Contracts and Estimates
The builder agrees to complete the project as described in the plans and specifications for a fixed sum...
What is Lump Sum Contract ?
The square footage of a room 15.5 feet long by 23.75 feet wide...
What is 368.125
The individual that calculates the materials, labor, and equipment needed to complete a construction project...
What is a Estimator ?
When using this machine you MUST use a push stick to move the stock you are cutting through the blade in order to protect and secure the safety of your hands...
What is Table Saw ?
The calculation of the approximate amount of material and or labor requirements to build a construction project. They are prepared from finished working drawings and project specifications...
What is Estimating ?
The builder is paid for all the costs of the construction project " plus " an agreed fee...
What is Cost Plus Contract ?
Linear Conversions, Area Conversions, and other calculations...
What are Mathematical Equations ?
The person responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and all the communication of information to all the parties involved throughout the course of a building project...
What is General Contractor ?
You should NEVER use these muscles when lifting heavy objects...
What is Back ?
This stud is a supportive construction element usually used above a door or beneath a window...
What is a Cripple ?
The builder does not bid the for the whole job; instead, he or she quotes a set of individual prices for each of the work involved...
What is Unit Price Contract ?
7,527 feet = _________ inches
What is 90,324 inches ?
Detailed measurement of materials and labor needed to complete a construction project and is an important part of producing an accurate construction project estimate...
What is a Quantity Take-Off ?
How often should ladder inspections take place ?
What is everyday prior to using the ladder ?
The builder first investigates the current market values of the types of homes he or she intends to construct. Then, the cost of a certain design of a home is estimated to determine if it can be built for the market price or value....
What is Value Based Pricing ?
The decimal conversion of 23/32...
What is .71875 ?
This type of hammer/ mallet is used when installing flooring in order to prevent damaging the flooring during installation...
What is Rubber Mallet
Wearing a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen are precautions that should be taken to protect workers from...
What is Sunlight ?
The builder first investigates the current value and market prices of the types of homes he or she intends to construct. Then, the cost of a certain design of a home is estimated to determine if it can be built for the market price and value...
What is Value Based Pricing ?
Budgets are established from the project estimate to show the amounts available to build a project. As the work progresses, further estimates are needed each month to determine and control: How much work has been done, what is has cost so far to do that work and what it will cost to complete the project.
What is Cost Based Pricing ?
Base ( ft ) x Height ( ft ) / Divided by 2 = ( sf ) is the mathematical equation for finding out the square footage of this shape...
What is a triangle ?
Budgets are established from the project estimate to show the amounts available to build the project. As the work progresses, further estimates are needed each month to determine and " control ": How much work has been done, what it has cost to do that work, what it will cost to complete the project...
What is Cost Control Estimates ?
To warn workers about an open stairwell in a construction site , a ______ color sign should be used...
What is Red ?