Articles Tagged with ''bidding''

For many cost estimators, the days of working with full-size plans and a single digitizer are a thing of the past. 

As someone who started in construction almost 40 years ago, there are a few truths that never change. 

Last week Ritchie Bros. conducted its first-ever online-only auction in Mexico, at its site in Polotitlán. Traditionally the site sees 80+ percent of its bidders participating in person, so this was a big challenge for the company—and it succeeded. 

If you’re like a lot of busy contractors in the walls and ceilings industry, every day can be bid day if you’re working up multiple bids at the same time. 

When JBKnowledge conducted its 2018 Construction Technology Report, more than 60 percent of the nearly 3,000 construction pros reported still relying on spreadsheets as part of their estimating process.

Technology seems to be simultaneously disrupting and driving change in today’s preconstruction industry.

For many walls and ceilings contractors, the days of estimators working with full-size plans and a single digitizer are a thing of the past.