Tag: Bids
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How to Use AI Takeoff Software for Accurate Bids
In the fast-paced world of construction, accurate bids can make or break your business. Miscalculations, missed quantities, or overlooked changes in plans can lead to costly delays and lost projects. That’s why more contractors and estimators are turning to AI-based takeoff software. These tools simplify the estimating process, improve accuracy, and help teams submit bids…
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How to Use AI Takeoff Software for Accurate Bids
In the fast-paced world of construction, accurate bids can make or break your business. Miscalculations, missed quantities, or overlooked changes in plans can lead to costly delays and lost projects. That’s why more contractors and estimators are turning to AI-based takeoff software. These tools simplify the estimating process, improve accuracy, and help teams submit bids…
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Why strategy trumps process in pursuing bids
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Chad Prinkey is CEO of Well Built Construction Consulting, a Baltimore-based firm that delivers strategic consulting, facilitation services and peer roundtables for construction executives. Opinions are the author’s own. We’ve all heard it: Trust the process. Much…
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The Risks of Poorly Translated Bids
Your latest TikTok video showcasing that intricate parking-garage mural time-lapse just hit 2.3 million views. Your LinkedIn posts about project milestones are generating serious interest from developers and architects across the country. Your digital marketing strategy is working—perhaps too well. Because here’s what nobody talks about in those “contractors need digital muscle” articles: when your…
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Construction Firms Embracing Tech Gain Competitive Edge in Bids, Revenue, and Talent
Don’t underestimate what technology can do for a construction business. That’s the overriding message from a newly released benchmarking report covering the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. Findings from the 2025 AEC Inspire Report from Unanet [of which I am co-author] show a clear performance divide between AEC firms that are mature in their…
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Construction Firms Embracing Tech Gain Competitive Edge in Bids, Revenue, and Talent
Don’t underestimate what technology can do for a construction business. That’s the overriding message from a newly released benchmarking report covering the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. Findings from the 2025 AEC Inspire Report from Unanet [of which I am co-author] show a clear performance divide between AEC firms that are mature in their…
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From Bids to Build: How Contractors Can Win with BIM
I recently spoke with the CEO of a mechanical contractor and asked whether their installation teams are already using BIM models. “Every day,” he responded. “They want to check the placement of ducts and other components on a 3D model before starting the installation.” That’s just one example of how Building Information Modeling impacts construction…