Medical care facilities were designed with “normal” care business in mind. They were certainly not designed with the flexibility needed to treat pandemic patients. So let’s examine a few ways healthcare facilities leaders can create facilities flexibility.
Selecting the right green construction materials can be difficult. It’s hard to know which ones truly follow sustainable practices from their raw state to the supply shelf. As you consider materials, examine the process required to get to that end-state material along these five parameters.
Developing accurate cost estimates is tough, but cost item assemblies simplify the process with vetted components for scope completeness and price accuracy.
Sustainable construction begins with innovative design that embeds resource utilization and responsibility in every part of the building and construction lifecycle.
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.
It’s a construction estimator’s job to determine the cost of a building project. Construction estimating is an important role in the construction process.
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.
Read this blog post for an overview of four disruptions to public construction projects due to COVID-19 and one way to curb them.
Stainless steel prices grew 7% from 2019 to 2020. Here are four factors attributing to the recent rise in stainless steel costs.
After our 2020 Construction Cost Changes webinar, we sat back down with two of our data experts to answer your questions about RSMeans Data and construction cost changes coming your way in 2020. Here is the second part of our conversation.
