Month: April 2024
Rollercoaster Budgets: The Ups, Downs, and Loop-the-Loops of Infrastructure Spending
Fasten your seatbelts, infrastructure enthusiasts, because we’re about to embark on a wild ride – the rollercoaster of infrastructure spending budgets! Infrastructure spending: unlike your [more…]
Economic Weather Forecasting: Predicting Cost Storms in Infrastructure
For all you infrastructure enthusiasts, let’s delve into a topic that’s not just about the weather you check before your morning commute but the economic [more…]
Project Costing: A Thriller Genre, Not a Spreadsheet Exercise
All right, infrastructure enthusiasts, buckle up! Forget the latest whodunit; the real nail-biting plot twists are happening in project costing! As cost estimators, we bring [more…]
Are You Over-Optimistic or Just Fantasy Budgeting?
For all you infrastructure enthusiasts and professionals, let’s avoid over-optimistic visions and delve into the realities of budgeting. As a cost estimator, I often face [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 [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”
Alright, infrastructure enthusiasts, let’s talk about a saga as epic as any blockbuster movie: the fight against cost overruns! We, the cost estimators, are not [more…]
