Accurate estimates are essential to a construction firm’s success. Overprice a bid and you’ll likely lose the project. Underprice it and you risk losing money and damaging relationships with partners ...

Finding the right person for your estimating department can be challenging. Whether you are looking for an estimator, a chief estimator, or an entry-level employee, you must match a person’s skill ...

Think of how often you have been unprepared for a meeting or another important engagement. Opportunity is lost when we are unprepared. Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing ...

The Home Depot introduces Blueprint Takeoffs, an AI tool that delivers faster, accurate material lists and estimates for ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Maxwell Systems, Inc., a leading provider of construction business management software solutions and services, today announced the availability of American ...

Cost estimators collect and analyze data to estimate the time, money, resources, and labor required for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services. Some specialize in a particular ...

To complete a job, general contractors hire skilled and unskilled laborers to complete specific tasks. Crew workers include framers to finishers and everyone in between. Estimating man-hour ...

You have often recommended that people get three bids from licensed contractors. We only got two, but both were experienced, longtime electrical contractors in our area. The first contractor supplied ...