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Yep, not pulling your old fella on this. Saved about $750/m2. Was a high spec house, building company (a well known Auckland company, wont name names though sorry) had quite large margins built in in some places, some margins seemingly as high as 35%. Put owner in direct contact with subbies and suppliers, charged a PM fee, resulted in much lower real build cost. Also, built it in just under 6 months where building company was talking closer to 10 or 11 months. Yes, I know I sound like a bullshit artist, but these things are do-able!
I would love to Know who, $750 per sqr saving, well, that only has to be multiplied by the 530, and. Yep, massive SAVING. Why won't you post the Company, we could all use figures like that.
Yep, not pulling your old fella on this. Saved about $750/m2. Was a high spec house, building company (a well known Auckland company, wont name names though sorry) had quite large margins built in in some places, some margins seemingly as high as 35%. Put owner in direct contact with subbies and suppliers, charged a PM fee, resulted in much lower real build cost. Also, built it in just under 6 months where building company was talking closer to 10 or 11 months. Yes, I know I sound like a bullshit artist, but these things are do-able!
Oh well, well done Stickman.
Tell me, are you onsite every day? Do you manage the coordination of all the subbies? So that things don't have to be redone? Like on my job, the PM was on one of his holidays when some office partitioning was being put up. Well the partitioning guys put all the gib on before the sparkies put the wires in didn't they! The wires were hanging out of the ceiling but the partitioning guys said they didn't see them. So the gib all had to be ripped off, wires put back in and then gib put up again.
And then the PM tells me these things just happen and there's nothing to be done about it.
Many things like this happened because there was no one on the site all day every day coordinating things.
I would love to Know who, $750 per sqr saving, well, that only has to be multiplied by the 530, and. Yep, massive SAVING. Why won't you post the Company, we could all use figures like that.
tell you what, send it to me by PM, private.
Sorry mate, NZ is too small a construction industry to be naming and shaming like that...the company I am talking about actually used to be my employer not too long ago, so really got to watch things there.
Tell me, are you onsite every day? Do you manage the coordination of all the subbies? So that things don't have to be redone? Like on my job, the PM was on one of his holidays when some office partitioning was being put up. Well the partitioning guys put all the gib on before the sparkies put the wires in didn't they! The wires were hanging out of the ceiling but the partitioning guys said they didn't see them. So the gib all had to be ripped off, wires put back in and then gib put up again.
And then the PM tells me these things just happen and there's nothing to be done about it.
Many things like this happened because there was no one on the site all day every day coordinating things.
Cheers, but the purpose of my post isn't so much to gain accolade, rather to encourage people to try things from an alternative angle. If you are resourceful and creative you will be surprised what you can achieve.
Yes, the incident you faced is EXACTLY the sort of thing I prevent. A PM who lets something like that happen has dropped the ball in a large way. But yes, the best of us make mistakes in our professions. Yes, I manage all subbies (well, to be honest the guys I work with these days largely coordinate themselves). On complicated builds, I will absolutely be onsite each day,even if it is to just stick me head in, but equally have built simple houses where I have been by once a week. Will plan to be around a lot more during critical construction milestones such as site set out (Big problem if the thing is built in the wrong spot...but I know of a few instances where this has happened.)
Also, one of the key ways that I accumulate savings is by knowing WHO is clearing product/product line WHEN, as well as having good rates on my trade accounts. I am not talking about cheap crap imported from China by some dodgy importer, I mean guys like Robertsons and Reece Plumbing supplies who will hold sales where they clear stock ex: warehouse (I am talking sometime paying 25% of the retail price). Same goes for other suppliers. There is usually a good range of products at pretty good prices available, just need to be paying attention.
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