Saturday, February 7, 2015

A Job Description For A Freelance Construction Estimator

By Beryl Dalton


The construction of a building requires a lot of analysis and a lot of planning especially with the cost because it is actually very expensive to create an infrastructure or a building. Now one of the things that a company can do would be to make use of the services of a freelance construction estimator to help in knowing the certain costs. Now here are the duties of these people and how they can help companies.

The first thing that they have to do would be to do an analysis of the blueprint of the infrastructure in which the blueprints would come from the construction manager. With this and other documents that will help, he will be estimating how much the materials are going to cost, how much the equipment will be, and how much the labor costs are. He will also analyze how long it should take to finish building the infrastructure.

Now he also has to make sure that the products and the services that will be used on the project are good. They have to ensure the client that they are effective and they can be maximized in order for the project to be successful. Aside from that, they also have to know just how effective they will be.

Now once he does the analysis of the blueprints and the assessing of the products, then he has to go to the foreman to know the actual costs. In here, he will be reconciling the costs in order to see if the costs that he analyzed are pretty much the same as the one from the construction foreman. Of course if it is not, then he has to resolve those issues and try to get the best prices from the foreman.

Another job of theirs would be to work together with professional engineers and architects in getting the exact costs of the materials that will have to be used for the project. Of course these professionals are the ones who would know more about the materials that are being used in this sort of job. So in order to know exactly about the costs, the estimators must associate with them.

Now upon getting all of the figures properly, then the next thing to do would be to draft a presentation that will be shown to the management of a client company. Now this will help with the planning, the organization, and the creation of strategies of the company. The client company will be consulting with the estimator on how to go about with the figures.

Of course with this, they have to also give suggestions on which subcontractors to hire. They also are the ones who will suggest where to get the best materials. They will try to decrease the costs but retain the quality of the products.

So as one can see, an estimator can be very helpful to anyone who would want to create a building or an infrastructure. They will be the ones who will try to cut down the costs of the client. They will also make sure that the end result is good.




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