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Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

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Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending? Let’s take a look at what goes into making a construction budget. Learn More!

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Industrial Construction: Examples of Industrial Projects

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This is why industrial construction has special conveyance requirements, such as 24/7 shipping and receiving and accessibility to air and rail transport or major highways. As we’ve mentioned, industrial construction is built in proximity to transportation and needs space to accommodate heavy machinery. Location is another difference.

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Creating a Request for Quote (RFQ) for Procurement

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Managers want to stay on budget and resources cost money, which is why they use a request for quote (RFQ) to get pricing from suppliers and contractors. For example, project owners might submit a request for quotation to a contractor to find out how much would it cost to execute the construction activities in a scope of work.

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Production Scheduling Basics: Creating a Production Schedule

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That means understanding how long production will take and the timeline to transport finished goods to distributors. It includes planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching and execution. Plant layout: This is important as the time it takes to transport materials and process them is part of the larger production schedule.

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Go slow (to go fast later)

Kiron Bondale

The January 2020 issue of PM Network provide a case study for one of the 2019 PMI Project of the Year finalists, the Société de transport de Montréal’s (STM) eight-year project to modernize the underground Montréal rail system. While this would be considered a small mega-project (CA$2.1

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ( budget : US$5.9bn) were postponed as a result of the global pandemic, but investment in infrastructure and megaprojects continues. With more transport links moving underground, the plan is that in the next 10 years this old road becomes a planted walkway through the city.

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How to start a project successfully: Kick-off with the 5W2H method

Inloox

How you get there - on which route, with which means of transport, and with which travel provisions - is the question that needs to be answered in the next step. For this, it may make sense to implement appropriate sales software to facilitate the sales process and its execution. Why will it be done? How much will it cost to make?