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Notes from the estimating desk

Short, practical pieces on how estimates are built, classed, priced and defended. Written from live projects, names removed.

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The productivity factor on live plants

Shutdown windows, permits and congestion. What a brownfield tie-in does to installation norms, and how to build the factor area by area.

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Treat the shutdown as its own project

The work inside a turnaround window needs its own estimate, schedule and risk model, separate from the months of preparation around it.

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As-builts you cannot trust

Every brownfield estimate leans on drawings of what is already there. What to do when they are wrong, and how to price not knowing.

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