Blog: Planning

For people who manage facilities, tracking data about the care of physical assets is standard practice. But how data is tracked and what is done with it remains inconsistent. Discover what benchmarking and data analysis can do for facilities in this blog post.

We take an inside look at this year’s Advancing Preconstruction & Estimating show, which brought together industry professionals to discover best practices and tools for efficient preconstruction.

The sweet spot of efficient construction estimating is in the convergence of cost, accuracy and speed. Here are four critical elements to make sure you have optimal efficiency in your estimating and preconstruction processes.

The process of value engineering is trusted by design teams to help project owners make the most of their resources and build trusting client relationships. This breakdown of value engineering will cover a brief history of its creation, when to use this tested methodology for optimal benefits and what steps are required in the process.

Last spring and summer, we used RSMeans data to track wild swings in steel costs. Last fall, we noticed a significant cost slow down. Check out where steel prices settled at the end of 2018 in this edition of What the Data Says.