Cost Estimating Definitions
I found this in Wikipedia and highly recommend this for review for all estimators, project managers and even people who are in accounting that work with budgets and day to day construction operations. This is actually better than what I find in most construction estimating…
HCSS Custom Reports
If there was “my most important blog post of the year” category this would be it. HCSS has a great custom reports group that can do amazing things for a very reasonable price. It is a service that HCSS struggles to get the word out…
Optional Setting – Quote Folders
In Quote Folders there is a function that requires the estimator to update the quote folders from the current estimate information. It is called “Estimate has Changed“. The default is that it will show you only the actions that can be modified. For example the…
HeavyBid Features Added from Version 2016 to 2018.1
I am finding that many HeavyBid users just don’t have time to look at the What’s New section so I created this spreadsheet that can be sorted from importance (1 through 5). I added the rankings but feel free to add your own notes and…
Determining HeavyBid Resource Escalation Cost
I discovered this today in my training. The Escalation feature of HeavyBid does a great job of calculating escalation per resource type, or per individual resource. You can show the escalation charge per resource type and total it in a report. This might be required…
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