020: The Construction Bid Process

What you want from architecture can change considerably over a career. Bob and Andrew explore four career stages, from finding your footing and developing your abilities to guiding others and deciding what comes next. We discuss how experience shapes your contribution, why priori ...  Show more

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How do you know if a project bid is good? On today’s show we are talking about how to value engineer a project.

We’re going to look at a project that has a firm bid on it. Overall, the construction bid seemed to be fairly reasonable in terms of total price per square fo ...

This week David and Marina of FAME Architecture & Design discuss four different ways and times clients can hire a contractor: Negotiated Agreement, Competitive Bidding, Design Build, and Pre-Construction. The two cover the benefits and negatives of each, their preferred method, t ...  Show more

Bid Day is a mind field. A continual experiment in practical psychology. Do you go high or low? Bid or not to bid? In this episode and series, we dig into bid day and give you things to think about as you bid your next project.

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