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The high cost of low maintenance

BD+C

This article will identify the primary causes of engineering failures, define proactive versus reactive maintenance, recognize the reasons for deferred maintenance, and identify the financial and safety risks related to deferred maintenance. The longer maintenance is deferred, the more the structure deteriorates.

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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?” Beyond this, the installing contractor’s overhead(s) and profit will need to be added. Overhead: Overhead is the markup for the general contractor’s home office overhead.

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Autodesk Construction Champions 2023: 25 People Powering the Future of Construction 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Princeton University   Alec Overn Business Manager, Modular Power Solutions, Dallas, TX Alec joined MPS in 2019, and implements the organization’s objectives, policies, and performance standards as well as oversees overhead departmental functions. Kim has been a champion of Autodesk Construction Cloud.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: The Estimating.

Rory Woolsey

The realities of the site such as weather, on-going operations, soils conditions, access/ egress, security, safety, site lay-out, environment protections and other context scope must be considered as well as the means and methods that the work will be executed. These all impact the overall cost of the project. construction consultants.

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

Rory Woolsey

Think like a contractor and include the scope of means and methods for executing the work as well as the scope issues relative to the context (location, weather, traffic, safety measures, economic conditions, availability of resources…) of where the project is built. 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

With JOC the extent of the design will stop at a place where a building permit can be issued and all of the life and safety code issues are emphasized. This equates to 75 labor hours x a cost of $60 per hour (with all overhead and burdens) which equates to about 6% additional savings on a typical $80,000 JOC project.

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List of Common Construction Abbreviations

Job Order Contracting

OH: Overhead. OHD: Overhead Door. SE: Structural Engineer. SFGL: Safety Glass. SGG: Structural Glazing Gasket. STRUC: Structural. STRUCT: Structural. SV: Safety Relief Valve. NTS: Not To Scale. O: Oxygen. O TO O: Out to Out. OA: Outside Air, Overall. OB: Obscure. OBS: Obscure.