Hot take · 17:06
// THE QUOTE
“the punchline was this if you can catch an error in pre-planning it might cost an owner a hundred dollars”
— Patrick Lafreniere · JCB Construction Canada Inc.
The $100-vs-$10,000 error rule, fully explained with the demolish-a-wall-and-push-the-next-trade reasoning — a memorable, defensible argument for pre-planning that owners and GCs will repeat.
Full episode at 17:06BIM, Pre-Planning, and the $100 vs $10,000 Rule — Patrick Lafreniere, JCB Construction Canada (Newfoundland) ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
An error caught during pre-planning costs roughly $100 to fix; the same error caught during construction can cost $10,000 — because it triggers schedule disruption, waste, and trade sequencing cascades.
“if you can catch an error in pre-planning it might cost an owner a hundred dollars but if that same error is only caught during construction could cost ten thousand dollars”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Pre-Planning, BIM, and the Cost-of-Error Curve
9:26
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 17:06 of BIM, Pre-Planning, and the $100 vs $10,000 Rule — Patrick Lafreniere, JCB Construction Canada (Newfoundland)