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City, county, state, or provincial building permits are mainly about safety. They are about enforcing construction industry standards. Compliance with these standards provides real estate owners and other occupants of the properties with the best chances of minimizing things such as occurrences of fire, structural failures or something that may be as simple as a child getting his head caught between stair rails

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Line Item Estimates, very precise, but are incredibly time consuming. However, there is an alternative method to estimate the cost of the project, Unit Cost Estimation.

Subcontractors (sometimes referred to as “trades”) can miss the mark with cost estimates. In such cases, although the trades will be asked to absorb the costs, the general contractor and/or client will certainly pay for it to some extent whether it be in the form of additional costs, project delays, or dissatisfied customers resulting in negative reviews of client/general contractor professional abilities.