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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Losing Your Shirt Under Perfect Control
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Losing Your Shirt Under Perfect Control. I heard the Critical Path Method (CPM) defined once as a management technique for losing your shirt under perfect control! Not so funny if you have ever been at the management end of a tight timeline, in an old facility, around on-going operations with the concrete truck on its way and the formwork delayed because the backhoe is out of fuel! This is...
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: It Don't Come Easy!
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Sunday, April 15, 2012. It Don't Come Easy! Construction management in a nutshell is the planning, organizing, implementing. Of a projects time, costs, resources. Construction projects never unfold exactly how they are planned; this is a given! Successful construction management does not just happen. Any construction project failures, the results of which are overrun budgets, costly court battles, project complet...
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: April 2012
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. I realize this is a repeat but. For one I don't have any extra time this week and two. Heaven, Hell and Estimating:. They say that all good jokes are based on bits of truth. I don’t know if this is the case with all humor but it does hit close to home with a joke I heard about the estimating skills of us engineers. The joke went like this; Question:. Scope required to build the project. A...
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Scope, Again?
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. I realize this is a repeat but. For one I don't have any extra time this week and two. Heaven, Hell and Estimating:. They say that all good jokes are based on bits of truth. I don’t know if this is the case with all humor but it does hit close to home with a joke I heard about the estimating skills of us engineers. The joke went like this; Question:. Scope required to build the project. A...
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Costing Construction
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Let’s start with a little bit of sarcasm. Imagine an advertisement for the latest construction estimating software; “…. With click and drag speed you can choose from thousands of line items of unit cost national average data and build accurate cost estimates….blah, blah, blah! There is No Time:. 8221; The budget estimate is just another task that takes from the already limited time in a day.
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Just Trust Me!
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Saturday, March 10, 2012. This week I have chosen to change things up a little bit with an article I wrote back in 2004. For. Contractors and those of us working with contractors this discussion of. Is very relevant particularly in the current. Competitive market. As an example, Job Order Contracting has a strong partnering component that thrives when founded in TRUST. Fades so does the contract! Low Bid; Best Bid:.
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: March 2012
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Tuesday, March 20, 2012. The Estimating Process; Get it Right! I am running tight on time this week so I am posting an article that my son Matthew and I co-authored for an architect/ builders magazine. The article outlines the process of construction estimating.yes it is a process! Even this engineer periodically gets lost in the details and has missed pieces of scope before; please keep this between the two of us.
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: January 2012
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Monday, January 30, 2012. Scope, Scope, Scope! Heaven, Hell and Estimating:. They say that all good jokes are based on bits of truth. I don’t know if this is the case with all humor but it does hit close to home with a joke I heard about the estimating skills of us engineers. The joke went like this; Question:. What is the definition of an “engineer’s estimate”? Scope required to build the project. All contractor...
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Mark It Up!
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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Thursday, May 31, 2012. 8220; What are the” appropriate” markups for overhead, profit and contingency when budgeting facilities construction projects? Starting with a Bare Cost:. This will make sense when we pull all the markups together into ONE markup on Bare Direct Project Cost. . As an allowance markup for general requirements. As a reasonable allowance for home office overhead. For typical facilities repair and ...
