The situation
Price every interior partition wall in Building 1 of a five-story office building being converted to apartments in Phoenix, on Xtrata's panel wall system, and hand the owner one number.
Converting a roughly $10 million office campus one building at a time, with the plan set in city plan check, a second building already in design, and a bid wanted in about a month.
A number anchored to the measured wall rather than to a unit count about to change, a rate the campus could reuse, and a check that would catch the differences between buildings before they became change orders.
Price the rate and treat each building as a measurement: hold the price when the owner's count moved, lock the Building 1 metrics as the campus standard, and re-measure every new building before the standard touches it.
The partition package on Building 1, verbally approved and in plan check; Building 2's plan set arrived September 15 and its first estimate went out that afternoon.
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