Budgetary estimates are often an overflowing well of frustration for building owners and their representatives. There are just so many ways a budget can go bad. Often, budgeting mistakes can be traced ...

Like the familiar adage, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?,” every building project starts with the same conundrum: Should the client and its design team establish a budget and design a ...

Think of how often you have been unprepared for a meeting or another important engagement. Opportunity is lost when we are unprepared. Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing ...

Preparing an estimate for a painting job requires knowing all the details the service will entail. Certain jobs may include extra duties along with the painting, requiring you to inquire regarding the ...

The practice of lowballing the costs and value of local construction projects in order to pay lower fees on building permits should get a lot harder next month.Staff from Aspen's and Pitkin County's ...

It’s an extraordinarily exhausting time to estimate costs in the construction industry. Lumber prices skyrocketed during the post-pandemic construction spree, only to come hurtling back down to Earth ...

A description and location of the work. Required completion date, if any. The name and phone number of your department's contact person. Except for very complex projects or where the scope of work is ...