July 2024

Understanding Bid Bonds and Performance Bonds

April 2024

How to Ensure Departmental Efficiency in Electrical Estimating

January 2024

Estimating Tips for Long Lead Time Items

October 2023

How to Estimate Using Project Management Principles

July  2023

The Most Important Definitions for Electrical Estimators

April 2023

The Danger of Making Assumptions When Estimating

January 2023

How Estimators Can Avoid Costly Mistakes

October 2022

Understanding Labor Hours and Labor Costs

July 2022

Eight Timeless Estimating Principles

April 2022

Identifying Estimator Errors

January 2022

Getting the Bid Out on Time

November 2021

The Importance of Contract Documents in an Estimate

September 2021

Understanding Project Labor Factors

July 2021

How Healthy Is Your Estimating Department?

April 2020

Making the Most of Your Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visit

February 2020

How To Prepare a Proper Estimate

December 2019

The Purpose of the Estimate

October 2019

The Estimator vs. the Project Manager

August 2019

The Estimating Department Checkup ― Part 3 of 3

June 2019

The Estimating Department Checkup — Part 2 of 3

April 2019

The Estimating Department Checkup — Part 1 of 3

February 2019

Understanding Labor-Only Estimates

December 2018

10 Principles for Submitting Better Bids

October 2018

The Penalty for Not Training Your Estimators

August 2018

Understanding Labor – The Impact of Multiple Labor Factors

June 2018

The Estimating Sequence – Part 3

April 2018

The Estimating Sequence – Part 2

February 2018

The Estimating Sequence – Part 1

January 2018

Estimating and Bidding Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make: Part 1

December 2017

Why the Weekly Estimator’s Meeting is So Important

October 2017

To Bid or Not to Bid

August 2017

How to Make a Good Estimate Even Better

March 2017

The Estimator vs. the Take-Off Person

January 2017

The 10 Commandments of the Chief Estimator