Enhance Construction Cost Estimating – 5 Steps
Enhance Construction Cost Estimating – 5 Steps.
Improve construction cost estimating?
1. A detailed, well-communicated Scope of Work is critical to the success of any project whether repair, renovation, maintenance, or new construction and the associated use of commonly understood, standardized terms, definitions, and data architectures (expanded CSI Masterformat, UNIFORMAT…).
2. Early and ongoing communication and collaboration among owners and design/builders during the planning, procurement, and project delivery phases based upon a robust integrated framework.
3. Development of a shared detailed Scope of Work
4. A detail quantity take off and associated objective current, locally researched line item construction cost database.
5. Owner leadership, capacity, and accountability.