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CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATING
Construction Experts Inc provides high quality, interactive online construction education courses to construction students who want to advance their career.
Register Today – Courses Begin April 10th.
Orientation starts April 4th
Registration Ends April 13th Check with your school of choice to confirm their registration dates.
ADVANCE YOUR ESTIMATING SKILLS
With Online Classes
- Having served over 1,200 estimators for more than 20 years, our commercial estimating courses continue to provide construction estimators with the tools, knowledge and practice to advance and hone their estimating skills.
- All commercial estimating courses are virtual with weekly flexible pacing to make it easy for busy professionals to find the time to study.
- 10-week classes are available 4 times a year.
- Students can create custom learning plans to complete the certificate program based on their goals and what is needed in their field of work.
- Students will learn from estimating professionals currently working in the field.
At Construction Experts Inc., students get a choice of which school they would like to take commercial estimating courses through. Students can choose to register through one of the following schools to sign up for classes in the Certificate in Construction Estimating
Our students come to us from the construction industry whether it be 10 years, 10 days, 10 months or 10 minutes!
Whether you are an experienced construction professional or at the beginning of your career, these commercial estimating courses will provide you with the resources, practice, and feedback to get you to the next level in your career. Estimating students will learn valuable skills and strategies in the following classes:
100 SERIES
INCLUDED:
- Quantity take off techniques
- How to organize the estimate
- Pricing techniques
Estimating labor, materials, and equipment - Profit and overhead markups
"This is my second course with Harry and I really appreciate his presentation of the subject matter. Very accessible, engaging, and provides enough depth while not getting stuck in the weeds. I highly recommend him as an instructor and will gladly encourage anyone else who expresses any interest in estimating to give this course a try!"
INCLUDED:
- Convert measurements from fractions to decimals
- Convert measurements from cubic feet to cubic yards
- Measure volume of footings, slabs, walls, and columns
- Calculate board feet
"I liked the real world construction math problems. Will use in many projects.”
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- Develop the skill sets that are used to read plans as it relates to building construction projects
- Find trade specific information in plans
- Identify errors with the plans you are using
"This class was awesome, it gave me a baseline of how to read and understand blueprints which will be critical for my future."
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- Estimate General Conditions costs
- Calculate unit prices and total cost
- Prepare a quantity take off and conceptual estimate
- Estimate for excavation and backfill
- Estimate for concrete and formwork
"This course has me feeling more empowered than ever."
"I enjoyed taking this class. After this week I will have completed 5 of the 6 courses required for the certification. Prior to taking my first class last winter, I had next to no blueprint reading experience. After taking 5 courses through this program, I am 100% confident at print reading and quantifying take offs for work related to my trade. I have successfully landed jobs that we would never have been able to land 2 years ago. These courses have already paid for themselves."
"The main thing that I leaned in this course is about arranging information on a spreadsheet. I have done a lot of bids at my work, but I am not the one who puts the costs onto the spreadsheet and prepares our proposals. That is the main area where I could improve.
I have been estimating concrete for the past 15 months, so I am already proficient at the calculations and take-offs."
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- Estimate structural steel
- Estimate carpentry
- Quantity take off for mechanical and electrical construction
- Quantity take off for finishes, roofing and waterproofing
"I found the material engaging and applicable to general contractor estimating. The last couple weeks to me, have been the most informative"
"I found the material engaging and applicable to general contractor estimating. The last couple weeks to me, have been the most informative."
"This course has helped me go into new estimates with more confidence. I can better break each area down and go through it more systematically."
"This course was an excellent way of rounding out the information I learned from the one prior to it. Almost all of the information I got from this course I’ll be able to apply to my actual job, and hopefully continue moving forward in an estimating career."
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- Recognize quality control procedures for various materials
- Understand how the materials are used in construction
- Understand how materials are manufactured and incorporated into structures
- Know the history of each material covered and is used in construction
"Works perfectly for my workload at work and schedule. The content: it’s our every day life in the construction world. I could apply my knowledge right away at work."
"Instructor was quick to grade and structured quiz questions and discussion questions very well! Thank you very much."
"Overall the class was informative. I appreciated and learned quite a bit from my classmates through there post, uploads, and the way they cited there material. Thank you all for the insight and inputs. Thank you all for making this a fun, exiting, and very informative class."
"This was my first construction course. All of the material was new to me and I found very helpful. Being the new intern at a GC, there was so much terms and vocabulary that was alien to me but I was able to familiarize myself with a lot in this class. I enjoyed seeing my classmates projects and insights as well. I liked concrete, foundations and finishes the most because they bridge the gap between the earth and the building and what we see when we walk into a finished building."
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- Quantity take offs for civil construction work
- Calculate unit prices and total cost
- Determine crew make up and productivity
- Estimate for excavation and backfill
- Calculate labor, equipment, and material costs for civil construction works
"I very much appreciated learning how to use the Cat performance handbook and understanding cycle time. I will take that and run with it. Shrink/Swell-Appreciated spending time on the topic"
"The most useful portion of the class for me was the section on estimating earthwork. Learning how to calculate the production of an earthmoving crew and their equipment was exactly the type of skill I was looking for when i signed up for this class. "
"From taking this class, I'm a little more confident to do take-offs and understand civil drawings more prior to taking the class. Before it would take me a while to understand how to read it, but I'll definitely be finding more use out of that and understanding some of our subcontractor's scope of work when doing excavation, backfilling & trenching, etc."
"One useful skill is just learning the formulas for different types of trenches and excavation requirements. The homework was challenging and very thought provoking. Some assignments took way too much time for my liking, but that is to be expected for a class like this."
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200 SERIES
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- Become familiar with the process of project planning and the efficiencies derived from planning.
- Be familiar with computerized scheduling and understand both its limitations and advantages.
- Be able to prepare a short procurement schedule.
- Be able to prepare a bar chart schedule and use it properly.
- Learn about schedule acceleration methods and how to apply them.
"I have used all of the different tools I picked up in this course in my work. I really enjoyed learning about the start-to-start relationship, finish-to-finish, finish-to-start because it is something that I use to pick up time on the schedule and it works! It is a great tool that really only takes a bit of common sense and basic understanding of the sequence of things."
"I have used several details I have learned in this class already, creating a baseline on our project schedules, working implementing pull plans for our MEP trades on a couple projects. We are also using the resources and labor functions in Microsoft project to track our general conditions and supervision budgets on our projects. We don't normally do this but we started doing this on two projects in the last month."
"What I have learned in this class created a baseline for our project schedules, working implementing pull plans for our MEP trades on a couple projects. We are also using the resources and labor functions in Microsoft project to track our general conditions and supervision budgets on our projects. We don't normally do this but we started doing this on two projects in the last month. I have also been able to get a few teams to show more activities on their schedules which helps our submittal and procurement schedule."
"I have found that the trades are more responsive and less confused with the new schedules."
"The one thing that stands out to me in this class is that, if done correctly with a good amount of detail, your schedule can do much more for you than just being a discussion topic on the meeting minutes or a document to pass along to project members and documenting progress."
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Students can choose to register through one of the following schools to sign up for classes in the Certificate in Construction Estimating.