If you’ve been in construction long enough, you know how estimating used to be. Stacks of drawings. Highlighters everywhere. Long nights with a scale ruler and a calculator.

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 ...

Accurate estimates are key to a construction firm’s success. If you overprice a bid, you’ll likely lose the project. But if you underprice it, you’ll lose money and create problems with your partners ...

1build, a real-time data platform for construction estimating, today announced new features for its all-in-one construction and cost estimation platform — now with real-time pricing data for labor and ...

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 ...

Toronto-based Provision wants to help pre-construction professionals move faster and minimize errors with the help of ...

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 ...