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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A construction estimate is an educated guess based on experience and industry standards as to what a specific project with a specific scope of work may cost in a particular area of the country during ...

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 ...

A description and location of the work. Required completion date, if any. The name and phone number of your department's contact person. Except for very complex projects or where the scope of work is ...

Tariffs and expiring energy tax credits are making construction cost estimation difficult, raising project expenses for ...