A position is vacant for Estimator / Quantity Surveyor - Commercial Construction

Our Client are in search of an experienced to work for a company embedded in the Commercial space.

The Company :
An Iconic Queensland business located in Brisbane is seeking an experienced Estimator/ Quantity Surveyor. The candidate should have sound knowledge in performing as an Estimator in the Queensland commercial construction sector. Good estimating skills for multi-story residential, commercial buildings or industrial buildings will be preferred.

Skills and Eligibilities:

• Over 5 years of Estimating experience
• More than 10 years construction experience within the commercial sector
• University qualifications in Construction preferably within Quantity Surveying
• Sound IT experience
• Well versed with applying software like Buildsoft or Cubit
• Any project management experience would be an added benefit
• Steady work history
• Substantial attention to detail and exactness is necessary
• Well-built communication and interpersonal skills

To send your application online, click on the following link
Apply Online

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Rajib Dey

www.constructioncost.co

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Simplify your concrete estimating process with Concrete Foundation Estimator 1.1.1

Progress Builders, a full-service, Design-build company, working on residential construction market, just introduced Concrete Foundation Estimator 1.1.1 compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.

This newest construction app will be a very resourceful and exceptionally influential productivity tool for all contractors and owner-builders.

Concrete Foundation Estimator 1.1.1 was purposely intended to enhance and make the process simpler for estimating and bidding on concrete jobs. This construction software facilitates the Concrete Foundation Estimator to produce professional, editable, easy-to-follow construction bids, estimates, and quotes, together with the all or any part of the following:

• Concrete demolition of existing slabs and footings
• Excavation volume and cost using manual labor or machinery
• Extracted soil hauling and dumping fees
• Crushed concrete hauling and dumping fees
• Materials cost and volume for
• Footings
• Stem walls
• Piers
• Slabs
• Reinforcement
• Shear walls
• Anchor bolts
• All thread retrofits
• Concrete ready-mix or in bags
• Volume, cost and waste %
• Labor for piers, reinforcement assembly and concrete pouring
• Cost of concrete pumping
• Adjustable Workman's compensation rate
• Sales tax in your area for all materials
• Job overhead
• Custom fields to add to estimate

The Concrete Foundation Estimator contains an in-built portfolio page that saves all projects. One will be able to recover and revise estimates instantly, create revisions, make PDF quotes as well as spreadsheets editable in excel. There also exist some in-built Tutorials containing tricks for how to accumulate values from the plans and demonstrated explanations for each section.

While making estimation, you should not have to repeatedly find materials and labor cost. "CFE includes predefined settings which can be changed at your own level of price, time and materials utilized. The users have to get through all sections and update predefined values. You don’t have to update material or labor cost on a regular basis.

Estimator 1.1.1 supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch as well as iOS 8.0 or later.

Concrete Foundation Estimator 1.1.1 will cost $4.99 USD and can be access all through the world via the App Store in the Business category.

Downloadable link

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Rajib Dey

www.constructioncost.co

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The Forthcoming Estimating Courses In July And September By CIIA

Registration is now open for the next class of Collision Industry Information Assistance (CIIA) is going to conduct its basic estimating collision repair training course and one can register for the course online.

This fundamental estimating course is specifically planned to facilitate shop or office employees, new estimators and insurance company staff to simplify their estimating process for collision damage on cars and light trucks in Ontario.

The course covers various topics like introduction to estimating, good perception on vehicle construction, basics of estimate writing, gather knowledge on collision manuals, added charges and collision damage analysis.

The course fee is $550 + HST, for each person for CIIA members and $750 + HST, for each person for non-members. One has to make prior payment to attend the course.

Employers will be liable for a total rebate of two-thirds of the course fees. To register their seat, students must contact the CIIA office at 1-866-309-4272 or e-mailing info@ciia.com.

The forthcoming courses will be organized in two full days in Ottawa, Burlington and Toronto.

OTTAWA: Friday June 24 and Saturday June 25

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

BURLINGTON: Friday July 22 and Saturday July 23

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

TORONTO: Friday September 23 and Saturday September 24

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Rajib Dey

www.constructioncost.co

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Sage Construction Project Center and Sage Bid Management – New cloud based solutions for construction professionals

Sage North America, a trusted name in providing solution with various business management software and services for small and medium businesses, just introduced Sage Construction Project Center and Sage Bid Management. Both are new cloud-based solutions to facilitate the construction companies for handling and collaborating any construction project in a superior manner.

If the collaboration process becomes superior, the project team members can save huge time and cost. Besides, the quality of project is also improved. But it becomes difficult for the constractors, to maintain perfect project collaboration amid various project stakeholders.

By applying these toolset, the project team members will be able to undertake action instantly. It will save huge time and provide support to the team member for being more organized, competent, well-informed and competitive.

Sage Construction Project Center is like a cloud-based center from where the project team members can smoothly collaborate as well as distribute information and ensure that each integrates with other and thus the project is accomplished as per the most updated plans. Here the process is automated for allocating document and tracking which make the communications better and allows quicker approvals to maintain projects on schedule. Audit trails decrease confusion and finger pointing for a more responsible project team. Once the project is completed, as-built project data will be handed over to the project owner to facilitate the persistent maintenance of the finished building.

Sage Bid Management facilitates the estimators and bid coordinators to deal with all phases of the bid process in an efficient manner together with maintaining a complete and up-to-date bidders list via a single cloud-based location. The information for Bid package and updates are to all subcontractors instantly. Subcontractors will be able to post their bids also, simplify the process for tracing all the bids coming in and the dates, time and diverse versions. Consequently, contractors will obtain a greater response from bidders and get adequate time to assess and pick the best bids. The system also tracks subcontractor certification and qualifications to minimize risk and ensure the most suitable sub or vendor is chosen.

Both solutions will operate individually and incorporated with Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate, so to avoid reprocessing of project information. This amalgamation facilitates assigned bids to be converted into subcontracts which can be exploded into numerous line items for project management and for job cost tracking and payment. Basic information allotted ranges from extras, cost codes and categories together with project information like estimates, commitments, costs and revenue.

Sage Construction Project Center and Sage Bid Management will be showcased at the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas, February 2-5, 2016, at booth #C3337.

To get more updates, visit sagecre.com or call 800-628-6583.

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Rajib Dey

www.quantity-takeoff.com

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JUSTIN VANDERBRINK SAYS HOW BEST ESTIMATE CAN BE DONE FOR CLIENTS

The acute estimate of cost or rendering the perfect service is desired to any customer. Whatever would your business, you may run construction companies or a hospital administration, no customer likes financial surprises.

The client may be setting up brand new eatery, restructuring age-old house, the role of a cost estimator is to provide him best possible cost data. Justin Vanderbrink, vice president of Rives E. Worrell Company shared his write up tobusinessinsavannah.com . We are going to present you an excerpt.

The work of cost estimating needs such a level of honesty and integrity. This should be the Unique Selling Proposition (USP) of estimating service.

Sometime what it call a ‘napkin sketch’ which we term as the rough outline of the project in the premature stage. This sketch includes :

1. Square footage,
2. Number of floors
3. Building Height
4. Materials
5. Finishes
6. System

It is experienced that many construction estimating firms are doing it haphazardly, just copying and pasting it elsewhere in accordance with the basic knowledge or any previous calculation.

There are many estimating process which is based on speculations and ifs and buts. This extra-ordinary process gives a clear-cut process that gives estimate to the clients.

Now there is no more any guess work. This new process is certainly not depending on assumption. This is basically in-house developed Art to Science Estimating (ASE) system with the historical cost per square foot. The ASE system provides a complete line-item theoretical and conceptual estimate by drawing upon the cost history developed from several billion dollars worth of projects completed.

The system can take access data from the completed projects as per those were groupified. It can be healthcare, educational, office, courthouse, correctional or research and it can break down unit pricing specific to sub-group. Every cost is updated quarterly, taking into account variations based on local market conditions.

Additionally, the cost index of ASE always helps to refine the price and it gives an exact estimation by taking in account of 14 different material and labor component. Here the client can feel the difference. Most of the firms calculate the estimate only using six elements.

It is our principle that the estimators should not waist time and should not make clients wait. The firms such as Rives E. Worrell Co., a JE Dunn Construction Company looks after these responsibilities at the highest consideration. It is necessary to meet the client for discussing various options and settle on the costs.

It has to be remembered that the client is king. The companies should provide best support to the client’s help.

What are the aspects that clients generally get benefit from:- 

1. Accuracy of estimation
2. Transparency 
3. Well developed risk management (Mainly during early stages of the project when many variables are not yet clear)
4. Time savings
5. Additional Clarification
6. Flexibility throughout the project period.

If these things can be sorted out in time, then only the client can work with self-confidence and place him/herself in a decision making position during the design process. The estimation can be done with great accuracy.

Success and accomplishment is guaranteed in any trade with precise and exact cost estimation. Good cost estimation is not a magic. It cannot be done instantly. An old-hand estimator like Justin Vanderbrink describes the best process here.

It just needs to have a little amount of meticulousness, concentration to detail, knowledge with similar projects and a readiness to invest the time and resources to assist clients clear all their doubts long before the project starts.

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Rajib Dey

www.costestimationjournal.quantity-takeoff.com

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Concrete Calculator for construction

Concrete calculator is a device of estimation. This handy estimatorwould simple needs measurement of feet and inches of length, width and depth of slab to entre for final measurement.

The outcome is so simply. The measurement will be in square feet, cubic feet and cubic yard of any specific project.

Now if the user of this calculatorenters the:

• Amount of waste
• Cost per yard of concrete
• Total cubic yard of concrete

Then the entirety cost will be shown in the text box. A user can differentiate concrete amount and material cost. They can add or minus on the total of it. You can put the percentage of waste product (optional) and press the input to get the result.

If the user wishes to enter other measurement, they have to click the clear button box. This will clear the previous data and users can enter the new one.

Concrete calculator is one of the important aspects of the construction project. It is important to fit the structural strength of the building. Concrete comes premixed in the concrete truck does not mean that the concrete is forever good.

Hole of any measurement with length, breath and depth needs concrete to fill up. The strength of concrete is also very important. Concrete uses the strength, which is 2000 psi (pounds per square inch) concrete.

Now days the buildings are pouring 3000 psi and 4000 psi concrete, depending on the size and complexity of the project.

Some of the bigger homes are designed by an architect and might require a structuralengineer. The structural engineer might require mix designs from the concrete company for his approval.

The requirement of slump is very necessary. There is a concept that the lower the slump the greater the strength but the harder the concrete is to work. The higher the slump the lesser strength & nbsp.

The engineer must know his/her limit to use the concrete. 3000 psi with a three to five inch slump is the limit to stay. The higher slump can jeopardize the situation.

Temperature of the concrete is a factor in summer and winter. Time spend in the truct is also a factor to concern. Foundation of concrete is not an easy thing, small-tint-little mistake could result big money loss.

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Rajib Dey

www.quantity-takeoff.com

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Spreadsheets for Civil Engineering

Estimators used columnar sheets of paper to organize the take off and the estimate itself into rows of items and columns containing the description, quantity and the pricing components. Some of these were similar to accounting ledger paper. They became known as green sheets or spreadsheets.

With the advent of computers in business, estimators began using spreadsheet applications like VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Microsoft Excel to duplicate the traditional tabular format, while automating redundant mathematical formulas.

Many construction cost estimators (over 55%[citation needed]) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, and/or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. While spreadsheets are relatively easy to master and provide a means to create and report a construction cost estimate and or cost models, their benefit comes largely from their ability to partially relieve estimators of mundane calculations. Accuracy, however, is not necessarily improved and productivity is not maximized. For example, data entry remains tedious and prone to error, formula errors are common, and collaboration and information sharing are limited.

In recent years as that access to information has been amplified, we have not seen the need to use all materials, all kinds of tools to gather information and why not to use such information on our behalf, the excel sheets are templates pre-designed than most professionals use in order to improve and accelerate their work, these excel sheets serve as templates, so you can use them again and again and it is only necessary to modify the input data, currently have prepared hundreds of templates excel for civil engineering, many of which are found in all versions of Excel.

Details: 120 Civil Engineering Spreadsheets in Spanish - File Contents

• Calculation of channel
• ACI square columns
• Area of Reinforcing
• Steel Pumps
• Calculation of bearing capacity
• Hydraulic Calculation
• Hydrological Calculation
• Calculation of pressures circuit
• Sewerage Network-Calculus
• Structural Equivalent Loads
• Diagram pressures Drinking Water
• Tanks Sizing
• Diseño Columns
• Design Line Driving
• Design Boards
• Design Blend
• Design Bridge Girder Slab
• Design Settler
• Septic Tank Design
• Retaining wall design

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www.quantity-takeoff.com

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