How much contingency should you budget for your project?

Contingency is a part of the budget set aside to cover possible project problems. Generally, contingency is there to cover ‘unknown conditions’ or conditions that could not have reasonably been known.  Unknown conditions are a fact of construction and there is really now way to completely avoid them, contingency prepares you for them. How much contingency you put in the…

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How fees consume your project budget.

Every Project Costs Money People know that every project has materials, labor, and equipment costs, but people often forget about the cost of design, permitting, and management fees. All of these costs and fees can be reasonably predicted, and the more you know about the project details, the more accurately you can predict project costs. People may opt out of…

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