Estimating and Bidding for Builders and Remodelers, 5th Edition

Here's a book that covers the construction estimating and bidding process planning your estimate, adjusting your markup and adding it to your bid, reviewing the plans for hidden costs, recording job costs, compiling and checking an estimate, applying unit costs, the take-off process, calculating overhead, estimating repair and remodeling work and estimating commercial work.

Explains how to estimate with a computer and includes a CD-ROM with the database of 50,000 construction items from the National Construction Estimator and the National Home Improvement Estimator.

Also included on the CD is a program that exports your estimates into QuickBooks Pro for job costing, and an interactive tutorial.