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From Cost Estimates to Cost Guesstimates Navigating the Fog
All right, my fellow infrastructure enthusiasts, let's delve into a topic that unites us all—the ever-changing, unpredictable weather of project budgets and cost estimates! Despite our best efforts with fancy spreadsheets and complex formulas, cost estimates often feel less like a science and more like navigating a dense fog. We all [more ...]
Magicians in Hard Hats: The Illusion of Keeping Projects Under Budget
All right, infrastructure enthusiasts, let's delve into the real magic of construction – not the kind you see on a Vegas stage, but the kind that happens on a bustling construction site! Projects Under Budget = Utopia! As cost estimators, we play a crucial role in this magic. We often [more ...]
The Money Pit: How Infrastructure Budgets Often End Up Feeling Like a Sitcom
For all of us infrastructure enthusiasts, it's a shared experience: our projects can sometimes feel less like engineering marvels and more like episodes of wacky sitcoms. We invest months in meticulously crafting a budget for our infrastructure project, only to have it thrown into hilarious disarray by unexpected twists and [more ...]
Hide and Seek: Finding the Hidden Costs in Your Infrastructure Project
All right, esteemed infrastructure enthusiasts, let's play hidden costs hide-and-seek, a game we all know and love! Our game of hide and seek is no child's play in the infrastructure world. It's a battle against those cunning hidden costs that lie in wait, ready to ambush our meticulously planned budgets. [more ...]
From Cost Estimates to Cost Guesstimates Navigating the Fog
All right, my fellow infrastructure enthusiasts, let's delve into a topic that unites us all—the ever-changing, unpredictable weather of project budgets and cost estimates! Despite our best efforts with fancy spreadsheets and complex formulas, cost estimates often feel less like a science and more like navigating a dense fog. We all...
Magicians in Hard Hats: The Illusion of Keeping Projects Under Budget
All right, infrastructure enthusiasts, let's delve into the real magic of construction – not the kind you see on a Vegas stage, but the kind that happens on a bustling construction site! Projects Under Budget = Utopia! As cost estimators, we play a crucial role in this magic. We often...
The Money Pit: How Infrastructure Budgets Often End Up Feeling Like a Sitcom
For all of us infrastructure enthusiasts, it's a shared experience: our projects can sometimes feel less like engineering marvels and more like episodes of wacky sitcoms. We invest months in meticulously crafting a budget for our infrastructure project, only to have it thrown into hilarious disarray by unexpected twists and...
Hide and Seek: Finding the Hidden Costs in Your Infrastructure Project
All right, esteemed infrastructure enthusiasts, let's play hidden costs hide-and-seek, a game we all know and love! Our game of hide and seek is no child's play in the infrastructure world. It's a battle against those cunning hidden costs that lie in wait, ready to ambush our meticulously planned budgets....
Time Travel and Cost Estimating: Why Project Managers Wish They Had a DeLorean
Get ready, infrastructure enthusiasts, for a thought experiment as practical as a trip in a DeLorean! Consider the advantages: What if we had the ultimate tool, a time machine, for cost estimating in infrastructure projects? Our jobs (and maybe our sanity) could be significantly easier. Cost estimating... imagine the possibilities:...
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From Cost Estimates to Cost Guesstimates Navigating the Fog
All right, my fellow infrastructure enthusiasts, let’s delve into a topic that unites us all—the ever-changing, unpredictable weather of project budgets and cost estimates! Despite our [more…]
Magicians in Hard Hats: The Illusion of Keeping Projects Under Budget
All right, infrastructure enthusiasts, let’s delve into the real magic of construction – not the kind you see on a Vegas stage, but the kind [more…]
The Money Pit: How Infrastructure Budgets Often End Up Feeling Like a Sitcom
For all of us infrastructure enthusiasts, it’s a shared experience: our projects can sometimes feel less like engineering marvels and more like episodes of wacky [more…]
Hide and Seek: Finding the Hidden Costs in Your Infrastructure Project
All right, esteemed infrastructure enthusiasts, let’s play hidden costs hide-and-seek, a game we all know and love! Our game of hide and seek is no [more…]
Time Travel and Cost Estimating: Why Project Managers Wish They Had a DeLorean
Get ready, infrastructure enthusiasts, for a thought experiment as practical as a trip in a DeLorean! Consider the advantages: What if we had the ultimate [more…]
Cost Overruns: “Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: The Blockbuster Budgets of Infrastructure”
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Cost Overruns: When Your Budgets Do More Stretching Than Yoga
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Why Infrastructure Projects Need a Dating App for Budget and Reality Check
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My Most Epic Oops Moments (and How I Managed to Recover)
Alright, infrastructure enthusiasts, buckle up! It’s time for a cost estimator to confess my most epic oops moments. Let’s face it: In the world of cost [more…]
The “Cone Zone Charade”: Why Infrastructure Projects Always Seem to Speak Their Budgetary Language
Ah, the dreaded cone zone charade. A labyrinth of orange cones, cryptic signage, and enough detours to make even the most seasoned navigator question their sanity. [more…]
