Tag Archive for ‘construction cost’
Construction Cost Per Square Foot for Multi Story Office Buildings
In an effort to keep our information current with a constantly changing economy, I am posting an update to the series on Estimated Construction Costs per square foot for Multi-Story Office Buildings. Below are three charts from RSMeans construction cost data that illustrates the cost per square foot for new construction sorted by region from the most expensive to the least expensive. The [...]
Connecting Wood Deck Railing Posts with the Simpson DTT2Z
Meeting the 2009 International Building Code requirements for with timber construction hasn’t always been the easiest thing. I found early in my career that the traditional methods of fastening wood deck railing posts to wood decks did not meet building code criteria (some frighteningly so). The method I developed to properly achieve code compliance wasn’t [...]
Cost Per Square Foot for Construction for Medical Office Buildings
In an effort to keep our information current with the moving economy, I am posting an update to the series on Estimated Construction Costs per square foot for Medical Office Buildings. Below is a chart from RSMeans construction cost data that illustrates the cost per square foot for new construction sorted by region from the most expensive to the [...]
Estimating Today Magazine features article by EV Studio
Estimating Today Magazine is the nationally distributed official monthly news magazine of the American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE). The February 2011 edition of Estimating Today Magazine is all about the Construction Specification Institute’s (CSI) MasterFormat, which is the North American formatting standard for construction specifications. This edition features an article written by Elicia Ratajczyk, [...]
Construction Cost per Square Foot for Hospitals
EVstudio has been involved with a variety of medical spaces and similar types of construction. This post focuses on the construction costs per square foot for two different sizes of hospital facilities – based on number of stories. The data for these charts is courtesy of RSMeans, the world leader in construction cost estimating Among the two [...]
Cost per Square Foot for Construction for 8 to 24 Story Apartment Buildings
EVstudio has a large body of collective experience with Multifamily and Apartment projects and we keep a very close eye on industry trends for construction cost as they are directly relevant to the our projects and clients who need to be ever vigilant with their cost control and project budgeting. This post focuses on a [...]
Construction Costs per Square Foot for Nursing Homes by Region
We are always studying the costs of various project types that we design so that we can leverage historical construction cost data against future project budgets. This post focuses on a project type we are highly experienced with: Nursing Homes, or also commonly known as Long Term Care Homes. Our source for this data is RSMeans, [...]
Understanding Project Construction Costs in Terms of Monthly Payments
One of the most important program elements for every project is the project budget. While many people will make design decisions based on the bottom line cost, an increasingly popular trend these days is to calculate what the cost of that decision equates to on a monthly basis as it is rolled into the permanent [...]
$$ Value Engineering
One thing that is often overlooked by civil engineers (or many engineers/architects for that matter) is the design component of value engineering. What is “value engineering”? Well, simply put, it is taking cost of construction into consideration during the design phase of a project. Sounds simple, but many designers overlook this component. Value engineering can [...]
Parking Garage Construction Cost – Structured Parking
With tighter urban site designs we frequently discuss the option for structured parking. Its an attractive option for creating a walkable urban environment and it also makes great economic sense when land becomes expensive. The first question is always, “What does a parking garage cost”. The answer is…depends. Parking garages are often budgeted on a [...]
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