• Do you spend your nights and weekends estimating jobs?
• Do you wish that there were more efficient templates and tools at your disposal?
• Do you want to take your building business to the next level?
• Do you want to relieve some of your stress?
• Do you want to take on bigger projects but are pressed for estimating time?
• Are you in the need for need professional help to understand the time saving templates and tools offered here?
We provide the small to medium Construction Firms an alternative to the expensive and hard to use software.
Our experienced team has developed a complete set of Templates and Tools to efficiently develop an accurate building estimate.
From sketched plans to architectural designs with full specifications; Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC will provide the Worksheets, Templates, Assembles, and Summaries, to provide detailed estimates for:
• Design/Build Commercial from a one-line drawing with preliminary elevations
• Design/Build Residential from a one-line drawing with preliminary elevations
• Negotiated Commercial with full Plans and Specifications
• Negotiated Residential with full Plans and Specifications
• Hard bid Commercial with full Plans and Specifications
• Hard bid Residential with full Plans and Specifications
• Budgeting & Forecasting Templates
• Rental pro-forma Templates
Our Excel based Worksheets, Templates, Assembles, and Summaries are easily understood. They follow a Building Logic that is being used today and has been used for centuries. This Logic is what you know best.
Our Main Estimating Template is formatted the way you would actually build the project and has 130 individual work assemblies with formatted unit prices (I will only name a few) from:
❖ Permitting, Site Mobilization, Clear, Grub, Load, Trucking, and Dump Fees
❖ Demolition, Set Batter Boards, Excavations, Earthwork, Concrete Footings, Masonry Stem Wall, Backfill & Compact
❖ Rough Grade & Compact Slab on Grade
❖ Underground Plumbing. Electrical, Air Conditioning, & Other
❖ Finish Grade, Compact, Form, Wire/Steel, Pour, Cure, and Strip Slab on Grade
❖ Install Masonry to First Beam including Cell Fill, Columns to First Beam, & Concrete First Beam
Our Estimating Template Has 130 Work Assemblies. Please E-mail me at dbuild16@gmail.com for all your Building Estimating needs. We can design a template specifically for your needs.
Excel Estimating Templates Included
Download from our PDF Sample List of Excel Tools:
Estimating Template CSI Format
• Divisions 1-16 most commonly used
• Sections 01000-16900
• 2482 lines of Worksheets, Assembles, & Summaries
• 4 Page CSI Format Summary
• Hyperlink from Specific CSI Section Reference to Worksheet Assemblies
• Hyperlink back to Specific CSI Section Reference from Worksheet
• Built in unit prices…All you need is to input your take off
• With this Estimating Template you don’t need to be an Estimator
• Most of your take off can be entered by someone Excel proficient; so, you can continue your take off from the Plans
• In several cases; entering a number can get you multiple results, as one Assembly relates to other Assembles creating multiple estimates:
▪ By entering the perimeter of the shell’s footing for example:
▪ Width & depth you get excavations, cubic yards of concrete, cost of concrete, form boards, stakes, footing chairs, pumping, labor, materials, & equipment
▪ Add masonry stem wall height and you get # of block, concrete cell fill,concrete stem wall column concrete and rebar, including labor & materials
▪ Add # of rebar and you will get cost of rebar and labor
▪ Add # of feet of overhang to the stucco worksheet and you get your stucco estimate
▪ You also get perimeter wall framing, wall insulation, drywall, painting interior &exterior painting
• The Excel Template is in a Protective Mode so as to not lose Formatting.
• Make all entries in the Light Blue areas… All other areas in Salmon are protected
• The Yellow areas are my built-in prices. Unprotect; then change, then protect again
Large DEB Spreadsheet
• Another way of compiling an estimate for Presentation
Carpentry Take-off Worksheet
• Database of unit labor rates for Carpentry
Demolition Take-off Worksheet
• Database of unit labor rates for Demolition
• By square foot
• By lineal foot
• By the hour
Drywall & Painting Take-off Worksheet
• 7 Assemblies identified by area
• Insert Lineal feet & height in each area
❖ Get Framing price
❖ Get Hanging & finishing price
❖ Get Insulation price
❖ Provide # of door jambs &get Installation of door jambs if applicable
• Painting is being tabulated…Just enter the # of door frames, lineal feet of wood base if any, # of doors to be painted, and lineal feet of crown molding or other painted wood.
Cubic Yard Calculator
• Free
Unit Price Database
• Over 200 Unit Prices
Post Bid Analysis
• Enter Your Projects and Your Subcontractor’s Proposals
Subcontractor and Supplier Database
• Over 400 Names, Contact Persons, Phone Numbers, Email Addresses
• Over 50 Trades
Excel Management Templates for Sale (See price List)
Application for Payment
• Document G702
❖ Architect’s Certificate for Payment
• Document G703
❖ Schedule of Values
Unit Price Application for Payment
• Schedule of Values in a Unit Quantity Format
Request for Information Worksheet
Request for Information Log
Submittal Worksheet
Submittal Log
Transmittal Worksheet
Transmittal Log
Purchase Order Worksheet
Purchase Order Log
Rental Proforma
• Based on a 30-year amortization
• See sample
Sample Site Safety Plan
Sample Hurricane Preparedness Plan
Sample Owner’s Contract
Change Order Management Training Instructions
Remember, 2 hours of training (via GoToMeeting) is included in our fee.
Additional training:
• $50.00 Per hour by phone or GoToMeeting
Just one last Reminder
Building an estimate; is based on the information available to the estimator at the time of estimating, e.g. working drawings, engineering specifications, building contract, color selections, energy reports, soil reports etc. The more information available at the time of estimation the more accurate the estimate will be.
Construction projects require many trades, suppliers and manufacturers. Accurate building estimating can only be achieved through training, having the best tools & templates available, & experience.
Easy Estimations can break down all your costs involved giving you accurate budgeting tool.
Detailed building estimates allow for almost every item that will be required as a part of the construction and provide an individual price allowed for each item providing you, with an itemized budget. With an itemized building budget, you have the price for each item that you will require. If you spend more than the allowance on an item you will know you have to save on something else or you will go over your budget.
Please see below what is included in the Estimating Tools Package: (none sold separately)
(See Pricing on the Pricing Tab)
Estimating Template CSI Format
Unit Price Database
Large Summary Spreadsheet
Carpentry Take-off including Database
Demolition Take-off including Database
Drywall & Painting Take-off including Database
Cubic Yard Calculator
Subcontractor & Supplier Database (bonus worth hundreds of dollars)
❖ 50 Trades
❖ 400 Subcontractors & Suppliers
❖ Including Contact, Phone, & Email Addresses
❖ CSI Section Format
❖ Hyperlink to trade or CSI Section
Post Bid Analysis
Owner’s Contract
Please see below what is sold separately: (See Pricing on the Pricing Tab)
Application for Payment
Unit Price Application for Payment
Request for Information Worksheet
Request for Information Log
Submittal Worksheet
Submittal Log
Transmittal Worksheet
Transmittal Log
Purchase Order Worksheet
Purchase Order Log
Rental Proforma
Sample Site Safety Plan
Sample Hurricane Preparedness Plan
Change Order Management Training Instructions
Click “Go to Meeting” for a free presentation of our Product.
In addition; feel free to participate by navigating to the sample worksheets and assemblies, by the use of the hyperlinks provided.
Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC is a Florida Certified General Contractor (CGC004492) and Consultant to various firms doing business in South Florida.