Estimating: The First Line of Defense for Profits
This revised half day course will focus specifically on Estimating. The ability to effectively prepare for a project is vital to your success. Project preparation consists of multiple processes that work together and, when performed effectively, increase your efficiency and profitability, improve client satisfaction and enhance team and vendor relationships. Come away with the knowledge and skills to perform one of the critical processes in project preparation: estimating costs.
This course is intended for builders, remodelers, developers, architects, designers, construction trades, and associated industry professionals.
By completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Illustrate how estimating and works to assist in effective project set up.
- Identify the fundamentals of estimating to identify the costs (not the selling price).
- Use spreadsheets and packaged estimating systems.
- Identify techniques for estimating in an ever changing market.
This course provides 6 hours of continuing education credits for these NAHB credentials: CAPS, CGA, CGB, CGP, CGR, CMP, CSP, GMB, GMR, Master CSP and MIRM.
This course counts as 3 credit hours towards the required continuing education component of the NAHB Certified Master Building and Remodeling Professional Credentials (CMBP and CMRP).
