Commercial Estimators

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I don't know if there is an answer. As design firms compete for fewer and fewer trained architects and engineers with larger salaries and have to bid on work they have negotiated in the past, the old "boilerplate" specs look pretty convenient. Many jobs are designed by addendum. The design is 90% complete and some portion of the other...

We have been preparing for the change over to the new 2004 numbering system since the summer of 2004. It is now four years later and we have still not made the transition even though almost everything is in place. Our entire company is anticipating that this change will take place or would have taken place by this time. Our first reaction as with many...