Construction Informer

As always happens, when work gets scarce people start questioning the bid awards, especially when it comes to public projects. What they start questioning too might raise some eyebrows.
The city of El Cajon, CA, wanted to build a police department and went out to bid for the project thinking it would cost $48 million. What [...]

I recently spent some time with J.F. McCarthy’s excellent book, Choosing Project Success. If ever there was a volume that speaks to the person who loves to build this is it. McCarthy covers some very in-depth information while keeping the reading task manageable. Early parts of this book take you on a journey to discover [...]

Here are some interesting web tools, and one thing on the horizon, that promise to make the flow of construction project information quicker and more accurate.
If you’ve been thinking about bringing together all of your communications efforts there are some companies that are making that easier. The idea is to have all of the information [...]

More and more software functions continue to move online and estimating is no different. From at least one perspective this is advantageous since you are all aware of the time and cost involved with maintaining software on your computers and servers. RS Means just announced the availability of their online square-foot cost calculator so [...]