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Is a National General Contractor or Local Commercial Construction Firm Better For Your Project?

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Like many of you, we spent the summer enjoying our country’s beautiful landscapes – from the badlands in the Dakotas to the mountains of Montana. Some of you are probably wondering if the travel costs that become part of the general conditions and overall construction budget of a national general contractor are worth it to the client.

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Home-Price Growth Is Slowing, But Buyers Are Still Upping Their Budgets

Pro Builder

Home-Price Growth Is Slowing, But Buyers Are Still Upping Their Budgets. That report indicated that the Mountain region—Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico—saw the largest price gains. Thu, 12/30/2021 - 10:12. Record home prices may be losing steam, but buyers can still expect more gains in 2022.

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Sequestration Nation

Business Facilities

More than two million jobs may hang in the balance as Congress approaches a showdown in its latest manufactured budget crisis. Rocky Mountains Workforce Training/Skilled Workforce budget cuts Obama Sequestration' The post Sequestration Nation appeared first on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine.

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Sequestration Nation

Business Facilities

More than two million jobs may hang in the balance as Congress approaches a showdown in its latest manufactured budget crisis. Rocky Mountains Workforce Training/Skilled Workforce budget cuts Obama Sequestration' The post Sequestration Nation appeared first on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine.

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Exciting products and fresh directions

Cassell Construction Estimating

You can quickly search all your old estimates, (even those created in Timberline or Excel), filter for criteria to much the requirements of a project for which you need a quick budget, and see the comparative results (adjusted for inflation and location), in just a few minutes. We’re traveling out to the Treasure State in early April.

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Black Gold Rush

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Breakthroughs in horizontal drilling techniques, decades in development, suddenly made it possible to pull billions of barrels of high-grade oil out of the huge Bakken shale deposits that stretch continuously across the western half of North Dakota and into the northeastern corner of Montana.

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

Rory Woolsey

In a project management cycle the metrics are Planned , Implemented , Measured (actual vs. budgeted) and then reacted to, correcting for deviations by making changes to the original plan. Cost Control: In the project control loop the projects actual costs are measured against budgeted costs. If scope is wrong a project budget is wrong.