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How an Estimating Service Powers Lifecycle Cost Planning for Long-Term Assets

Introduction For projects like hospitals, universities, or public infrastructure, initial construction is just one piece of the financial puzzle. Long-term operational costs often eclipse build costs. An estimating service helps clients plan for the entire lifecycle of an asset, from cradle to reinvestment.

Beyond Initial Construction Estimators traditionally focus on upfront costs, but lifecycle planning expands that role. Estimating services now project long-term expenses such as maintenance, utilities, staffing, and system replacements, giving a holistic view of asset ownership.

Durability and Material Forecasting Material choice directly influences lifecycle costs. Estimators compare the upfront cost of high-durability components versus cheaper alternatives, factoring in maintenance frequency, replacement cycles, and overall longevity.

Energy Performance Projections Energy efficiency affects long-term budgets. Estimating services integrate performance modeling into their forecasts, calculating how HVAC choices, insulation levels, and lighting systems will influence utility costs over decades.

Maintenance and Downtime Consideration Hospitals or data centers can’t afford frequent shutdowns. Estimators quantify the cost of scheduled maintenance and potential downtime, guiding decisions toward systems that balance performance with reliability.

Technology Obsolescence and Reinvestment Timing In high-tech buildings, estimating services help predict when technology will become outdated and budget for its eventual upgrade. This ensures financial plans account not only for installation but future modernization.

Supporting Asset Management Planning Lifecycle cost estimates become tools for facility managers and CFOs. Estimating services provide detailed documents that align capital investment with long-term operating budgets and help in scheduling reinvestment cycles.

Conclusion An estimating service isn’t just about today’s cost. It supports intelligent long-term asset planning by forecasting the financial implications of design and system choices, giving stakeholders a full lifecycle view.

[idrellegames]

For anyone curious about Episode 3's status... it is now longer than Episode 1.

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[systemresetrp]

we've got the rules documentation at the ready. our next step is to finalise locations & create accommodating excel documents for locations/housing with a view to do a relationship chart at a later date if desired. we have a tier system we will be writing a document for too; which explains ranks, what they are, what they mean & what rewards they give - as well as how to attain them. you'll see the rules document mention earnable muse slots, which is part of the tiers.

mod recruitment will be underway shortly, as i believe it is crucial to have mods on board to help discuss new ideas, plans i've come up with and ways to implement as well as locations—allowing mods to contribute their own locations, npcs, etc. as a gentle reminder, we are a 21+ only discord server.

[itshomobirb]

i bought a used wheelchair off ebay and it's supposed to arrive on monday and tbh im so excited !! ik it's gonna take awhile to build up more arm strength but im so much wagging my tail at the idea of being able to do short lil mental health walks with it

[gemkun]

anonymous said : dr. veritas ratio, what is the circumference of your breathtaking sculpted pectorals that show in their window of boob?

      ⸻       ❝   .   .   .   ❞   although   the   nature   of   the   question   itself   ,   prompts   a   glance   to   the   subject   in   question   ,   he   wills   himself   against   the   act   —   to   deter   and   dampen   the   nonsensical   ask.   ❝   i   trust   you   paid   attention   in   my   classes.   solve   it   yourself.   ❞   what   a   ridiculous   addition   to   his   already   saturated   schedule.   

[upside-down-sock-drawer]

Hello people of Tumblr!! Here is the caterpillar documentation series that does not fit the theme of my blog and no one asked for!!

Let's meet the caterpillars!!

This is Many, a Monarch butterfly. Many is currently in a chrysalis and will emerge in a matter of days.

This is Marilyn, the other Monarch. Marilyn is fairly small and will likely remain a caterpillar for about a week.

This is Samantha, the largest of the Swallowtail caterpillars. Samantha will likely be forming a chrysalis in a few days.

This is Samuel, the second oldest Swallowtail. He will be entering the chrysalis stage in a little less than a week.

This is Sally. Sally is about the same size as Samuel, so the same time frame applies.

This is Summer, the second smallest Swallowtail. Summer is around the same size as Marilyn.

And finally, the smallest Swallowtail, this is Sunny. Sunny is way smaller then the rest of the caterpillars and will likely remain a caterpillar for about a week and a half. Sunny looks a little bit different from the other caterpillars and might be a slightly different variety, I'm not quite sure.

And there you have it!! All 7 of my backyard caterpillars. I will be updating the documentation every couple of days.

[constructioncostco]

Civil engineering software refers to the tools which have been designed to aid civil engineers throughout the entire construction procedure of the different projects. The civil engineering software has been used in each stage of the design and construction project including documenting, drafting, designing, visualizing, and analysing. The civil engineering software has been developed and specialized for designing and overseeing larger-scale projects of buildings, bridges, transport systems, and dams. The total cost of the design and construction projects as well as the overall management costs of those projects can be also estimated with the help of the civil engineering software. In addition, this civil engineering software has also the ability to predict the accurate time and essential resources required for the project.

These software programs help civil engineers to conduct their work on a daily basis in the case of working on modelling pipe networks or drafting the plans for the ongoing projects as well as helping to ensure that the project stays on the right schedule.

Learn about the top 6 software useful for civil engineers

Civil engineering software has become an essential tool for civil engineers in recent years. The top civil engineering software which will be necessary for conducting design and construction projects by the civil engineers are as follows:

AutoCAD

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[asestimationsconsultants]

How a Residential Estimating Service Helps with Future Property Tax Forecasting

Property taxes represent a significant ongoing expense for homeowners and real estate investors alike. Accurate forecasting of future property tax liabilities is essential for effective financial planning and investment analysis. A residential estimating service can provide invaluable assistance in this process by helping to estimate the impact of home improvements, renovations, and property value changes on future property taxes. By integrating cost estimating expertise with local tax assessment knowledge, these services support better budget management and strategic decision-making.

Understanding Property Tax Assessments

Property taxes are typically calculated based on the assessed value of a home multiplied by the local tax rate. Assessors determine this value by considering factors such as location, size, condition, and recent improvements. When a property undergoes renovations or expansions, its assessed value often increases, resulting in higher taxes.

Estimating how different project scopes will affect assessed value—and thus taxes—can be complex. This is where a residential estimating service becomes an important asset.

Linking Renovation Costs to Property Value

A residential estimating service provides detailed breakdowns of renovation and improvement costs, allowing homeowners and investors to understand the scale and investment of their projects. When combined with local market data and appraisal trends, these cost estimates help predict potential increases in assessed value.

For example, upgrading a kitchen or adding a new bathroom usually boosts a home’s market value, but the degree varies by region and property type. Estimating services analyze these nuances, giving clients realistic projections of how their improvements might influence property taxes.

Forecasting Tax Impact Before Project Initiation

Planning renovations without understanding the tax consequences can lead to unexpected financial burdens after project completion. A residential estimating service enables clients to simulate various renovation options and forecast the associated tax changes.

This foresight helps homeowners prioritize projects that provide the best balance between added value and tax impact or decide whether smaller, less intrusive improvements might be preferable to maintain manageable tax bills.

Incorporating Local Tax Rates and Policies

Tax rates, exemptions, and reassessment cycles differ widely across municipalities. A residential estimating service often collaborates with local tax experts or incorporates updated tax data to ensure forecasts reflect current policies.

This level of precision helps clients avoid surprises from tax rate increases, reassessment triggers, or expiration of exemptions tied to renovations.

Supporting Investment and Cash Flow Planning

For real estate investors, property tax forecasting is crucial to maintain positive cash flow and accurate return on investment calculations. Unexpected tax hikes can reduce profit margins or require additional capital reserves.

By providing reliable tax impact projections based on renovation costs and property valuation trends, residential estimating services allow investors to factor property tax changes into their financial models, loan applications, and budgets.

Enhancing Negotiations and Purchase Decisions

When acquiring properties that need renovation, understanding potential future tax increases can influence offer prices and investment strategies. A residential estimating service supports buyers by estimating post-renovation tax liabilities, helping to evaluate the true cost of ownership.

This insight strengthens negotiation positions and reduces the risk of overpaying for properties with hidden tax-related costs.

Planning for Long-Term Financial Stability

Homeowners preparing for long-term residence or retirement benefit from tax forecasting as part of comprehensive financial planning. Residential estimating services help project how planned improvements may affect property taxes years in advance, allowing for smarter budgeting and lifestyle decisions.

Such forward-thinking reduces stress and avoids financial surprises during retirement or fixed-income periods.

Documentation for Appeals and Exemptions

If property owners believe their assessed value or tax bills are unfairly high, having detailed cost estimates and valuation data can support appeals or applications for tax exemptions.

A residential estimating service’s documentation provides credible evidence of construction costs and property conditions, strengthening cases before local tax authorities.

Conclusion

Property tax forecasting is a complex but essential aspect of homeownership and real estate investment. A residential estimating service bridges the gap between renovation costs and tax implications, offering accurate, localized projections that enable smarter budgeting, investment decisions, and long-term financial planning.

By leveraging this expertise, homeowners and investors reduce risk, optimize their renovation strategies, and maintain better control over one of the most significant recurring property expenses.

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I encourage everyone to not only be aware of Project 2025, but educate yourself on exactly what is — a nearly one thousand page document by Conservatives that describes the creation of an authoritarian state and dismantling of major necessary agencies (EPA, Department of Education, etc), as well as including a plan to remove those who hold high government seats and replace them with loyalists who have little to no experience in that field.

An estimated 41 million Gen Z teens will turn eighteen before this election. Please make sure you are registered to vote by November, and be sure to get to the polls on November 5th.

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #39

October 18-25 2024.

President Biden issued the first presidential apology on behalf of the federal government to America's Native American population for the Indian boarding school policy. For 150 years the federal government operated a system of schools which aimed to destroy Native culture through the forced assimilation of native children. At these schools students faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and close to 1,000 died. The Biden-Harris Administration has been historic for Native and Tribal rights. From the appointment of the first ever Native American cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, to the investment of $46 billion dollars on tribal land, to 200 new co-stewardship agreements. The last 4 years have seen a historic investment in and expansion of tribal rights.

The Biden-Harris Administration proposed a new rule which would make contraceptive medication (the pill) free over the counter with most Insurance. The new rule would ban cost sharing for contraception products, including the pill, condoms, and emergency contraception. On top of over the counter medications, the new rule will also strength protections for prescribed contraception without cost sharing as well.

The EPA announced its finalized rule strengthening standards for lead paint dust in pre-1978 housing and child care facilities. There is no safe level of exposure to lead particularly for children who can suffer long term developmental consequences from lead exposure. The new standards set the lowest level of lead particle that can be identified by a lab as the standard for lead abatement. It's estimated 31 million homes built before the ban on lead paint in 1978 have lead paint and 3.8 million of those have one or more children under the age of 6. The new rule will mean 1.2 million fewer people, including over 300,000 children will not be exposed to lead particles every year. This comes after the Biden-Harris Administration announced its goal to remove and replace all lead pipes in America by the end of the decade.

The Department of Transportation announced a $50 million dollar fine against American Airlines for its treatment of disabled passengers and their wheelchairs. The fine stems from a number of incidences of humiliating and unfair treatment of passages between 2019 and 2023, as well as video documented evidence of mishandling wheelchairs and damaging them. Half the fine will go to replacing such damaged wheelchairs. The Biden administration has leveled a historic number of fines against the airlines ($225 million) for their failures. It also published a Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights, passed a new rule accessible lavatories on aircraft, and is working on a rule to require airlines to replace lost or damaged wheelchairs with equal equipment at once.

The Department of Energy announced $430 million dollars to help boost domestic clean energy manufacturing in former coal communities. This invests in projects in 15 different communities, in places like Texas, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan. The plan will bring about 1,900 new jobs in communities struggling with the loss of coal. Projects include making insulation out of recycled cardboard, low carbon cement production, and industrial fiber hemp processing.

The Department of Transportation announced $4.2 billion in new infrastructure investment. The money will go to 44 projects across the country. For example the MBTA will get $400 million to replace the 92 year old Draw 1 bridge and renovate North Station.

The Department of Transportation announced nearly $200 million to replace aging natural gas pipes. Leaking gas lines represent a serious public health risk and also cost costumers. Planned replacements in Georgia and North Carolina for example will save the average costumer there over $900 on their gas bill a year. Replacing leaking lines will also remove 1,000 metric tons of methane pollution, annually.

The Department of the Interior announced $244 million to address legacy pollution in Pennsylvania coal country. This comes on top of $400 million invested earlier this year. This investment will help close dangerous mine shafts, reclaim unstable slopes, improve water quality by treating acid mine drainage, and restore water supplies damaged by mining.

Data shows that President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (passed with Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote) has saved seniors $1 billion dollars on out-of-pocket drug costs. Seniors with certain high priced drugs saw their yearly out of pocket costs capped at $3,500 for 2024. In 2024 all seniors using Medicare Part D will see their out of pocket costs capped at $2,000 for the year. It's estimated if the $2,000 cap had been in effect this year 4.6 million seniors would have hit it by June and not have had to pay any more for medication for the rest of the year.

The Department of Education announced a new proposed rule to bring student debt relief for 8 million struggling borrowers. The Biden-Harris Administration has managed despite road blocks from Republicans in Congress, the courts and law suits from Republican states to bring student loan forgiveness to 5 million Americans so far through different programs. This latest rule would take into account many financial hardships faced by people to determine if they qualify to have their student loans forgiven. The final rule cannot be finalized before 2025 meaning its fate will be decided at the election.

The Department of Agriculture announced $1.5 billion in 92 partner-driven conservation projects. These projects aim at making farming more susceptible and environmental friendly, 16 projects are about water conservation in the West, 6 support use of innovative technologies to reduce enteric methane emissions in livestock. $100 million has been earmarked for Tribal-led projects.

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[pencilium]

Maybe once their horridly long commercial leases are up and they've finally repaid the cost of the ridiculous office buildings they built, they'll finally give up the expense of maintaining a full office building in favour of renting out server space and a secure room for some filing cabinets.

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Article

As he peered over a secluded cove off the coast of��San Francisco, Gerry McChesney couldn’t believe the scene that was unfolding in front of him. 

Fur seal pups — hundreds of them — had taken over the inlet at the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and were bobbing on the surface of the water in a shiny, blubbery mass, likely hiding from great white sharks as they waited for their mothers to return from the sea to nurse. The sight wasn’t exactly unheard of — island biologists at Point Blue Conservation Science had first noticed the older seal pups using the cove as a covert hideout sometime last year, McChesney, a manager for the refuge, told SFGATE. But he was on the island one day in late October when biologist Jim Tietz delivered the news: The seals were back in full force, and in numbers they had never seen before. 

McChesney decided to go take a look for himself.

“I was amazed to see them all piled in there, getting tossed around like they were in a washing machine,” he told SFGATE in an email, adding that he counted 440 in all. “They looked pretty content and like they were having a good ol’ time.”

The video McChesney captured was shared by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on social media earlier this week, garnering thousands of comments on Instagram and Facebook, with users referring to the phenomenon as “seal pup daycare” and “nature’s mosh pit.” 

To the biologists, it’s a sign of “a truly remarkable recovery.” 

The rookery’s history

The Farallon Islands host one of just two fur seal rookeries south of Alaska (the other being San Miguel Island in Santa Barbara County) after the species was completely wiped out from the area in the early 19th century. There was extensive seal hunting between about 1810 and 1838... In the first few years of widespread hunting, he estimates that over 150,000 fur seals were slaughtered (“The rookery must have been huge,” he noted) and soon, no fur seals could be found at the islands at all.

But large-scale market hunting came to an end by the mid-19th century, he said. In 1911, the United States signed the Northern Fur Seal Treaty, banning the hunting of marine mammals at sea. The Marine Mammal Protection Act, which prohibits killing and disturbing animals including seals, was established in 1972, further aiding in the protection of the species. Two years later, 141 acres of the islands were designated the Farallon Wilderness and were closed to the public in an attempt to mitigate human disturbance so the seals could return and “breed unfettered,” McChesney said. Large breeding colonies still persisted on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, and the Commander Islands off eastern Siberia, and in 1996, a female fur seal from a recovered colony on the Channel Islands made her way back to the Farallones, giving birth to the first fur seal pup there after more than 150 years of the species’ absence.

Since then, “the Farallon population has been growing rapidly,” McChesney said. Within 15 years, the local population had boomed to 476 individuals, Bay Nature reported in 2018. Initially, they clustered in one area on the west end of the islands — but now, they’re beginning to expand.

Pictured: A photo of a northern fur seal in Alaska.

A seal surge

Pupping season runs from June to August, with most of the seals born in July and remaining in the breeding colony for a few months before they are weaned, usually by the end of November. Then, the newly independent animals go out to sea on their own. 

Farallon Island biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science have been documenting the population, and this year recorded 2,133 fur seals in total, including 1,276 pups, which McChesney called “the highest pup count yet.” 

“Given that the entire colony can’t be seen, this was a minimal count and there were certainly many more,” he noted.

Pictured: The Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco.

Though Point Blue biologists have never documented white sharks feeding on fur seal pups (they typically go for juvenile northern elephant seals and sea lions) the “threat of shark attacks on the seal pups is certainly there and I’m sure the pups are aware of that,” McChesney said. “The cove where the video was taken provides a secluded spot to swim and play without worrying about the sharks.”

When the mothers return, they find their pups by using a distinctive call. But in the meantime, the pups seem not to mind the hours away in their secret hideout where they can splash and play to their hearts’ content.

“It was so much fun to watch,” McChesney said. “And knowing that the sight represents such an amazing comeback for their population made the sight mean so much more.”

-via SF Gate, December 23, 2024