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 There’s a Solution to Performing Time Consuming Quantity Take-Offs
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Owners will spend $40 billion on architectural and engineering fees in the United States this year. What most people do not know is that owners will spend $70 billion on Quantity Take Offs (QTO), cost estimates and cost proposals. They will track the A&E fees, even try to get them lower, but they will do little or nothing about the hidden QTO/Costing costs, if fact I doubt if they have any idea they are spending all this money. Most often when I give out these statistics architects are surprised, if they are contractors they tend to agree. Architects do QTO … BIM Products available from Reed Construction Data
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