Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it: It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance. Now, a non-trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and ...

In the early 2000s, Jim Hammond decided to shift his highway and heavy civil construction career and begin working for the toughest boss he's ever known – himself. Hammond launched Hammond Estimating ...

As the oil and gas industry explores new regions, the role of cost estimating to support the projects becomes more challenging. Cost estimating for the most part is a specialized field whose end ...

Vertigraph's BidScreen XL serves as a takeoff and estimating software solution for businesses in the construction industry. The product is an add-in to Microsoft Excel, enabling contractors to manage ...

Accurate estimates are essential to a construction firm’s success. Overprice a bid and you’ll likely lose the project. Underprice it and you risk losing money and damaging relationships with partners ...

A few years back, a colleague shared an interesting exercise with me. He took a deck of cards, split it in half, turned one half face up, then mixed all the cards up on a table and asked me how many ...

One of the first tasks when managing a project is the cost estimate. A cost estimate must be accurate, transparent and reliable. These factors are particularly important for a small business because ...

Building out its project management platform further into preconstruction, Procore announced on Oct. 27 that it has acquired estimating software maker Esticom. based in Austin, Texas, Esticom ...

The estimating process – like other industry processes – has improved over the years through better communications, computers, and software. But computers and software will not make you an estimator ...

For years, a large organization faced significant challenges in managing the complex and often unpredictable costs of maintaining, upgrading and adding to its aging building portfolio. The ...