Estimating & Bidding: Page 10

Financing, Insurance & Leasing

Construction Estimating Takeoff On-Screen Saves Time and Makes Changes Easy

Estimating with On Center Software slashes the cost and time of using blueprints and creates the cornerstone of an entrepreneur’s construction startup

On-Center Software's on-screen takeoff software shows a color-coded digital takeoff of an elementary school construction project with the building materials quantities listed.

Sponsored Content

Manage your mixed branded fleet in one easy to use platform

Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas

With LANDCROS Connect you can monitor the location of your mixed branded fleet. You can also view maintenance alerts and machine usage all on one single dashboard.

Manage your mixed branded fleet in one easy to use platform

[APP] Complete Takeoffs and Estimates Anytime, Anywhere with STACK

Stack Construction Technologies

Eliminate bid inconsistencies, incorporate materials to ensure no pieces are missed and easily analyze estimates with detailed cost reports.

Estimating & Bidding

Estimating Software is a Saving Bet

One wrong calculation in an estimate can doom a project before it starts and contractors who want to cut estimating costs in half are dumping the spreadsheets

Takeoffs are essential to a professional bid. Determining necessary quantities is a painstaking process repeated with each design change, but it can be done with ease using model-based estimating software.

Estimating & Bidding

Firm Digs In with an Accurate Quantity Estimating Software Solution

Hammond Estimating & Consulting gets accurate calculations supported by graphics from InSite's SiteWork so the dirt mover can visualize cut and fill requirements before they start

'What really sold me on InSite is that they have dirtmoving experience and understand exactly what a contractor needs. They understand earthwork and subgrade cubic quantities,' said Jim Hammond, Hammond Estimating & Consulting.

Project Management

Model-Based Estimates Delight Project Owners and Halve Pepper’s Costs

Estimating software integrated with BIM slashes take-off and re-estimate time for design revisions, simplifies formatting estimates to suit owner needs

Pepper Construction management uses Trimble modeling software in the early stages of a construction project, easy recalculating estimates to give owners cost context for design changes.

Estimating & Bidding

Spreadsheets Alone are Not Professional Construction Bids

Contractor KHS&S bids more jobs, more accurately and responds more quickly to changes with project takeoff and bidding software united over a database of materials, labor and pricing

The Repeat feature of On Center Software’s On-Screen Takeoff module allows the end-user to capture quantity results on one drawing and then replicate those results with the click of a button (sample project shown). A materials list and model are to the left; to the right is a PDF of information pertaining to the project’s typical groups and repeating floors.

Estimating & Bidding

Top 5 Must-Have Technologies for Estimators

As the days of paper plans piling up on desks fade, here are the Top 5 digital tools that can help make today's estimators the keepers of construction profitability

The key to today’s takeoff is the ability to quickly gauge the scope of work required for a trade, and adjust volumes automatically using the software's takeoff functions when plans change.

Construction Technology

Sage, eTakeoff, Autodesk to Launch 5D BIM Solution

Sage North America

Vendors collaborated to automate key takeoff and estimating processes using 3D building information models and 2D digital plans

[APP] Web-based Electronic Quoting Tool Allows for Real-time Field Quoting

Simple electronic quoting tool allows field and sales staff to quickly create a quote, get management review and get customer’s approval in real time while in the field

Eliminate paper-based quotes and get quick estimates and approval from the field with FieldQuotes web-based application.

Estimating & Bidding

Understanding the Estimating Advantages of 5D BIM with Sage

With over 32% of contractors planning to buy BIM-related software in coming months, contractors who overcome challenges to gain the estimating advantages will be steps ahead

Sage's takeoff software is designed to sync directly with BIM products such as Autodesk Navisworks for a more seamless estimating process.

Estimating & Bidding

New eBook Outlines How BIM Improves Construction Estimates

Sage North America

Software provider Sage offers a treatise on rising contractor adoption of building information modeling, ways models can improve estimates and how to overcome model challenges

Sage BIM for Estimating 58d951b1b9abd

Estimating & Bidding

Free Tool Calculates Estimating Software ROI

Software Advice offers a free calculator to approximate the number of hours your business can save each year by using estimating and takeoff software, as well as how long it will take to recoup the investment

It’s valuable to look not only at how quickly the company will gain back the initial investment in terms of cost-savings, but also at the number of man-hours the estimating team will save.

Page 10 of 22