Duck, duck, cloud, goose

The Utah SCR and getting your money other ways.

genDEX

Four sets of plans. Each one successively inserts clouded areas with a triangled number indicating the change in the revisions table…EXCEPT for the last one. Nope instead on that one the engineer either missed it or purposely did it but added only about 200’of RCP. Not on our bid. Not on any of the previous plans. Not in our changes summary we submitted to the GC but now we are expected to bear the full brunt of this. What say ye?

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The hypocrisy of it all: When a supplier can’t

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Typically contingency % for building

Everywhere I look I see 5-10% as typical. That said there is currently a 26 million dollar public works project that only set aside 2.5%. From there the GC doesn’t book change orders but strictly as contingency expenses but then turns around and claims a low amount of change orders which isn’t true. So rather […]

New CO ratio to be included in future genDEX

It isn’t integrated yet as details are still being worked on but the general idea is that GCs seem to be really good at booking credits and back charges and REALLY slow at approving change orders. This can greatly affect pay apps and cash flows. A slight difference might be expected because of presentation to […]

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