Every building has its price. Accurately forecasting the cost of future projects is an important skill for civil engineers and cost estimators. As the demand for cost estimators has increased over the years, CADD Centre has introduced an exclusive course on Building Estimation & Costing.
The course is based on Autodesk’s Quantity Takeoff, a software solution that helps engineers perform a takeoff on an entire building information model in just minutes – as opposed to days using traditional methods. The software provides greater ?exibility than typical databases or spreadsheets, enabling a smoother, more accurate work-?ow for cost estimators.
The Building Estimation and Costing course can help engineers and estimators make material costing faster, easier, and more accurate. The course is useful for civil engineering and architectural students and professionals.
Upon completion of the course, students can take advantage of digital property data to automatically or manually measure areas and count or price building components such as walls, doors, and window. They can create detailed materials report much faster than paper-based processes. They can also keep their workflow digital and help ensure that reports, materials quantities, and other data remain up to date. Importantly, they can more efficiently count and quantify building components and their compositions.
Our course will cover all key features of Autodesk’s Quantity Takeoff that are related to:
- Building estimation and costing from 2D AutoCAD drawings.
- Creation of synchronized, comprehensive project views that combine important information from building information modeling (BIM) tools such as Revit® Architecture, Revit® Structure, and Revit® MEP software together with geometry, images, and data from other tools.
- Automatic or manual measuring of areas and counting of building components, exporting to Microsoft® Excel®, and publishing to DWF™ format. Autodesk’s Quantity Takeoff supports the takeoff of JPG, TIF, PDF, and other “nonintelligent” image formats.
- Latest Autodesk® technology in the areas of drawing, viewing, quanti?cation, and markup capabilities, uniting design data and other vital information within an open and ?uid architecture. So one can better keep track of changing variables without missing a beat.
- Generating material quantity takeoffs and performing conceptual estimates, regardless of what phase you are in during a project – from design through preconstruction.
More details about the course are available at:
http://www.caddcentre.ws/building_estimation_costing.php