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Are Your Hotel General Contractors Checked In or Out?

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Luxury stand-alone hotels in large urban areas, mid-market hotels geared toward business travelers and budget stay family friendly hotels have all helped boost the commercial construction industry this year. That’s why scheduling and staging work is so vital to a hospitality construction budget and timeline. percent in 2013.

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Top 10 Contractor Mistakes

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Staying proactive during projects by recognizing pitfalls and taking appropriate steps to avoid them limits accidents, ensures budgets and timelines remain on schedule and creates a more positive work environment. But they also know that working smart helps limit issues. Ignoring Proper Equipment Management.

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How To Improve The Management Of Construction Site Inventory

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Keeping track of inventory storage is especially tricky as a surplus of resources ends up bloating your budget while taking up valuable space. ERP software can inform you of possible inventory needs through smart forecasting. Other areas aided by MRP include delivery scheduling and production planning.

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Best Practices for Financial Management in Construction Projects

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Grasping the burden rate in construction is also vital for accurate budgeting. Utilizing financial planning in the construction industry helps in forecasting and mitigating risks. Effective Budget Planning Budget planning is the cornerstone of financial management in construction projects.

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Improve Cash Flow Forecasting with Autodesk Construction Cloud

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Without being able to accurately forecast cash flow, making important decisions about the future of your firm or projects is a risky venture at best. The challenge with forecasting is that it’s often a time-consuming process making sense of scattered data , various spreadsheets, and multiple disconnected processes or systems.

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Living in a Materials World

Viewpoint Construction Technology

With better foresight into a project’s needs, project managers can order materials and schedule deliveries to stay ahead of the game, keeping a project on schedule and on budget without frustrating the delicate balance of on-site needs, all by keeping the right materials flowing.

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LEAN Collaborative Construction Practices Construction Cost Estimating

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In general terms are an actionable construction cost estimate should reflect approximate costs developed for a complete schedule of detailed construction line item tasks/activities after consideration of all physical and functional requirements and possible cost variations. . This may impact allocation of resources to the project.