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Construction Insurance

Construction insurance is an important policy to have if you own, run or manage a construction site.

Construction insurance provides safeguards for you as an employer against your construction workers being injured on site. Construction insurance does not exempt you from maintain a safe workplace. Usually, construction insurance policies only pay out if a strict set of health and safety guidelines are followed. Read more »

October 6, 2008 Posted by Construction English | Construction Insurance | | No Comments Yet

Scope, Budget and Schedule of Construction Projects

Construction Projects are defined by their scope, budget, and schedule.

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For example, an Agency is to undertake a project to design and build a new maintenance facility for its fleet of buses (scope), at an estimate of $30 million (preliminary budget) over a three-year period of construction (schedule). The schedule specifies a defined beginning and end. Projects go through a life cycle of phases between their beginnings and ends that forconstruction projects are typically: initiation, planning, design, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Read more »

October 4, 2008 Posted by Construction English | Project Management, Scheduling | | 1 Comment