by Gaurav Mehrotra | Jul 24, 2020 | Cost Controls, News, Podcast
Executive summary. Field overhead carries different names with different contractors and owners. Discussed here is what field overhead is, and why it’s important for owners to understand. Project estimation. When a construction project is estimated, a good estimate...
by Gaurav Mehrotra | Mar 12, 2020 | Contracts
Executive summary. Ensure that before you sign a change order, all of the necessary components of your negotiation are included. Here’s what to look for in a change order before you sign it. And don’t forget – you don’t have to sign it. What is a change order? It’s a...
by Gaurav Mehrotra | Oct 9, 2019 | Cost Controls, News, SJCC
Executive Summary. Contractors are often brought into a project in the design phase to minimize cost. Here are some guidelines on infrastructure project cost cutting measures from a Contractor’s viewpoint – it’s advice to a design team. How estimating is done. In...
by Gaurav Mehrotra | Jul 31, 2019 | Claims, Podcast, SJCC
Executive Summary. How many RFIs (requests for information) are too many on a construction project? Is it time, is it possible, to tie the number of RFIs on a job to the cost impact suffered by a contractor? What is an RFI? “RFI” is an acronym standing for Request for...
by Gaurav Mehrotra | May 14, 2019 | Cost Controls, News, Publications
This article was originally published in CFMA’s Building Profits April 2019 Sometimes financial situations can cause a contractor to fail. But these mishaps can likely be avoided. Forecasting and managing the timely implementation and execution of cost controls can...
