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How Much Contingency to Keep When Building a House

How much contingency to keep when building a house (10 to 15% of the build cost), what it is for, what it is not for, and how to track it...

How Much Contingency to Keep When Building a House

How much contingency to keep when building a house (10 to 15% of the build cost), what it is for, what it is not for, and how to track it...

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How to Budget for Building a House: A Site Mana...

How a construction site manager would budget the build of his own home: cost lines, contingency, quotes, allowances, change orders, payments and a weekly 15-minute routine.

How to Budget for Building a House: A Site Mana...

How a construction site manager would budget the build of his own home: cost lines, contingency, quotes, allowances, change orders, payments and a weekly 15-minute routine.

Running Monthly Cost Control on a FIDIC Contract

Almost everything written about FIDIC is about disputes. This is the operational half: the monthly routine that catches a problem while it is still a cost variance, before it becomes...

Running Monthly Cost Control on a FIDIC Contract

Almost everything written about FIDIC is about disputes. This is the operational half: the monthly routine that catches a problem while it is still a cost variance, before it becomes...

Cost or Cost Plus Profit: What FIDIC Actually L...

FIDIC defines Cost to exclude profit. Some clauses give you Cost, others Cost Plus Profit, and the difference is the whole margin on a claim. Here is how to map...

Cost or Cost Plus Profit: What FIDIC Actually L...

FIDIC defines Cost to exclude profit. Some clauses give you Cost, others Cost Plus Profit, and the difference is the whole margin on a claim. Here is how to map...

The FIDIC Payment Clock: 28 Days, 56 Days and W...

Clause 14 sets out exactly when money moves on a FIDIC job. Read as a cash flow rather than a procedure, it explains why contracts with the right margin still...

The FIDIC Payment Clock: 28 Days, 56 Days and W...

Clause 14 sets out exactly when money moves on a FIDIC job. Read as a cash flow rather than a procedure, it explains why contracts with the right margin still...

Variation Valuation Under FIDIC: The Four Gates...

A quantity moved a long way from the bill, so the rate must change. Not under FIDIC it does not. Sub-clause 12.3 sets four cumulative tests, and the one that...

Variation Valuation Under FIDIC: The Four Gates...

A quantity moved a long way from the bill, so the rate must change. Not under FIDIC it does not. Sub-clause 12.3 sets four cumulative tests, and the one that...