Blog Grid – Cost Planner

Phases (or Stages) of Design

Different words may be used for each phase of design by various people… and this can affect, or confuse, the timing, content and quality of ...

Fully Enclosed Covered Area (FECA)

The sum of all areas at each building floor level, including basements, floored roof spaces, attics, garages, enclosed porches & attached enclosed covered ...

Cashflow

The nature of the construction industry is such that projects can take a year or so to build… Now, no builder is likely to wait this long before getting paid, so payments ...

Winston Marsh Seminar: How to turn your business into a money making machine

Winston Marsh Seminar: How to turn your business into a money making machine To download this file click here (146mb - Right-click and select 'Save link ...

First Principles Pricing – Generally

‘First principles pricing’ is the good old-fashioned estimating that is part of every cost planner’s bread’n’butter… And though it is not something that …

Site Penalties : Generally

These are items you always need to be considering as they will take away (usually not negotiable) costs from your job, and, if the budget available is ...

Project Management (…is not the same as Construction Management)

Project Management – which may sometimes be confused with Construction Management – is a process for putting a whole project together, and is not just ...

What is the Budget?

Now, this question above might sound like a pretty basic question. But try it out on your client. You might find they have some trouble giving an answer! However, it ...

Cost Planning – What is it?

Cost Planning is monitoring, managing and maintaining a project’s cost… relative to a budget. The correct application is more than just ‘forecasting’, as this really ...

Documents : Contract Documents

Is the Contract Set of documents the same as the Tender Set? And is the Construction Set of documents the same as the Contract Set? ...

Labour Constants

Labour constants may be roughly defined as a guide of “how much work someone can do in how much time”. In reality, this is not an exact science and ...

Tendering – Trade Cost Summary, in tendering submissions

It is important, on all projects, to ensure that the Tenderers’ include a Trade Cost Summary in their tender – no matter how small the project! This makes it easier ...