re: Construction Management: Industrial and Commercial

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. I graduated in December and am moving to SC to take over all the estimating up there.

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Let me give you a hot tip.

It’s not always a bad thing to NOT be low bidder.

I had a partner once in a nice venture. He wanted to hire a guy and told me “he can bring a million dollars worth of work to the firm now.”

I told him I could get a million dollars worth of work in a week. That was easy. Just might cost two million to do it.

We didn’t hire him and he bounced around the industry and eventually after grinding a few of my friendly competitors in the ground ended up running a used car lot on Florida close to Denham.

It’s not about volume of dollars. It’s about the margin on those dollars. Don’t take work just to say you have work. And I’ve seen this all my life.

As an estimator you are exposed. If you miss division 10 or those pile caps, hollow metal doors, the roof, it will show up. Be patient, be thorough and have other eyeballs check your estimate for mistakes. shite happens. Keep it to a minimum.