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Price from a construction plan, not a drawing
Why crews, durations and access set the estimate on heavy civil and marine work, and how to build the plan before pricing a single quantity.
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A WBS that survives construction
The estimate structure is inherited by cost control, scheduling and claims. How to build one all three can live with for five years.
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Taking off quantities from drawings that are not finished
At Class 4 the drawings are incomplete by definition. The discipline that turns partial information into defensible, traceable quantities.
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