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Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

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Construction projects will never get off the ground without financing. Money sets the gears of construction management in motion. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. What Is a Construction Budget?

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The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

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Construction project management has five phases, the same as any project. Construction phases have different names and require different documentation to begin with. We’ll define in depth each of the five construction phases: initiation, pre-construction, procurement, construction and post-construction.

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Construction Risk Management: An Introduction

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Few things are as risky as construction. The answer is construction risk management. It can be mind-bogglingly complex, which is you should make a detailed construction risk management plan. Let’s take a look at the basics, what a construction project manager is responsible for, and how to deliver a successful project.

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Master Construction Procurement With These Methods

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Construction procurement can maximize the efficiency of a construction project. While construction project management includes all plans and schedules for the project, without the goods and services provided by procurement in construction, it’s only an idea and not a structure. The 5 Construction Procurement Methods.

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What Should You Include in Your Preconstruction Meeting Agenda?

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Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?

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Best Cost Control Techniques

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Whether you’re managing a project in construction or manufacturing, keeping costs down is paramount. Learn how cost control can help you better manage construction or manufacturing projects. Cost control as a process begins with budgeting. Creating a budget starts by allocating costs to each task on the project schedule.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

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By the way, the answer to that question is: “Yes, let me analyze what the impact will be and bring you a recommendation for what that means for our current budget and timeline.”). Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway?