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Construction Estimating & Employee Incentives

Viewpoint Construction Technology

From estimating and project management practices to compensation and business management, contractors are finding a “new normal” in every aspect of their business. The hour long presentations will leave you with some tips and ideas to help you manage your construction business.

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Objective, reliable, and veriable Construction Cost Estimates

Job Order Contracting

Both quanitites and costs should be presented in terms of a granular construction task. Quantities must leverage consistent, industry standard units of measure. Costs must be current, objective, and locally reserached. Each construction task should be unique and identifed by using a standard data architecture (i.e.

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Right-Sizing Your Advertising: How to Create a Construction Advertising Machine

Construction Marketing

Second, and most important, the process of writing down and visually organizing your own product’s presentation is your first step toward developing the skill of identifying effective layout and presentation when it’s done by others on your behalf. Presenting the Premium and the Offer.

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February 2015 newsletter

FDR Safety

To be effective, safety programs must identify potential hazards actually present in a workplace and then prescribe engineering controls, administrative controls and/or personal protective equipment and other processes that address those potential hazards. Task-based risk assessments are a great tool for this process.).

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Job Order Contracting Guide

Job Order Contracting

Labor rates are for direct labor, without overhead and profit, however include fringe benefits and allowances for Social Security and Medicare taxes, worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance and employee benefits. Payroll taxes and workman’s compensation are included in the labor rates.

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Email Sent After Final Payment Held Insufficient to Preserve Timeliness of Claim Against Government

Best Practices Construction Law

Final payment does not bar a claim where the contracting officer knows that the contractor is asserting a right to additional compensation, even though a formal claim has not been filed. Based upon the record, the Board concluded that the contractor never presented, let alone formulated, a claim for extended home office overhead.

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No Longer in the Dark: A Primer on the Distinction between Delay and Disruption Damages in a Construction Dispute

Best Practices Construction Law

The contract allowed for “delay damages” if the Contractor’s request for those damages “is determined to be compensable.”. A project that finishes on time but at greater expense because of disruptive events or scheduling errors presents a claim for disruption damages. Owner-Related Delays. The Court’s Decision.

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