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Behind the Build: Interview with Jonathan Mabe, Assistant Project Manager, Eckardt Group

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Jonathan Mabe learned these lessons first-hand as a young assistant project manager at Eckardt Group. We are an electrical contractor and we specialize in hospitals and data centers, so we’re more on the commercial side of things. Walk us through your career and what led you to becoming an Assistant Project Manager.

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5 Ways Contractors Can Improve Profitability

Construction Business Owner

5 Ways Contractors Can Improve Profitability. By following project accounting best practices as they manage budgets and billing, they can help ensure the profitability of each project. How agile project management can help you reduce project risk. How to determine your true costs so you can master the budgeting process.

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Reduce Your Total Cost of Ownership in 2021 & Beyond

Construction Business Owner

Why an equipment management system is right for your business next year. Planning your budget for next year? As such, and given the nature of our fast-moving business, you’ve likely experienced cost overruns and exceeded budgets in various areas related to your equipment. Equipment Management. Equipment Management.

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Don’t Let Rework Devastate Your Deadlines

Construction Business Owner

Of course, some measure of rework in construction is expected — despite your best efforts — and is built into project budgets and timelines. Open lines of communication to contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and other stakeholders. . Outlying Islands U.S. quality management. But that doesn’t make it any less painful.

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How Improved Change Order Communication Can Reduce Risk for all Stakeholders

Construction Business Owner

Project teams are managing 10% of employee time and 25% of a project’s total cost on outdated methods including spreadsheets, email inboxes and paper-based time and material tags. That's when he started Extracker to bring real-time collaboration on project costs between subcontractors, general contractors and owners. Greg Seldon.

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Federal Facilities – Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings

Building Information Management

Job Order Contracting – JOC, is perhaps the only proven, collaborative, performance-based construction delivery method designed specifically for the numerous task faced by facility managers. Performance-based contracts, which include ESPCs, can be performed by any qualified contractor, including utilities. (d)

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

Building Information Management

The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Development Management Associates, LLC. Institute for Supply Management. Prairie State General contractors.