Develop a Winning Scope of Work

Building Relationships Means Better Building Projects
Construction cost overruns are serious risks that can send ripples throughout an organization’s budgets and operations. Learn more about how to minimize these with accurate data.
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Scope Your Way to Better Budgets
An accurate budget estimate begins with a clear, detailed Scope of Work. But how do you write a good scope?
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5 Tips to Avoid Scope Creep
Often after kicking off a construction project, unplanned changes or adjustments to the scope can get out of hand.
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Data Points: Sourcing Project Scope
A Scope of Work must be clear and complete for a construction project to succeed, and that means gathering a lot of data. But from where? Let’s explore a few sources of information that can help build a strong scope.
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Design with Confidence

Engineering Firm Takes Estimates to New Heights with RSMeans data
Just 10 minutes south of the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, stands a sandy-colored building with oak trees in its parking lot that serves as office of Nelson Engineering Co.
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How Predictive Data Is Revolutionizing Preconstruction Planning
Preconstruction planning has been, and continues to be, one of the most challenging aspects of the building lifecycle.
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Using Data to Future-Proof Your Designs
Design work is tricky from a time perspective. Architects and design professionals create drawings and conceptual designs in the present and the structures are built in the future.
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Maximizing Construction Project Budgets with Data-Driven Designs
Architects, engineers and other design professionals juggle several coexisting responsibilities and desires. They want to design and build great, innovative facilities. They want to create reputations for doing thorough, efficient work. Most importantly, they want to maximize their available budget. But how?
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Keeping Current with Key Construction Material Costs
Conventional wisdom says that construction material prices increase slightly year-over-year. The thinking goes that, as long as supply chains aren’t interrupted, material prices will roughly match the rise of cost-of-living and inflation rates.
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RSMeans Data Online: What You Need to Know for 2021
It’s clear that construction costs more in 2021 than it did in 2020. And if you’re using outdated construction costs for your estimates, even costs from a few months ago, you could end up with overruns in budgets that are already airtight. See how our RSMeans data is keeping pace with the industry.
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Solving the Construction Estimating Puzzle: How to Estimate Thoroughly and Accurately for Every Project
Creating a construction cost estimate can be quite a puzzle. From scoping to quantity takeoff to cost estimating- to produce a thorough, accurate estimate that stays within the project’s budget and timeline. Check out this eBook to learn more.
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Avoidable Construction Estimating Mistakes
In the past three years, only 31 percent of all projects came within 10 percent of their budgets.
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