Blog: Design & Estimating

How can you build an estimate for a large, complex project and be confident that your figures reflect actual market costs for different locales? It’s a difficult task. Luckily, there are tools designed to address this exact problem: The City Cost Index and predictive cost data.

To successfully create collaborative construction cost estimates, you need to understand the roles being played, appreciate how roles affect each other, establish a common organizational framework and designate a “conductor.” Learn more in this blog post.

Construction estimators are a crucial part of the construction process. It's a construction estimator's job to determine the cost of a building project. But as simple as that may sound, construction estimating requires a lot of skill.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently updated their Cost Estimating and Assessment Best Practices Guide. Read this to learn how RSMeans Data Online can help Federal estimators apply the new GAO recommendations to construction cost estimates.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upset the North American construction industry in a variety of ways. Disruptions in work have been particularly painful for public construction. Read this blog post for an overview of four disruptions to public projects and one way to curb them.