Remember that batch of muffins or sheet cake that you didn’t leave in the oven long enough? It looked good on the outside, but when you sliced it open, it wasn’t actually baked all the way through? “Half-baked” you might call it. Quite literally. And as that expression has come to be used in other environments outside…
So what is waste? When it comes to the construction realm, waste is a concept that represents “extra” material that is sent to a jobsite to make sure there is enough to complete the project. Most commonly a waste factor gets “applied” in some form of a percentage of the originally calculated value. For example, if…
Remember the old adage? Junk in, Junk out. As true as it was decades ago, its still true today, even in the modern age of digital advancements and AI. And perhaps even more so. Nobody wants junk. And certainly nobody in your industry wants a junk estimate. If you want to avoid the takeoff junk…