Participants will develop skills and knowledge to estimate electrical construction projects and prepare a successful bid.
The course is designed for those interested in becoming electrical estimators and for workers with experience in construction that desire to improve their knowledge of electrical estimating.
Course Content:
- Calculate work quantities from engineering drawings
- Assemble efficient crews and determine productivity
- Put into practice effective methods for determining job costs.
- Use essential formats for clearly estimating equipment, labor, material and other service costs related to completing a project.
- Assess and decide how a variety of physical site complexities may affect the estimated cost of a project and use methods to counteract these variances.
- Better identify and interpret general site conditions, special conditions and technical specifications associated with electrical projects.
- Analyze potential projects and decide on which ones to bid
- Understand risk analysis and how to price this into a bid
- Do competitor analysis and understand how this impacts the bid
- Do client risk analysis and how to price this into bids
- Record material and other prices and maintain contact lists
- Formulate a bid strategy
- Understand how to prepare an estimate and the estimating process
- Become familiar with Construction Division Codes
- Understand how to present a bid
- Be familiar with how to use the bid depository
- Understand the requirements for bonding and insurance
- Understand the post-bidding process
- Communicate with project managers to pass on knowledge of the bid prior to mobilization
Dates:
- March 15, 2021 - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (PST)
- March 16, 2021 - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (PST)
Please note the following:
- You will receive an email with easy to follow instructions on how to join the virtual classroom 48 hours prior to the course date.
- Your course manual and handouts will also be emailed to you in a PDF format. It is recommended that you print the handouts as these will be the exercises to be completed in class. You may also want to print the manual to follow along if you do not have a second screen.
- All students are encouraged to use the chat function to ask questions, as well as speaker and microphone during open session discussions.
Credits:
- 2 CCA Gold Seal (16 hours)
- 5 CCA Gold Seal (16 hours plus an online, self-paced portion involving research, reading, and answering questions (7-8 hours) that will be marked by the instructors. Please note you only have one attempt at passing the online portion.)
