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8 Steps to Avoid Being Busy & Broke

Construction Business Owner

Almost every contractor’s goal is to win more work than he or she currently has scheduled. On paper, they figured they would make more money, as their overhead remained constant while their revenues grew. When the economy was slow, contractors worked hard to keep crews busy and break even.

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Busy & Broke

Construction Business Owner

Almost every contractor’s goal is to win more work than he or she currently has scheduled. On paper, they figured they would make more money, as their overhead remained constant while their revenues grew. When the economy was slow, contractors worked hard to keep crews busy and break even.

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Understand the No Damage for Delay Clause, Part 1

Construction Business Owner

The potential for delay in completion poses a substantial risk to every project budget and schedule. Contractors are faced with increased office overhead and extended general conditions costs, wage and material escalation and potential inefficiencies.

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8 essential steps for effective project cost estimation and budgeting

Fieldwire

CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULING SOFTWARE Easy construction project scheduling with Fieldwire Learn more → 2. Determine indirect expenses You must estimate insurance, bonds, indirect field expenses and overhead costs. Integrating overhead expenses into estimates accurately is simple.

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Construction Schedule Delays - The Leading Cause of Disputes

Construction Dive

If the owner is responsible, the contractor may be entitled to a mix of direct, overhead and impact costs. If a delay is due to contractor-caused problems, it may result in costly liquidated damages. On larger projects, thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars per day may be at stake.

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Viewpoint: The Case for Neutral, Third-Party Schedulers | ENR.

ENR Construction

Survey Schedule. Viewpoint: The Case for Neutral, Third-Party Schedulers. I was recently asked to participate in a debate on scheduling specifications at Stanford University. A representative from the contractor sponsoring the conference would take the position that most scheduling specifications were onerous or unnecessary.

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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. Free eBook: Guide to a digitised QHSE organisation. Planning and design costs.

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