PAINTING COURSES
1 Week Course
For students wanting to increase there knowledge in one discipline with a brief overview of our 2 week course.
2 Week Course
For students with a knowledge of or has obtained enough field experience to fullfill a highly accelerated course of study.
These courses are designed to help you read construction drawings, details and specifications, assemble the correct facts and to apply special formulae to improve your estimating skills on medium to large size
projects. In the time span of one, or two weeks, you will learn how to organize procedures to reduce errors and save time. You will learn how to spot unusual job requirements, and thus avoid the bad jobs.You will learn how to prepare estimates that can be adjusted to variable economic conditions and geographical areas.
Specific course content includes:
GENERAL ESTIMATING BACKGROUND
This covers specification analysis, mathematical tricks of the trade, and organization.
THE QUANTITY TAKE-OFF
Includes systematic take-off methods and sequence color coding.
EXTENDING THE ESTIMATE
This includes general rules and quantity summary methods.
PRICING THE ESTIMATE
Includes general rules, sources of price information, production rates that you can put into practice immediately, and accurate summary and unit pricing using man days or dollar unit pricing depending on what part of the country you are from.
ESTIMATE SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Covers general rules used by many successful contractors. Bids, Adds, Deducts, Escalation, and construction procedures on projects that require special scrutiny.
SPECIAL ESTIMATING APPLICATIONS
Includes bidding strategies, cost control, productivity, cash flow, manpower management, forecasting, federal specifications, fire classifications and fire ratings.
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