Executive Summary: How do you pick an attorney, a banker, a certified public accountant, an insurance agent, or an engineer? General: As a contractor, you need the following professional services on a regular basis: Legal Banking Accounting Insurance Engineering...
Calculation of Workers’ Compensation (WC), General Liability (GL) & Bond in your Estimates
Executive Summary: Many estimators do not understand how workers’ compensation, general liability, and bond costs are calculated. This article discusses these calculations and how to properly include them in your bid. Workers’ Compensation (WC): Most contractors...
ACEC Hawaii November Breakfast Meeting (11/03/2016)
“The Crystal Ball of Construction Bid Estimating” Joseph Uno, LEED AP BD+C, President at J.Uno & Associates, Jim Bauckham, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Estimator with Nordic PCL, & Scott Jennings, P.E., President of SJ Construction Consulting gave a great...
No good deed goes unpunished
Proverb #1: No good deed goes unpunished. I’ve got a couple of these proverbs up my sleeve when it comes to construction. This one I normally share with the newbies to the biz, but I find that those that have been around awhile benefit from it too. Where’s this...
Wages and Hours of Employees on Public Works
Chapter 104, HRS Presented by: Pamela Martin, DLIR, Wages Division, September 27, 2016 Executive Summary: We present the highlights of a presentation by the State of Hawaii’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), Wage Standards Division. This is...
Opinion: Engineer Found Negligent for Not Verifying Product Data
Civil Engineering magazine, page 92, June 2016 Executive Summary: Scott Jennings, P.E., M. ASCE, responds to an article published in ASCE’s signature publication, Civil Engineering magazine. Kudos to the project owner for holding the engineer of record responsible for...