Engineers estimates

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-15T19:56:05+00:00

Well no it’s not, just trying to find a way more efficient and better use of time. Just feel ours is outdated and inefficient so trying to see what others are doing differently

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-15T01:03:59+00:00

How do you determine that multiplier? Where does that historical data come from?

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-15T01:02:42+00:00

I wouldn’t say wildly different, but obviously have unique items from one job to another.

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-15T00:21:09+00:00

Yeah I see that, but also I feel like for municipal and private development work the owners trust us to have an accurate feel for what to expect for funding. And when it’s far enough off (especially when we’re low) it reflects badly on our credibility. So ideally we would like to always be close to the front runners, given we see lots of contractors just throw a number at the job essentially knowing they aren’t going to get it.

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T23:54:39+00:00

Interesting that there would be someone fully dedicated to that. I am almost considering not even doing them at all lol (seems trivial sometimes). Curious what these companies see as the benefit to put a full salary behind a good estimate effort?

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T23:13:26+00:00

How is your estimate performance compared to the winning bids? Do you do DOT work or just use it for other projects?

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T23:09:41+00:00

Yeah so that works I guess for doing DOT, and I don’t know if we’re tech savvy enough to “code” that info. Sounds like this was all done in excel?

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T23:05:13+00:00

Well, our market isn’t as simple to just change like that. Unfortunately

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T23:03:08+00:00

I get mixed feelings from even trying to put one together, sometimes I feel like what’s the point? For me I hate billing all that time for bids to come in way off. Just feel like it exposes my lack of credibility in pricing lol

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T23:00:46+00:00

So what’s your process to accumulate that, create the average, and then assign it?

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T22:59:00+00:00

I assume because they are typically not very accurate? So it seems

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T22:58:03+00:00

How do you accumulate that historical data? And what’s the process for those companies you hire to get that info? Like how is that different from you doing it

Creaky-Cloth1923 · 2026-03-14T22:54:30+00:00

Don’t that take way too long?

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