I was recently in a conversation with colleagues talking about horror stories each of us had with residential contractors performing work on our own homes. Everyone has at least one example of a bad experience they had on their home. Mine was a roofing contractor trying to increase the cost AFTER we had signed the [...]
Success for a construction company is dependent upon having an estimate that can be met by the field forces. To achieve this success requires identifying the details. It is having the right scope. This applies to the traditional design, bid, build process along with the design build process. To prepare reliable estimates on any of [...]
Success for an owner is having a budget that can be met at bid time by the contractors. This isn’t due to luck. It is due to the project management team understanding that budget development on a project is not a one shot effort. Budgets for projects are oftentimes bandied about by project participants early [...]
