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Drafting Effective Cost Estimates

Construction Business Owner

From the outset, project and construction cost estimating is critical to ensure that the anticipated project and construction costs meet budget expectations. The cost estimate should provide the construction team with the information necessary to accomplish the following:

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

Job Order Contracting

Classification enables information to be used for multiple purposes, individually and generically, such as determining initial and final scopes of work (SOW), cost estimating, capital planning and deferred maintenance management, space utilization, life-safety/security, levels of compliance, and mission dependencies.

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Pre-Bid Documents and Estimates Can’t Be Hidden Behind the Curtain in Disputed Delay Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

The dispute is currently in the discovery phase and the City filed a motion to compel the contractor’s internal pre-bid documents and bid estimates, as well as the subcontractor’s base documents. The contractor’s $15.7 million delay claim included approximately $2.3

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Bird Friendly Building now the Law in Howard County

Green Building Law Update

Since 1970, the researchers estimated, the North American bird population had declined by roughly 29%. A 2014 study, conducted by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution and the Fish and Wildlife Service, estimated that between 365 million and 988 million birds are killed in the United States every year as a result of building collisions.

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FEDRAMP is Hindering Facilities Management in the Federal Sector

Job Order Contracting

Here is a draft memo from OMB regarding FEDRAMP revisions, that: [link]. It is now understood that requiring FEDRAMP certification in not in the best interests of federal government agencies and departments for many, if not most applications. Please review the following which clearly support this fact.

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New York DOT Releases New Draft Study on I-81 Replacement

ENR Construction

14 on estimated $2B project to replace the Syracuse viaduct, which aims to resolve dislocation impacts to the city's Black community when the highway was built in 1968. Comments are due Sept.

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10 key responsibilities of a construction project manager

Lets Build

Draft contracts. The key is in estimation. See costs, estimate, compare and cut unnecessary costs to stay within budget limits. Draft contracts. All the work that needs to be done in the project should be written in a draft contract. I’m talking about the draft contracts with: The architects. Stay on budget.