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Phases of Commercial Real Estate Development

Construction Marketing

Commercial real estate development involves the process of acquiring, designing, constructing, and leasing or selling commercial properties such as office buildings, retail centers, and industrial parks. You must secure financing for the project. This includes creating a detailed project schedule, budget, and phasing plan.

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

Job Order Contracting

For CONUS, the JOCPB shall be developed using commercially available pricing tools to ensure consistent and comprehensive pricing of tasks unless the contracting officer determines the use of a commercially available pricing tool is not in the best interest of the government. Appointments of ordering officers under each JOC must be minimized.

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Skanska USA Announces 99M Office Development in Washington, D.C.

Construction Superintendent Magazine

. -- Skanska USA Commercial Development has plans to start speculative development of 99M, an 11-story, 234,000-square-foot Class A office building with ground-floor retail/restaurant space in Washington’s Capitol Riverfront submarket. Skanska is self-financing 100 percent of the development costs.

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Continuous Job Cost and Billing Data for Project Managers

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The reasons most often cited for dated information are lack of access to this data at the right time, query driven reporting and a reliance on accounting/finance for information. This leaves project managers guessing as to their gain/loss versus the original contract estimate and their over/under billing.

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Modular Building as an Emerging Construction Industry Choice

Constructonomics

When business owners and potential home owners envision building an office or residence or expanding on an existing structure, they often limit themselves to traditional construction methods. The timeline of a traditional construction project begins with the financing, followed by breaking ground.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Principles Improve Construction?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Data from past jobs can help you predict possible waste, as can feedback from your crews, your project managers and even your back office team. To keep processes on track, construction sites need tasks, deliveries, inspections and all other parts of the job to be scheduled properly and carried out in the right order.

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Construction Management and Quickbooks

Carol Hagen

The challenge is achieving an integrated solution with estimating, scheduling and project management capabilities while addressing detailed job costing. As your contracting firm grows your needs typically outgrow what you can do with Microsoft Office so where’s a GC to turn?

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