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What should I know about The 11 hours a week you are paying an estimator to be a file clerk?
You are paying someone with estimating skills to hunt down files. That is the real cost.
Here is what happens every week. Someone moves a duct. Nobody knows wh
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What should I know about The client asked for a ballpark. You sent a number tied to the model.?
A number tied to the model is a number you can defend. Not a guess scribbled in an email.
Here is what that looks like day to day.
1. Export your model from R
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What should I know when a competitor bids $22,000 lower?
A competitor catching a wall move you missed isn't a pricing problem. It's a takeoff problem. When a wall shifts in Revit, most teams find out at the next coord
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What should I know about The Estimator's Time Card Nobody Wants to Read?
That time card you do not want to read is the one where nothing got installed because a clash sat unresolved. Every week that work is stuck, you are carrying $1
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What should I know about The Same Line Item, Priced by Five People, Five Different Ways?
Five people can price the same line item five different ways. One uses last year's pricing. One guesses. One pulls from a guide That is already stale. You end u
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What should I know about The Two-Hour Meeting You Can Finish in Fifteen Minutes?
Most coordination meetings run two hours because nobody kept a record. BidLight keeps one live record of the project inside Revit and Navisworks, and that is wh
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What should I know about Where Your Estimating Hours Actually Went Last Month?
Most of last month's estimating hours went to chasing. You were comparing exports side by side like it was 2005. You were hunting for issues scattered across Te
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What should I know about The RFI You Wrote Was a Question Your Model Could Have Answered?
Most RFIs are questions your model already answered. Someone moved a duct, nobody wrote down who or when, and now you are drafting an email instead of looking a
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What should I know about The cost of resolving clashes in the field instead of the model. Use the stat card to land one number and one workflow step: the
Every week a clash sits unresolved, and the work behind it stops. That is $15K to $50K in field labor standing idle, every week. Three weeks of that costs more
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What should I know about Live estimate inside Revit: the wall moves, the number updates?
You stop re-doing takeoffs every time the design moves. BidLight keeps one live record of the project inside Revit and Navisworks. Export your model and you get
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