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Price Per Square Foot Construction Cost for Multi Story Office Buildings
Time again to look at the current construction market activity and analyze construction costs per square foot for various types of office buildings. How much does it cost to build an office building? Below is some data from RSMeans construction cost data that we keep a close eye on in order to estimate construction costs [...]
Construction Cost per Square Foot for a Police Station
In an ongoing series to maintain the most updated construction cost information available to us from RSMeans, the leader in construction cost estimating, new data has come out for the construction cost per square foot for Police Stations and similar facilities. The highest cost per square foot is in New York City at $311.29 per square foot while [...]
Construction Cost per Square Foot for Jails
In an ongoing series to maintain the most updated construction cost information available to us from RSMeans, the leader in construction cost estimating, new data has come out for the construction cost per square foot for Jails and similar facilities. As you can see, the highest cost per square foot is in New York City at [...]
Installation Complete for Solar Panels on Arvada Annex Building
EVstudio recently had the opportunity to observe the installation of the forty photo-voltaic panels atop the City of Arvada Annex Building. To maximize the potential for solar collection the use of an existing steel framed sight wall originally designed to screen the Annex’s roof top heating and cooling mechanical units from being viewed from street [...]
Construction Cost per Square Foot for a Post Office
In an ongoing series to maintain the most updated construction cost information available to us from RSMeans, the leader in construction cost estimating, new data has come out for the construction cost per square foot for Post Offices and similar facilities. The highest cost per square foot is in New York City at $177.35 per square foot [...]
Construction Cost per Square Foot for a Courthouse
In an ongoing series to maintain the most updated construction cost information available to us from RSMeans, the leader in construction cost estimating, new data has come out for the construction cost per square foot for Courthouses and similar facilities. As you can see, the highest cost per square foot is in New York City at $269.00 [...]
2009 Code Update: Deck Attachments
The 2009 International Residential Code has new provisions concerning the attachment of decks to homes. Most significant in this is the new hold-down tension device requirement of R502.2.2.3. This device is illustrated below and will certainly add construction costs to deck addition projects due to the invasive nature of the interior tension device attachment. From [...]
Getting Nailed: A Brief History of Nails
Unless they get one in their car tire I am willing to bet that the average person does not spend a lot of time thinking about nails. I actually do think about nails quite a bit, but then again I am a structural engineer who, for years, has specialized in timber construction. But how long [...]
Can You Choose a Contractor on Cost? Does Hard Bid Work?
Hard bid pricing is a standard in the building industry that after several years in decline appears to be making a come back. In a hard bid situation, multiple contractors take the same set of plans and specifications and at the end of the bid period provide a cost for the project. The bid can [...]
Quickly Construct Concrete Pad Footings with FASTBAG
At a recent seminar I attended I was introduced to the Fab-Form product called FASTBAG. This product is brilliantly simple….a textile bag you can fill with concrete and reinforcing bars to take the place of the wood formwork traditionally utilized to construct pad footings. The bags come in multiple sizes designed to replace standard pad [...]
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