Cybersecurity: Protect your Company
Ransomeware is estimated to cost business 11.5 billion this year alone. And here the reality: construction companies are easy pickings. They don’t understand how smart these pirates are. I am hearing of more and more companies whose data was held ransom and some had to…
How to Change Material Prices in HeavyBid
I train many experienced HCSS HeavyBid and find more often than not that they use the incorrect screen to change material prices throughout the bid. This video shows a better solution. Even if you are using Quote Folders the Change Material screen still has a…
New Cloud RDP
I was at a client’s office the other day and noticed an icon I had not seen before and it turned out that it is an updated RDP client for HCSS Cloud. If you have the Cloud version consider updating to this one or at…
HeavyBid Version 2019.1
This version was just been posted for download. Now is a good time to start planning to update. HCSS Cloud customers remember that you have to the instruct the HCSS Cloud group when you want to upgrade. Hopefully, your company has at least 2018.1 installed….
How to add estimate location without an address
With the new Insights a company can see the locations of their estimates on a map (handy when you are looking for a certain estimate) or just pull up a project location inside the estimate on Google Maps. But many projects don’t have addresses or…
HeavyBid Version 2019.1
We are only a few weeks out from the release of V2019.1. I just happened to be on the “Whats New” tab and found that the notes have been published. Looks like Greg Keenan’s group have really been busy. I will be digesting these but…
Estimating course on LinkedIn Reviewed
*Written by my son and employee whom I refer to as Minion (William Nix). I found Christopher Randall’s construction courses on LinkedIn. His beginner course is approximately 45 minutes long and broken up into three sections: Learning Construction Estimating, Construction Estimating Takeoff, and Construction Estimating…
Tree View – Customized Tab
I was actually in Australia (Newcastle) training when I came to the decision that the customized tab in the resource section is now the one to default to. Now that equipment and labor pieces can be revised without going to the modify crew routine it…
Stop Right Now & Setup Your Credentials
This really drives me crazy as an HCSS Trainer. Even before HeavyBid is installed for new HCSS customer estimators should be set up for each estimator. It is that important! It allows estimators to get in the HCSS Academy and start watching videos on HeavyBid….
HeavyBid: Overtime Rules & Calculations
Users of HeavyBid need to understand the way HeavyBid calculates the overtime factor and how that is used. I have been wanting to do this video for a long time and hope it helps estimators understand this critical concept. It certainly won’t be the last…
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