Don’t Underestimate: Building Information Modeling (BIM)
‘BIM’ around the block! Building information modeling (BIM) has been around for about 50 years now (Wikipedia). Yes! You read that right – 50 years. Though in the 1970s when the concept was developed, BIM (as we know it today) wasn’t really implemented until the…
Set up a test environment for SQL Estimating
Create separate configurations for production and testing by Renee Mullen, Sage Marketing Manager With the newer versions of Sage SQL Estimating there have been new functions within the software — did you know there is a functionality surrounding the Database platform itself? SQL itself brings…
How to archive SQL Estimates
by Renee Mullen, Sage Marketing Manager Do you have too many old estimates (SQL) taking up space? Would you like to back them up Give your SQL instance some elbow room and move them out of the SQL instance? How to archive SQL estimates outside…
Set default values in Sage SQL Estimating
Three easy steps! by Renee Mullen, Sage Marketing Manager When doing takeoffs, have you ever wished that the location or other WBS values would automatically be assigned to items? Sage SQL Estimating not only makes this easy to do but also allows you to see…
Who Put the DDDDDDs in BIM?
by Joanie Hollabaugh, Sr. Director of Marketing In the beginning… While researching some material on BIM construction recently, I began to wonder who or what is responsible for the development of 3D, 4D, and now up to 6D BIM? Literally, who put all the DDDDDDs…
Winning bids that result in profitable jobs
Thinking of low-balling a bid? Does this sound like you? “We are having a hard time winning bids that result in profitable jobs. We can win short-term business by low-balling it, but we cannot survive this way.” Our advice? Never low-ball a job! You just…
Proactively Manage Your Project
Keep your project above water Projects can get underwater quickly if you are not paying attention. Usually, the main reason a project gets off track is that labor costs creep ahead of the current completion level of the project. But, with some monitoring and adjusting,…
Estimating Tip: Highlight It!
by Darren Pierce, Estimating Field Manager, CRE Sales With the recent version of Sage Estimating, we have added a quick way to only see items that are important or need your review – highlight it. Simply right-click any cell and select ‘Edit Highlight.’ To take…
Ten Common Estimating Spreadsheet Errors
by ETHOSystems Don’t underestimate spreadsheet errors! Underestimating a project or losing bids by overestimating can seriously erode profits. Too often these problems are caused by errors in spreadsheets. A PricewaterhouseCoopers study once showed that up to 91 percent of sophisticated spreadsheets contain errors. Another study…
Improve your bid-hit ratio
Reprinted with permission from Sage Top 5 essentials of a winning Estimating strategy Contractors often think if they bid enough jobs to the same customers, eventually they’ll get their share, but this won’t get you the positive results you want. As with fishing, you must…
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