As population continue to move and as schools age many school districts around the country are finding they need to either build new schools or remodel current schools. However, the local governments are paying close attention to school construction costs, much more attention than ever before.
This is providing a great opportunity for contractors who are able to provide many different possible options very quickly. The different estimates will allow the school boards to weight their options and come up with the best possible solution.
“I wanted to write you and express my feelings about PlanSwift. When I first found an advertisement for PlanSwift in a construction journal, I thought ,” great “, another estimating software. I have tried similar products in the past, and nothing has really stuck. Either too complicated, setup takes too long or moving through the platform has not improved my speed. I have always resorted back to hard line drawings which I am more comfortable with. I started to close the journal, when I noticed there was a free trial. That’s when I spent the time to go on the website and I learned a lot more. The video instructions that you supplied were better than any higher priced software that I used before. I was up and running in one night. Since the free trial and your support, I have purchased it. It is very reasonable. I have increased my efficiency in producing bids and I think that is improving as I have the time to watch the videos. I am not being solicited to write this letter, I just wanted to tell you and a few old timers that might see this, that this software is very (very!) user friendly. Thanks again for your support, Best Regards.”-Tedco Corp. / Ted Lewis
This may mean the need to estimator to run many different estimates, some with very little variance between the previous one.
Doing this type of estimating by hand can become a tedious and frustrating exercise, and can easily cause many to give up.
The best way to combat this level of frustration is to adopt construction takeoff and estimating software that will do the labor intensive work.
“I’ve been in the Design-Build industry for more than 20 years and used a lot of sophisticated estimating programs like W****t, but it is incredible the potential that was unleashed when I started use PlanSwift, first the uncomplicated way to use it and secondly the convenience of customizing it to yours need and finally, the affordable price that you invest in the software. Awesome!”-RAS Construction Corp / Reiner A. Sanchez
With these programs people can reduce the amount of time involved in estimates by up to 90%, plus with assembly based programs updating small items throughout the estimate can be as simple as changing them in one spot. The program will do the rest.
Construction companies need to take advantage of every opportunity they can right now, so they can survive until conditions improve. Using the right tools will make this much easier.