Estimating For Construction Seminar
Do you guesstimate your jobs and end up losing money?
Standard estimating procedures can help you determine your costs and make more accurate and profitable bids!
Contractors State License Services offers a two-day introductory course to estimating and bidding that will help you to understand the fundamentals and processes of estimating small to medium construction jobs. It has been designed to help you determine accurate costs, avoid estimating pitfalls and keep you from making serious mistakes that could potentially put you out of business.The Estimating for Construction Course will include a copy of Estimating Home Building, W.P. Jackson, Craftsman Book Company and will cover these useful topics:
- Introduction to Estimating & Bidding
- Concepts & Techniques
- Types of bids
- Calculating Business Overhead
- Costs
- Profit
- Determining and Tracking Costs & Percentages
- Bidding & Estimation (Planning)
- Determining Labor & Material Costs
- Bidding by Square Foot
- Bidding by Openings
- Bidding by Unit Price or Function
- Estimating to make a Profit
- Pitfalls in bidding
- Overview of Estimating Technology - Estimating Lab
- How to use a construction calculator & other estimating software
The Calculator reviewed in this course is Construction Master Pro Calculator and is available for purchase through CSLS.
- How to use a construction calculator & other estimating software