Estimating

20 video lessons on estimating, in German, English, French, Italian, Chinese, Bulgarian and Spanish, set in Germany, the United States, Ontario (Canada), Québec (Canada), Italy, China, Bulgaria, Spain and the United Kingdom, plus lessons for any country. Each one is shown step by step in OpenConstructionERP, with chapters and a full transcript. In other languages: Kalkulation · Estimation · Kalkulacija.

1. 6:36 DE Einheitspreise und Kosten nachvollziehen How is a unit rate built from labour, material and equipment, and how does a change in labour time change the price?
2. 7:35 DE Kostenquellen und Ressourcen anpassen How do I take a rate from a regional cost database, check its origin and scope, and reprice it with my own labour and plant rates?
3. 10:14 DE · Germany Vom vollständigen LV zur Kostenbasis How do I turn a fully priced bill into a checked, locked cost base and budget before tender award?
4. 4:47 EN · United States Build a Construction Estimate Step by Step Build a priced construction estimate from an empty page. A Denver duplex, ten positions in five sections, and every rate traced back to where it came from.
5. 3:54 EN · United States Construction Pricing: Overhead, Profit & Contingency The estimate says what the job costs. The price says what you charge. Turn a direct cost into a bid price with overhead, profit and contingency, then check it, save a version and export it.
6. 4:49 EN · Canada · Ontario Price a Construction Job Every bid on a Toronto job comes down to one number: your contract price, in Canadian dollars, with markups and bond, before HST. Price six stacked townhomes and turn their cost into that number.
7. 4:17 FR · Canada · Québec Estimer un projet de construction How do I price a Montréal job with markups, and where do GST, QST and my RBQ licence number go?
8. 5:06 FR Budget de chantier : justifier chaque coût How can I explain every line of my project budget before we commit to the site?
9. 4:25 IT · IT Come leggere il computo metrico prima di fare l'offerta How do I check a computo metrico estimativo line by line before I bid, and which part of the total can be discounted?
10. 4:39 IT · IT Ribasso d'offerta: analisi prezzi e margine How far can I lower my bid before the job loses money, once site overheads are counted?
11. 5:03 ZH · CN 工程量清单投标价怎么算：四大块与增值税陷阱 How do I build a bid price in four blocks under the new Chinese standard without charging VAT twice on a provisional sum?
12. 1:57 BG · BG КСС и оферта: импорт от Excel, проверка на цените и ДДС How do I import a bill of quantities from Excel, check the prices and add VAT to get a bid total?
13. 2:14 BG · BG Анализ на единична цена: материали, труд, механизация и печалба How do I explain a unit price, such as EUR 146 per m3 of concrete, as materials, labour and plant plus overheads and profit?
14. 2:40 ES · ES Importar BC3 y preparar una oferta de obra: PEM, gastos y baja How do I import the BC3 from a tender, add overheads and profit, and prepare a bid with a baja without losing the original budget?
15. 2:09 ES · ES Precio contradictorio: valorar y aprobar un cambio de obra A client asks for a unit of work that is not in the project: how do I build its precio contradictorio and get it approved?
16. 3:45 DE · Germany Kostenrahmen nach DIN 276 erstellen How do I set up a project in Germany and give the client a first cost figure, the Kostenrahmen to DIN 276, before there is a plan?
17. 3:28 DE · Germany Kostenschätzung nach DIN 276 erstellen How do I turn the first design into a Kostenschätzung and show the council exactly what changed against the Kostenrahmen?
18. 3:36 DE · Germany Kostenberechnung nach DIN 276 How do I build the Kostenberechnung at second level of DIN 276 and justify its difference to the Kostenschätzung before the council decides to build?
19. 3:40 DE · Germany Kostenvoranschlag und GAEB How do I price the Rohbau bill of quantities myself, report the Kostenvoranschlag to the client, and send the bill to bidders as GAEB without my prices?
20. 5:53 EN · GB How to Price a Construction Tender (NRM 2) We price a UK construction tender in OpenConstructionERP, starting with the bill of quantities and working through to the tender sum. The example follows an NRM 2 structure and includes measured work, subcontract quotes, preliminaries, risk, overheads and profit.

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