Do you wonder why your construction projects struggle to make money and your company is always in the red?
Could it be that your estimating strategy consists of throwing a bunch of line items against the wall and hoping they stick?
Poorly written estimates lead to all kinds of issues including low profits, stressed out production teams, unhappy customers and under-performing organizations.
Stop the madness.
This book can help you and your team develop a better plan for approaching estimating and achieving your goals.
The book offers specifics on how to prepare a bill of materials from a takeoff, summarize and prepare a bid for a custom home, assess markup on an estimate, and review a bid before it is submitted to the client. It covers the basic math of residential work early on, devotes an entire chapter to remodeling, and provides ""tips of the trade"" in every chapter.
Through its unique mix of real-world examples and classroom-tested insights, Construction Cost Estimating ensures that readers are familiar with the entire estimating process even before setting foot on the jobsite.