Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Estimating for Construction

Why Should You Take This Estimating for Construction Seminar?

Estimating is a skill that is vital to your business for a number of reasons. If you can't accurately forecast the amount of time, labor and materials needed for each construction project, then you risk submitting a bid that isn't accurate or competitive and losing out to another contractor. Or worse yet, you could improperly calculate your estimate and end up losing money time and time again. Do you have the knowledge and background necessary to properly estimate construction projects?

This Estimating for Construction seminar is an introductory course that will help you to understand the fundamentals and processes of estimating small to medium construction jobs. It has been designed to help you run a more profitable business through learning how to determine accurate costs and how to avoid estimating pitfalls.

The Estimating for Construction seminar includes a copy of Estimating Home Building Costs Revised, (published by Craftsman) and covers 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

Students in this course are required to acknowledge Blueprint reading proficiency before enrolling in this Estimating for Constructionseminar.

Here are just some of the things we cover in our Estimating for Construction course:

• 16-hour estimating class, fundamentals of construction estimation, including materials and labor costs
• A current, revised copy of Craftsman's textbook Estimating Home Building Costs
• Understanding different types of bids, and how to use them to maintain a high profit margin
• Common estimating pitfalls that many builders and contractors aren't aware of until it is too late
• Tracking costs and using estimating technology to make the bid process faster