Construction in Alabama appears to be at a crossroads as a look inside any planroom and contractor’s office would show. The workforce is rapidly aging and not being replaced for new workers. For every five construction worker who retire only one new worker starts.
This is why the Alabama construction industry has started a program to recruit new worker now, even in the middle of recession. Companies realize they need to ensure a qualified workforce now, or risk trouble later. This is one of the reasons the builders of the area are paying for a campaign to recruit new workers out of their own pockets.
As we all know it takes time to learn the skills needed to professionally work on a job site. There is a level of precision and speed that takes time to learn.
Another skill rapidly being lost is the art of estimating jobs. There is an art to it, along with the hard science of numbers. Estimating is the lifeblood of construction companies, when done properly it ensure companies make money. As the construction workforce retires, fewer and fewer estimators are left with the task of dealing with more work.
One way to ensure continued success is to reduce the amount of time estimates and takeoffs take to complete. When an estimator is able to complete 10 estimates in the time it would take to do one companies can get by with fewer estimators.
This type of reduction in time can be accomplished with estimating and takeoff software like PlanSwift.
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