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

Rory Woolsey

Scope is the foundation to every other phase of construction estimating. 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.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: The Estimating.

Rory Woolsey

Indeed, an accurate quantity take-off representing the complete scope of work is then the solid foundation to which unit prices are applied. 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.