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Very tough to say if theres an optimum. A lot of big construction companies will throw all their money in the pot and not know whether or not they’ll have some left over at the end till the job is done. The company I work for is just the opposite, perhaps to a fault. They monitor EVERYTHING. The categories you listed kind of overlap in my mind. I’d say the big three things to divy time up to are quality control (building the work right), safety/environmental (making sure you don’t get sued), and work efficiency/productivity (building it cheap). Don’t know what to tell you for a good ratio, but you can expect to have about 75 people working overhead on, say, a 500 million dollar job.