What additional skills must the estimator have to be able to take a quantity survey and turn it into a detailed estimate?
What will be an ideal response?
a. Be able, from looking at the drawings, to visualize the project through its various phases of construction.
b. Have enough construction experience to possess a good knowledge of job conditions, including methods of handling materials on the job, the most economical methods of construction, and labor productivity.
c. Have sufficient knowledge of labor operations and productivity to thus convert them into costs on a project.
d. Be able to keep a database of information on costs of all kinds, including those of labor, material, project overhead, and equipment, as well as knowledge of the availability of all the required items.
e. Be computer literate and know how to manipulate and build various databases and use spreadsheet programs and other estimating software.
f. Be able to meet bid deadlines and still remain calm. Even in the rush of last-minute phone calls and the competitive feeling that seems to electrify the atmosphere just before the bids are due, estimators must “keep their cool.”
g. Have good writing and presentation skills.
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