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Trades & Local Services Intermediate

Construction Cost Estimating & Job Costing

Take off quantities, price labour, materials and equipment, build a bid with overhead, profit and contingency, then bill, forecast and measure job profit, all on one clinic project in 8 graded labs.

8 lessons 8 labs 1.9 h Certificate

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What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

  • Take off the slab concrete for the Cedar Street Clinic, add waste and round up to what the supplier actually sells.
  • Price five work items of the Cedar Street Clinic from quantities, labour productivity, a burdened wage, materials and equipment.
  • Turn quantities and crew output into activity durations and the labour cost of the crews on the schedule.
  • Add the job's general conditions to the direct cost, price the clinic with a markup and see why a 15 % markup is not a 15 % margin.
  • Roll the trade costs of the Cedar Street Clinic into a bid: subtotal, contingency, markup, bond and a rounded bid price.
  • Prepare pay application 4 for the Cedar Street Clinic: work completed, this period's billing, retainage and the payment due.
  • Price the approved change orders, forecast the final cost of the clinic by cost code and project the profit at completion.
  • Build a work-in-progress (WIP) schedule for four jobs: % complete, earned revenue, over/under billing and the balance-sheet totals.

About this course

A construction bid is a chain of calculations, and one weak link can turn a win into a loss. This course covers the full chain. You measure quantities with waste and order units, then price a unit-rate estimate from labour hours, wage rates, materials and equipment. Crew productivity labs turn quantities into activity durations. You add indirect costs, overhead and profit while keeping markup and margin apart, and compile a bid summary with contingency. Once the job is running, you bill progress against a schedule of values with retention, handle change orders, estimate cost to complete and estimate at completion, and track earned revenue with over and under billing. For estimators, site managers and construction students.

Curriculum

Course content

8 lessons · 8 labs · 1.9 h · final exam

  1. Quantity takeoff: areas, volumes, waste & order unitsLab14 min4 checked tasks
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  2. Unit-rate estimate: labour hours, rates, materials & equipmentLab15 min4 checked tasks
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  3. Crew productivity & activity durationLab13 min4 checked tasks
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  4. Indirect costs, overhead & profit: markup vs marginLab14 min4 checked tasks
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  5. Bid summary & contingencyLab14 min5 checked tasks
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  6. Progress billing & retention (schedule of values)Lab15 min5 checked tasks
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  7. Change orders, cost to complete & estimate at completionLab16 min4 checked tasks
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  8. Job profitability: earned revenue & over/under billingLab15 min4 checked tasks
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  9. Final exam12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

Certificate

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Complete every lesson and pass the final exam to receive a certificate of completion for this course, with a unique credential ID and a public verification page.

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  • 12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

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Questions about this course

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Do I need Excel or other software?

No. The labs run in a spreadsheet inside your browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Function names and syntax follow Excel.

Is the certificate an official qualification?

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