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I tend to think I have more to contribute to conest than I do to pdi-bid-estimating. I'd need to know more about the executive philosophy of both before I could decide to switch or stay.
Moreover, what about estimating coordinators and "pdi-estimating-solutions"?
I know very little now, but it doesn't seem many are more certain. I think that's a problem, but at the very least I'd want it explained to me.
Only yesterday I learned about the ConEst budget,1 and with that I feel my understanding has doubled.
ConEst is budgeted per square foot which suggests that total ConEst effort is expected to be proportional to building area, but this is not usually the case in practice. Since larger jobs tend to have more typical work, jobs of every size tend to take about two weeks (80 estimator hours plus change for review). In order for ConEst to estimate as budgeted, we would need standards for acceptable takeoff at multiple levels of estimating detail, which we do not.
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According to christian-pereiro the ConEst budget for the-huehub was ~$240,000. At 5,976,038 sqft per BPM that comes out to almost exactly $0.04 per sqft. ↩︎