It's great that your estimators just landed a new project, but your  competitive advantage can be lost without a synchronized handoff to the field team. Make  sure to have a formal meeting between the estimating and project management teams

before the project starts ...  Read More >  

Contractors unbalance unit prices in their bids to take advantage of anticipated quantity overruns and underruns. An intelligent unbalancing of the unit prices can result in higher profits. Of course, that's the contractors' goal. Review the example provided to see how it's done...  Read More >  

A Washington concrete contractor, Salinas Construction, Inc. (SCI), was awarded $404,000 of its requested $425,000 for a job at U.S. Army Joint Base Lewis-McChord only to see this decision  reversed in district court. The problem was that SCI did not offer expert testimony, despite warnings ...  Read More >