Rory Woolsey

MAY 31, 2012

“ What are the” appropriate” markups for overhead, profit and contingency when budgeting facilities construction projects?” Beyond this, the installing contractor’s overhead(s) and profit will need to be added. Overhead: Overhead is the markup for the general contractor’s home office overhead.

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Estimating Overhead Profitability Remodeling 40

Rory Woolsey

JANUARY 16, 2012

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. construction consultants. The good news is (I think) that I have decided I would start a blog on these topics in construction estimating. Labor Productivity?

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Estimating Construction Overhead Contract 45

Rory Woolsey

APRIL 4, 2012

Bare is exactly that; it is the bare cost of the direct activities less any mark ups for labor burden, taxes, bond, overhead and profit. All direct costs are then adjusted to include home office overhead and profit for the installing contractor. Site overhead costs can be 5% to 15% of the overall project cost.

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Estimating Construction Overhead Budgeting 45

Rory Woolsey

MARCH 20, 2012

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. construction consultants. Typically the published unit costs do not include all the above. Each reference construction cost database handles these components differently.

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Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

A project cost should also include the indirect costs such as site specific overhead (indirectly attributable to all the project direct costs and can be 5% to 15% of project cost), home office overhead, profit, bond, sales taxes and even certain contingencies. construction consultants.

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Estimating Cash Flow Budgeting Budget 40

Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This equates to 75 labor hours x a cost of $60 per hour (with all overhead and burdens) which equates to about 6% additional savings on a typical $80,000 JOC project. Even if it costs you something to have a consultant set it up there is still a potential for 10% savings. construction consultants.

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