Build America Podcast

Setting of bid prices on a unit price bid can have significant effects on the financial performance of a project. Set your unit prices in your proposals to have positive impact. Be strategic.

http://sjcivil.net/estimating/setting-the-bid-unit-price-2-main-reasons-for-unbalancing/

Formwork

Letters in the construction industry, during the course of a project, usually are reserved for contentious issues or to satisfy notification requirements. Here are six of the most important and common ingredients in these letters.

http://sjcivil.net/claims/top-6-ingredients-of-a-letter/

Continuity Equation

Any noise beyond liquid simply flowing in a pipe is likely not a good thing. Two potentially dangerous noises in pipes/pumping systems are water hammer and cavitation.

http://sjcivil.net/engineering/pipe-goes-bang/

Beam-column

Construction contracts are almost always measured in some sort of day: a working day or a calendar day. In analysis and project communication, kill the doubt for the reader and always define the type of day in every use of the word “day”.

http://sjcivil.net/news/insult-your-client-with-simplicity-day-labeling/

10 Civil Construction abbreviations

A common mistake in estimating is the cost of an overtime manhour.  Overtime is generally not one and one-half times the straight time rate.  It’s usually closer to 1.30.

http://sjcivil.net/news/closer-to-1-30-not-1-50/

Pre-Stressed vs Post-Tensioned