Rory Woolsey

JANUARY 30, 2012

All contractors have faced this at one time or another where they were low bid on a project and learn as the job unfolds why they were low bid. 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.

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Estimating Construction Engineering Structural Engineering 40

Rory Woolsey

MARCH 20, 2012

Architects and engineers define scope in plans and specifications but for construction estimating this scope is incomplete. Successful "hard bid" contractors know very well that scoping construction goes well beyond the AE scope and must include field specific scope. He is also affiliated with The Wool-Zee Company, Inc.,

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Estimating Construction Overhead Structural Engineering 40

Rory Woolsey

APRIL 24, 2012

All contractors have faced this at one time or another where they were low bid on a project and learn as the job unfolds why they were low bid. 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.

Estimating 40

Estimating Construction Engineering Structural Engineering 40

Rory Woolsey

APRIL 4, 2012

The first crisis will occur when the contractor bids are greater than the budget estimate. Published construction cost data is also very helpful for budgetary estimating and for checks and balances in bidding. It is here that you can ask the customer to cut scope or return to the funding source and ask for more money. Woolsey, MBA.

Estimating 45

Estimating Construction Overhead Software 45

Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Double Check Phase: All good cost estimates are checked and double checked prior to establishing it as the project budget or bid price for a project. Time schedules, resource schedules and cash flow plans all come from a well thought out cost estimate. Building a project before a project is built! construction consultants.

Estimating 40

Estimating Cash Flow Budget Budgeting 40

Rory Woolsey

MAY 31, 2012

Estimate Contingency: Defining and capturing the scope of work is the key to accuracy in estimating (and bidding) projects (particularly with renovation projects). 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.

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Estimating Overhead Profitability Remodeling 40

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 6, 2022

High-trust firms are half as likely to have problems linked to slow data exchanges and twice as confident about meeting their budgets and project schedules. Now, architects and structural engineers are working side by side with the general contractor. Twice as confident about meeting project schedules and budgets.

Construction 52

Construction Estimating Design Budget 52

Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2012

This study was conducted for the US Army Engineer Research and Devel-opment Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) by Hitchcock Consulting, Kelsey, CA, under Contract W912HZ-09-D-0003 (0761), “Life-Cycle Model of Mission-Ready and Sustainable Fa-cilities—Schedules for Building Space Requirements.”

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Documentation Equipment Modeling Design 40

Building Information Management

JULY 2, 2012

This study was conducted for the US Army Engineer Research and Devel-opment Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) by Hitchcock Consulting, Kelsey, CA, under Contract W912HZ-09-D-0003 (0761), “Life-Cycle Model of Mission-Ready and Sustainable Fa-cilities—Schedules for Building Space Requirements.”

Documentation 40

Documentation Equipment Modeling Design 40

Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Giana started her career in civil and structural engineering, working on both domestic and international programs. For ten years she delivered significant projects, proving her construction prowess and gaining experience across the engineering and construction industry. Dwayne has transformed the safety team.

Construction 52

Construction BIM San Francisco Management 52

Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

This week the blog topic is on “Negotiating” unit price line items taken from national estimating guides on competitively bid contracts that are publically funded and subject to audits. Mr. Woolsey has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil/ Structural Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration.

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Negotiation Estimating Contract Construction 45