Construction Estimating Software Top Ten List Of Must Haves #5

My Top 3

Select the items you use regularly in your construction estimating program.

This is important because you don’t want to waste your time wading through thousands of items that you have no use for. Many Price Book, or “cost book” estimating programs have tens of thousands of items available in the database. An amazing quantity of information! The challenge is that there may be too much information. Lots of cost items that you have no use for.

Unfortunately, most contractors don’t use more than a few hundred, maybe a thousand or so items. So, as you’re doing your takeoff using your construction estimating program, you have to wade through more items that aren’t useful to you to find items you need. This slows down your takeoff process and leads to frustration and errors.

You need a construction estimating program that allows you to have just the items you use at your fingertips so you can estimate faster and easier when you’re trying to get the construction estimate completed so you can present it to your prospect.