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# 2026-01-07
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# 2026-01-07 06:41:??
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> [!quote] _The Shadow of the Torturer_, Chapter 17: "The Challenge"
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> No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death---
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> every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright,
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> wrapped in authority older than the universe.
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> They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions.
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> Rightly we feel our lives guided by them,
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> and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them,
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> the builders of the unimaginable,
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> the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.
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>
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> The difficulty lies in learning that we ourselves encompass forces equally great.
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> We say, "I will," and "I will not," and imagine ourselves
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> (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters,
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> when the truth is that our masters are sleeping.
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> One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts,
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> though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.
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# 2026-01-07 10:03:??
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At Ace, "residential" always meant single-family/duplex construction,
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but I think now we were the outliers.
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# 2026-01-07 10:05:??
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See [[pdi-breakdowns#Location]].
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I have---for some time now---
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been trying to figure out the purpose of the non-system breakdowns.
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[[location-vs-scope]]
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Perhaps there is another dichotomy
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in that an estimator may use the area classifications of the design
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or according to their own understanding of each term.
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For lack of a better example,
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whether a "101 - KITCHEN", without provisions for cooking,
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would be broken down under "Kitchen".
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# 2026-01-07 10:42:??
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When I got to work today Art admonished a fellow estimator
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for not uploading _all_ of a project's drawings,
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even those they did not intend to take off, to Trimble Connect.
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Art suggested that the estimator should upload all the drawings,
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but only add them to LiveCount as needed.
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I take issue with the suggestion on principle
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since doing so would not benefit the estimator or their senior
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(if they aren't added, the estimator can do nothing with them),
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but would require not-insignificant effort.
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Effort that would ultimately benefit no one:---
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Trimble Connect's ham-fisted approach to version control
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means that the fewer times it must be used, the better.
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> I'm currently dealing with the headache of an estimate
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> where such caution was not applied.
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The probability that any construction will be performed
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according the drawings that we take off
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(or even their immediate successors)
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I suspect is slim to zero.
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That Ops would have the patience to add the revisions,
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fighting with Trimble Connect as they would be,
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I suspect is even less.
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> On my current project, after trying in vain to play by Trimble's rules,
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> I started by deleting all the drawings I could
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> (those without takeoff associated with them)
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> then reuploaded the revised set.
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> I'm confident that this would be the dominant strategy.
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***
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It's curious to me that the possibility of scope revisions
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doesn't seem to be at the front of every estimator's mind
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when doing takeoff or considering process changes,
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like it was for my mentors and peers at Ace.
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# 2026-01-07 12:13:??
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#occupational #topic/estimating #topic/organization
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Just now Jorge admonished another peer
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for using insulated wire for pool bonding,
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his rational was flawed beyond saving
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(something about the difference between bonding and grounding),
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but stemmed from a frustratingly common misunderstanding
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that our Accubid assemblies are intended to be an accurate list
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of the material to be installed.
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They are not.
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If they were intended to be accurate,
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there would need to be several times as many.
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They are a compromise between accuracy and estimator effort.
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It should be assumed that for common scope,
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at least one assembly should be acceptable as-is.
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Pool bonding is required for at least a quarter of our jobs.
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We have no bonding assemblies with bare wire.
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Therefore it must be assumed that it was determined
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that it would be acceptable to represent bare wire bonding with insulated wire items,
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because otherwise it would be necessary to have double the assemblies,
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or to expect estimators to substitute each size of wire
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everywhere bare was necessary.
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See [[realism-vs-instrumentalism]].
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# 2026-01-07 16:03:??
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#occupational #topic/estimating #topic/organization
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There is a palpable animosity for [[pdi-estimating#Bid Estimating|Bid]]
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in [[pdi-estimating#Construction Estimating (ConEst)|ConEst]],
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stemming---I believe---from an lack of buy-in on Bid's part.
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Their lack is easily explained by their [[estimating-culture#Incentives|incentive structure]]:
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Since throughput is systematically prioritized over accuracy,
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ConEst has a strictly antagonistic role
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because it slows down the bid process.
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