Many electrical contractors believe the estimating process begins with the take-off, when in reality that’s step No. 3 or 4 down the line. The estimating process actually starts way before any ...

There are many vital components to successful estimating, but consistency is certainly one of them. Establishing an estimating process is a great way to standardize the steps required to produce ...

Construction and development projects come with many expenses, and estimating services provide the right way to keep a check on them. When teams forecast accurately, it enables them to avoid […] ...

Project managers are asked to provide effort, duration, and cost estimates as a primary part of our jobs. You know then, that the estimation process is partly an art and partly a science. However, ...

I was on the phone this afternoon with Tim Bigoness, the vice president of sales for D-Tools, a company that has made software for estimating, designing and managing A/V projects and which now offers ...

This is a workshop to advance methodologies for estimating facility renewal costs and foster collaboration and innovation in facility management. Workshop topics will include, but not be limited to, ...

For years, a large organization faced significant challenges in managing the complex and often unpredictable costs of maintaining, upgrading and adding to its aging building portfolio. The ...

A composite likelihood technique based on pairwise contributions provides a computationally simple but potentially inefficient approach for fitting spatial point process models. We propose a new ...