As a staff writer for Forbes Advisor, SMB, Kristy helps small business owners find the tools they need to keep their businesses running. She uses the experience of managing her own writing and editing ...

Estimators have never had it easy in the rough-and-tumble world of construction cost estimating—especially when using traditional 2D files or drawings for quantity takeoffs and cost estimates. More ...

Accurate estimates are key to a construction firm’s success. If you overprice a bid, you’ll likely lose the project. But if you underprice it, you’ll lose money and create problems with your partners ...

Maintaining cost-efficient information technology infrastructure is a key operational task of small and large companies. Frequent survey of a firm's IT infrastructure can help a business avoid ...

The construction industry is undergoing a digital revolution, with advanced tools transforming the way projects are planned, budgeted and executed. Estimating software is one such innovation, offering ...

Galorath Incorporated, an AI-powered operational intelligence platform provider, today announced the release of SEERai™, the first agentic artificial intelligence platform purpose-built for cost, ...

As school districts nationwide plan for long-term maintenance and construction costs, they share a number of common concerns. Districts ask: • How much is a typical monthly maintenance bill, and what ...

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a cost-estimation tool for new closed-loop pumped storage hydropower (PSH) plants in the United States. The tool ...

Although the firm's investment in model-based estimating has been complex, Wright says Hoar's estimating team saw the value right away, as the team was at that time working on a hard-bid project, ...