Bidding Professionals provides quantity takeoffs and cost estimates to General & Sub contractors under following CSI trades:
Concrete Estimating Services
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Concrete Estimating
Concrete estimating is a process of estimating concrete material; that how many bags of concrete will be required, labour for concrete, and other concrete overheads for any residential or commercial project.
Concrete Estimating Services mainly include concrete takeoffs and cost estimating. It takes a lot of effort and experience to calculate accurate quantity takeoff. Our dedicated concrete estimators make it possible with their hard work and experience-based estimating. We use premium software like BlueBeam Revu, PlanSwift, RSMeans and Kubla Cubed to read and mark structural drawings to calculate concrete quantities. The following image shows a segment of our concrete takeoffs showing the format we use and our detailed and accurate estimate.
Accurate Concrete Estimation
Concrete is the major and one of the most important trades in all types of residential, commercial, and industrial projects. It is the foundation of a building so while calculating concrete material takeoff and estimating, the concrete estimator has to be really accurate to avoid any pre-construction or post-construction losses for the owner or the contractor. Our expert concrete estimators accurately quantify all the major as well as minor concrete quantities like foundations, footings, walls, formwork, etc.
Expert Concrete Estimator
Concrete estimators at Bidding Professionals LLC have served many general contractors, concrete contractors, asphalt contractors, foundation contractors, vendors, and pavers with highly accurate and detailed estimates and material takeoffs. We are well-reputed for our accuracy in the houzz and bluebook.
We have successfully delivered extensive concrete takeoffs and estimations for sidewalks, driveways, retaining walls, concrete pavement, parking lots, flatwork, basements, concrete foundations, concrete curbs, concrete slabs, etc. for several private and public projects.
Our concrete cost estimators have worked on several residential and commercial projects, driveways, highways, dams, and bridges.
Detailed Concrete Takeoffs
Detailed concrete takeoffs and accurate pricing are necessary to avoid any losses during the construction phase. It can affect the profit of the contractor and can end up in a huge loss. At the very beginning of this page, the image shows how detailed and accurate our concrete estimates are. The owner and the bidding party do not have to worry about the concrete cost estimate details and accuracy while working with us. Our detailed concrete estimates have helped our clients to win several residential and commercial projects in the past and we are constantly working on our quality to make our clients win more projects in the future. Our reputation and uniqueness make us stand above our competitors.
A detailed concrete takeoff sheet shows the quantity of material to be used along with the per-unit cost of the respective line item. These details are enough to enhance the profit margin of the contractors and help them win more projects. Our clients outsource their concrete estimation jobs to us to avoid the expenses of an in-house estimation team and focus more on segments of the project.
Outsourcing of Concrete Estimating Services
Following are the benefits of outsourcing concrete estimating services to Bidding Professionals.
- Bidding Professionals has a team of 30+ experienced estimators who can handle a large volume of estimation jobs at a time.
- We can help our clients submit more bids on time.
- We can meet short deadlines.
- You can save time and money.
- Our prices are affordable.
- With the help of premium software like RSMeans and PlanSwift, we can ensure accuracy and error-free estimates.
- We are available 24/7 to answer any of the client’s queries.
- Our post-project support team is one of the best in the field.
Preparation of Concrete Quantity Takeoffs
While providing concrete takeoff services, we start with reading the building drawings/plans and calculating the type and the number of materials required to build the specific building. The calculation of materials in terms of type and amount is referred to as the concrete quantity takeoffs. These calculations are put in an excel spreadsheet in an organized format and delivered to the client. Along with concrete takeoffs, we also provide accurate cost estimations for concrete projects.
Who is Bidding Professionals?
Bidding Professionals is a NewYork-based Construction Estimating Company that provides Construction Estimating Services in the business of helping contractors prepare and win more bids.
Local pricing and accuracy of on-field labor productivity are imperative to win more projects so we help our clients prepare entire bids based on the zip codes and crew sizes.
Most contractors are so occupied with their on-field tasks that they don’t have enough time to do the estimating. Most of the Contractors find time to do the estimation on nights and weekends since they are preoccupied with other tasks like attending important meetings, dealing with vendors and suppliers, internal team management, and day-to-day other business activities.
It shouldn’t go like that!
How Bidding Professionals Helps Our Clients Win More Projects
“I need accurate estimates”
– Every Concrete Contractor in the USA
We have a proficient team of civil engineers capable of delivering 50 projects every week. We bring our concrete estimators on board and engage more estimators on high-priority projects. Our experts guarantee 100% factual construction estimating and takeoffs. Moreover, we use RSMeans for location-based pricing to get the best rates according to zip codes.
We optimize the pricing according to zip codes by incorporating RSMeans pricing with real-time labor productivity to maximize the contractor’s profit. We use RSMeans for local prices but improvise the prices with a calculated factor of labor productivity. We carry out cost estimates according to the price of materials and resources in your local area.
“It’s difficult to find time to do concrete estimates”
-Nightmare of Every Contractor
Every contractor is fed up working late nights and on weekends due to the lack of time. They don’t find time for their multiple projects’ estimations. This is why Bidding Professionals is here to help. We’ve worked with over 500 contractors nationwide helping them find bid opportunities and submitting bids on time.
100% Accuracy Guaranteed
Our Proven Strategies that makes us apart from the market
We have largest client retention rate due to our remarkable bid win ratios in major trades:
- Steel = 55%
- Sitework = 72%
- Drywall = 87%
- Concrete = 45%
- Other Trades = 30%
Most of the time, subcontractors have to meet short deadlines submitting bids to the General Contractors. We, as an estimating team, try to make sure that our clients do not miss a single bid opportunity and our team of experienced estimators make it possible by:
- Working overtime
- Working on the weekends
- Engaging more estimators on a single estimating job
- All this without compromising the quality of work through detailed critical evaluation of the estimate
Our proven strategies enable us to achieve these results. Visual representation of our hierarchical project reviewal.
Concrete Estimate Services FAQs
The cost of 1 CY of concrete depends on a few factors like location of the project, labor rate in that particular area, labor productivity, and cost of material so it is hard to calculate a general cost of concrete.
Outsourcing your concrete estimates to a well-reputed firm has the following advantages:
Cost efficiency
Accuracy
The client can focus on other important matters
No management required for concrete estimation
Different software is used for different purposes. For instance, software like Bluebeam Revu is used to mark and flag the project plans according to the scope to get the accurate number of material takeoffs while some software like PlanSwift is used to calculate the material takeoffs all by itself. Lastly, RSMeans is used to get accurate material and labor prices according to zip codes.
We have been in the estimating industry for the last 8 years and we have worked with more than 30 GCs and around 100 subs. We are working as a complete estimation team for most of our clients. We handle all of their concrete estimating and help them win more bids by preparing accurate and cost-efficient estimates. Along with highly optimized estimates, we charge a really competitive cost per estimate. It all makes us one of the best concrete estimation companies out there.
We provide highly accurate and cost-effective estimation services to our clients. Our regular customers can choose from our monthly packages to get huge discounts. The deliverables include the estimate in a spreadsheet and marked-up plans in pdf format.
It completely depends on the size and complexity of the job but if the client needs to get a job done within a short deadline, we do that by doing that job on high priority. We engage more concrete cost estimators to get that job done.
We have a well-experienced team of engineers, cost estimators, and accountants who do the complete analysis of changing market prices and optimize the prices to help contractors win more bids. We have our employees working on-site who get the actual market prices and compare them with RSMeans updated prices to get the best price for the customer according to zip code.