S6 Ep. 1: Guaranteeing accurate estimates with Takeoff

Welcome to “The Better Way: A podcast by Buildertrend.” Here you’ll learn to simplify and establish processes that will make meaningful changes to your company and help you achieve your goals. Because there’s a better way. The Buildertrend way. Tune in this season as Marge Haley, senior manager of customer success, chats with Buildertrend experts on how to master takeoff and ace pre-project planning.

 

Marge Haley and David Livingston, estimating and takeoff specialist, kick off this season with insight into how takeoff software improves the estimating experience for our builders. Say goodbye to hours of manual calculations riddled with mistakes, say hello to guaranteed accurate estimates.

 

How can Buildertrend Takeoff improve the estimating experience for construction teams?

 

David: With any cloud-based software, the unique advantage is you could do it from anywhere. You could be on a flight, if you have wifi, you could be in a hotel, or whatever the case might be, and not only yourself, but multiple parties involved can be running takeoff measurements and quantity calculations all at the same time. And the beautiful part about that is all the effort you're putting in as a team through the takeoff system is automatically populating an estimate in Buildertrend, which then you can use for both internal budget tracking purposes as well as an external contract.

 

How do the new Buildertrend estimating enhancements work with our takeoff software?

 

David: It works out really well. Probably what I'm the most excited about is the ability to not only send over takeoff data, but then what you can do with that data once it gets to the estimate. We have line item actions to be able to create a bid package directly off of quantity calculations. We have the ability to create purchase orders directly off of line items. We can invoice our clients off of those line items. And ultimately everything we're doing, whether you were in the old version of our estimate or now that you're in the new version, all of that's consolidated in a budget report based on your cost code structure. So really, in my opinion, the addition of Takeoff to the software creates a perfect harmony, so to speak, of our estimating experience from the very beginning all the way through the very end of accounting and job costing.

 

 

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