Advance Your Skills in Construction Estimating
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Detailed, accurate estimates are a critical part of construction, and professional estimators are in demand. Learn the estimating skills that construction managers use to build budgets, get approvals, and hire workers.
- Explore the terminology and tools used in construction estimating.
- Create takeoffs, extensions, bid recaps, and change orders.
- Discover the software tools used in the trade.
Syllabus
Courses under this program:
Course 1: Learning Construction Estimating
-Creating high-quality, accurate estimates is a critical part of construction. Learn what it takes to get started as a professional estimator.
Course 2: Construction Estimating Takeoff
-Learn how to develop a takeoff sheet, including materials, quantities, and measurements, in this construction estimation training course.
Course 3: Construction Estimating Extension
-Get step-by-step instructions for developing a price extension (aka cost estimate) sheet—a critical construction document.
Course 4: Construction Estimating Bid Recap
-Review the bid recap process. Learn how to pull together information and documentation—including takeoff, extension, taxes, and labor rates—into a professional bid proposal.
Course 5: Construction Change Orders
-Changes are an unavoidable and essential part of the construction process. Learn how to price and negotiate change orders with clients, so jobs can proceed.
Course 6: Construction Estimating: Specifications and CSI MasterFormat
-Learn how to read and use constructions specifications and understand the CSI MasterFormat classification system.
Course 1: Learning Construction Estimating
-Creating high-quality, accurate estimates is a critical part of construction. Learn what it takes to get started as a professional estimator.
Course 2: Construction Estimating Takeoff
-Learn how to develop a takeoff sheet, including materials, quantities, and measurements, in this construction estimation training course.
Course 3: Construction Estimating Extension
-Get step-by-step instructions for developing a price extension (aka cost estimate) sheet—a critical construction document.
Course 4: Construction Estimating Bid Recap
-Review the bid recap process. Learn how to pull together information and documentation—including takeoff, extension, taxes, and labor rates—into a professional bid proposal.
Course 5: Construction Change Orders
-Changes are an unavoidable and essential part of the construction process. Learn how to price and negotiate change orders with clients, so jobs can proceed.
Course 6: Construction Estimating: Specifications and CSI MasterFormat
-Learn how to read and use constructions specifications and understand the CSI MasterFormat classification system.
Courses
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Learn how to develop a takeoff sheet, including materials, quantities, and measurements, in this construction estimation training course.
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Changes are an unavoidable and essential part of the construction process. Learn how to price and negotiate change orders with clients, so jobs can proceed.
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Review the bid recap process. Learn how to pull together information and documentation—including takeoff, extension, taxes, and labor rates—into a professional bid proposal.
-
Get step-by-step instructions for developing a price extension (aka cost estimate) sheet—a critical construction document.
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Learn how to read and use constructions specifications and understand the CSI MasterFormat classification system.
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Creating high-quality, accurate estimates is a critical part of construction. Learn what it takes to get started as a professional estimator.
Taught by
Christopher Randall
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