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 ...

73rd Annual Edition - Current building costs for residential, commercial, and industrial construction. Estimated prices for every common building material, the labor cost to install the material and a ...

Cost estimators collect and analyze data to estimate the time, money, resources, and labor required for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services. Some specialize in a particular ...

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 ...

– Tariff changes push steel and lumber costs sharply higher. – Expiring energy tax credits add pressure to project budgets. – Architects say cost estimating is increasingly unpredictable. Since ...

Early estimates of the cost of rebuilding Mill Valley Middle School have overshot the spending limit the district had planned from its $194 million Measure G bond. District trustees, presented with an ...