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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 ...

Join, the decision-making platform for the built environment, has announced the launch of Join Forecasting, a new suite of tools that leverages historical project data for project comparisons and ...

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Although the firm's investment in model-based estimating has been complex, Wright says Hoar's estimating team saw the value right away, as the team was at that time working on a hard-bid project, ...

Estimators are often racing against the clock when preparing a construction takeoff and estimate. They juggle multiple projects and are frequently faced with the challenge of design plans that are ...

In Part 1 of this installment, featured in the April issue of EC&M, we covered departmental organization as it relates to an estimating department. Good organization allows for maximum productivity ...