Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Estimating Workshop for Residential Contractors

This Estimating Workshop for Residential Contractors is designed for residential remodelers, home improvement contractors and trades. Learn valuable estimating skills to help your business be profitable and successful.

Topics covered in the Estimating Workshop:

• Calculating markup
• Determining your labor burden for employees
• Productive time vs non-productive time
• Using the critical path method as a guide to estimating your projects
• Using your estimating template to generate the scope of work
• Properly identifying and placing direct and indirect costs
  
• Commonly overlooked costs and making sure they are in your estimate
  
• Marking up materials
  
• Marking up subcontract labor and materials
• and much more...

Course Requirements:

Attendees will be required to bring their own laptop computer to the class. Your computer must have Microsoft Excel 2007 or a more recent version. You must be able to work with the Microsoft Excel software loaded on your computer. Please note that this is NOT an excel training seminar. We will provide electrical connections for your computer.

We will provide you with a residential excel estimating template and show you how to use it in the class estimating sample projects.

Who Should Attend?

• Construction Business Owners
  
• Salespeople
  
• Architects and Designers
  
• Estimators
  
• Office Managers
  
• Lead Carpenters and Foreman responsible for building or installing to a budget or responsible for field change orders.

Student Testimonials:

"The information is invaluable and will be a real help to us not only in these hard times but also when things again pick up. Again, thanks for your knowledge and assistance." Brent Williams, Advantage Project Builders

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