When you calculate project costs using effective cost-estimating techniques, you will be able to assign corresponding resources and develop schedules to manage the project successfully.

Independent Electrical Estimating Consultant With more than 35 years of experience as a construction electrician, industrial maintenance electrician, foreman, estimator, estimating manager, and ...

Project managers are asked to provide effort, duration, and cost estimates as a primary part of our jobs. You know then, that the estimation process is partly an art and partly a science. However ...

Project Management Software An effective and simple way to estimate costs and prepare a project budget is to use project management software.

In a previous column we discussed work load management as a basic requisite for keeping your company on an even keel through these challenging economic times. The next basic, perhaps the most ...

Project estimation involves some guesswork, but these techniques will help you manage the uncertainties while continually evaluating a project and your team's confidence in it.

Any project manager knows that no project is completed in perfect circumstances. So you should use the following process and techniques if you want to make your schedule estimate as realistic as ...

This latest release of Corecon’s web-based estimating and project management software offers users several new tools to help manage construction projects.

Last week I received a question about project estimation. If you’re part of a next-generation IT group, project estimation is a critically important capability. If, on the other hand, you’re ...

Marlee Benson is a tenacious advocate for both established and up-and-coming women in the construction industry.