Estimators come with multiple skill levels and various areas of expertise. Here’s a list of traits and attributes common to many construction cost estimators. 1. Years (typically at least a decade) of experience as an estimator, usually including some form of “field work.” 2. Love of a new challenge. While there are similarities is many/most...Continue Reading

Driven by economic and environmental pressures, facilities management (FM) will…. more rapidly align itself with the core mission, encompass more services, use global standards, embrace flexibility and continuity, focus upon life-cycle sustainability, maintain and end user/client focus, improve supply chain synchronicity, achieve a life-cycle / total cost of ownership perspective, and employ better capital/risk/performance reporting...Continue Reading