrete or masonry cantilever retaining walls. Retaining walls are specifically created to encircle soils among two dissimilar elevations.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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CEO Confidence in the Green Industry

Green Industry Professionals

Take our two-minute survey to see if CEOs in the Green Industry are as optimistic as other industries.

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Some useful construction tips to draw influence lines for truss members

Construction Cost Estimating

This construction video is extracted from a lecture delivered by a construction professional. The video focuses on the importance of influence line for effective structural analysis as well as process for drawing influence lines for truss members. This video exemplifies a truss bridge. The structure is undergoing a moving load. In order to design the structure flawlessly, the outcome of the moving load on each truss member should be determined.

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Agencies Court Project Stakeholders With 3D Visualization Tool

ENR Construction

Recently added cloud capability increases ease of use of RDV model.

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How to Successfully Use Email Marketing to Drive Conversion

Construction Marketing

Don’t be so quick to blame email marketing for your woes. It may not be email itself, but rather, how you send email. Email open-rates may be underwhelming, but email has a ROI of 3800% , higher than any other digital form of marketing. So clearly, email can be very successful. What’s important is what you do with it. Your first step is to identify who your audience is.

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

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The Business Development Mix: Do You Have the Right Stuff?

ENR Construction

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Demo Begins on Former Air Traffic Control Tower at SFO

ENR Construction

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Mortenson to Build in Colorado the Largest Single-Phase Wind-Energy Project in North America

ENR Construction

The 600MW Rush Creek Wind Project will be home to 300 turbines and an 83-mile transmission line near Limon, Colo.