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How Bonding Surety firms drive construction staffing.
It may seem unlikely, but one major factor in construction manager staffing is the requirements that surety firms place on construction...
chris
Dec 16, 20202 min read
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How does the booming stock market help the man in the street?
Giving away federal funds to support companies, that results in record breaking stock markets, even while the companies being valued so...
chris
Dec 9, 20201 min read
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Get out your sunscreen! UVC is coming!
There is some new action in the disinfection front – several options are being promoted for in-room UVC disinfection, which is exciting...
chris
Dec 3, 20202 min read
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More news from Notre-Dame
For the restoration of medieval structures geeks on Linkedin: I'm glad to see the project moving forward, if very slowly. See the...
chris
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Risk Mitigation Alphabet Soup - Bonds, OCIP, CCIP, and SDI
Construction is risky. Cost can be hard to predict, weather, unforeseen conditions, errors, accidents and other issues are around every...
chris
Sep 17, 20205 min read
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Mass Timber jumps up in Milwaukee
Permits were issued in July for this proposed tallest in the world 248' height , 25 story mass timber building atop a parking structure....
chris
Sep 4, 20201 min read
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Solar PV is Cool Now!
In my 23 year career estimating construction projects, I have priced hundreds of photovoltaic panel systems for buildings ranging from...
chris
Aug 10, 20202 min read
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Care and Feeding: LEAN in Design and the Estimator
We have all talked about LEAN at one time or another. It is a business management system, developed by auto manufacturers, that strives...
chris
Aug 6, 20204 min read
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Mass Timber Codes Released by ICC
If you know what Mass Timber means, you probably already know that that codes needed to help this new wood structural system be utilized...
chris
Aug 5, 20202 min read
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Care and Feeding: Working on the Schematic Estimate
The schematic estimate is the most useful work product of a consulting estimator. With good input, and a carefully prepared estimate, the...
chris
Aug 3, 20202 min read
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The LEED Model for Diversity
In an opinion piece for Architect Magazine, Aaron Betsky introduced a proposal by Michael Marshall to use the LEED rating system as a...
chris
Jul 23, 20201 min read
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Care and Feeding: How to work with a Consulting Estimator in your Concept plan
The concept estimate is most often based on previous project budgets, which are modified to meet the new program of your project. The...
chris
Jul 17, 20203 min read
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On This Day...
we celebrate the actions that led to the founding of this country. The founders were abolitionists and slaveholders, high-minded, and...
chris
Jul 4, 20202 min read
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Design the job for safety
The construction industry has plenty of flaws, even as it creates some of the most beautiful and inspiring objects devised by humans. ...
chris
Jun 30, 20203 min read
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What is a Consulting Estimator? – Part 1 - One Step Beyond
While working on a courthouse master-plan in New Jersey, our client, the county executive, had been obligated to hire an architect to...
chris
Jun 19, 20203 min read
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Covid 19 Change Orders Phase 3 - Owner Costs
Unfortunately, much of the cost for changes driven by subcontractors and CM's will end up in the owner's lap. But there are costs that...
chris
Jun 5, 20201 min read
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Covid 19 Change Orders Phase 2 - Trade Costs
Subcontractors will be exposed to additional cost as they continue to reopen projects in a time with new work rules and risks. Labor...
chris
Jun 1, 20202 min read
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Covid 19 Change Orders Phase 1 - CM Costs
The general rule of thumb for construction is that if you want it, you have to buy it. Changes to work rules, locations, schedule and...
chris
May 22, 20201 min read
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How to manage the troops when they are all at home:
ENR’s new issue interviewed several leaders at large design firms and what steps they are taking to manage during the COVID 19 crisis:...
chris
May 21, 20201 min read
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Are Forgivable PPP Loans about to be part of Change Orders?
Author James Gallagher asks the question, and discusses the various parameters of this completely untested idea, that changes in...
chris
May 21, 20201 min read
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