Construction Costs Quotes

Builders may receive due encouragement by having materials for building at reasonable prices.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Whereas in the Fall of 1980 the frame of the new Senate Office Building was covered with plastic sheathing in order that construction might continue during the winter months; and Whereas the plastic cover has now been removed revealing, as feared, a building whose banality is exceeded only by its expense; and Whereas, even in a democracy there are things that it is as well the people do not know about their government; Therefore, be it resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the plastic cover be put back.

Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.

Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

A 5-acre school each in Noida and Gurgaon is what we have; it costs Rs. 50 crore to buy the land and another Rs. 50 crore to build the property. That's the capital cost alone.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

We build roads and they cost two and three and four times what they're supposed to cost.

It isn't always easy to stay within budget when committing to a renovation, but one place you can cut costs is on the demolition.

If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.

Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.