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Top level shake-up looms at Costain highways division

Construction Enquirer

Top-level director changes are underway at Costain’s highways division. It is also understood that Darren Dobson, highways operations director, will be leaving the business amid the management changes at the division, which accounts for around a third of Costain’s total revenue.

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More Listings, Lower Rates This Week

The Pro Builder

Mortgage rates moved slightly lower this week, providing a bit more room in the budgets of some prospective homebuyers,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement. But while home prices stagnated, more new listings hit the market and home sellers got busy reducing listing prices.

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The Real Estate Developers Handbook: The Role of Budgets in CRE

Rabbet

A real estate development project combines creativity, strategy, and resource management to transform visions into reality. However, amidst the excitement and anticipation, one aspect often stands as the bedrock of project success: budget tracking. It is often broken down into line items and divisions.

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Next five-year railway plan to double earthworks spend

Construction Enquirer

It is also ramping up work programmes to improve network resilience in the face of climate change with spending in embankment works and drawing set to double to £1.8bn from 2024-29. Overall rail infrastructure company is aiming to spend £44bn in the operations, maintenance and renewal of England and Wales’s railway, £1.8bn more that CP6.

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Episode 5: Value Engineering and Cost Optimisation — Cost Management

iField Smart

Reading Time: 2 minutes In an industry as quick as construction, cost management is everything. Rising material costs, labour shortages plus complex projects mean we need to be smarter with our budgets without compromising on quality. Simplify stakeholder collaboration to ensure transparency and alignment on budgets.

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Zweig Group releases 2024 Fee & Billing Report of AEC Firms

Civil + Structural Engineer

Chargeability changes. percent this year, indicating both enhanced project budgeting practices and consistent workloads. Refined collections management. A notable shift in the data suggests collections management is shifting from project managers to accounting personnel. Refined collections management.

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A New Bridge to Nature: Elachee Drive over I-985 Bridge Replacement

Civil + Structural Engineer

Roadway Project Manager, Michael Baker International Located in the 1,500-acre Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve in North Georgia, the Elachee Nature Science Center is an education center that serves more than 35,000 students from over 35 school systems and an additional 30,000 visitors to the museum and preserve each year. By Chad Havens, P.E.,