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Practical knowledge for specialty contractors

Compliance, change management, project controls, and the data discipline that compounds across bids. Written for California specialty subs — owners, PMs, estimators, and the field.

1 of 47 articles in Field for PM tagged assemblies. Clear

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Productivity rate capture — today's timecard becomes tomorrow's bid

The estimator's productivity assumption is the single biggest source of bid variance. The fix is a feedback loop, and the loop only works if timecard data lives in the same system as the assemblies.

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