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Logan City Council and the
Fundamentals of Estimating Workshop
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Benchmark's
Fundamentals of Estimating Workshop |
Traditionally,
teaching your staff how to estimate has been an on-the-job
exercise. Sometimes people are taught to operate a system, but
not actually how to estimate properly. Rob MacDonald,
Director of Benchmark Estimating Software states “This can
lead to common problems which we hear about all the time;
individuals end up doing their own thing, reinventing the wheel
or sometimes making up numbers because they have not been taught
the correct approach - ultimately the result is incorrect and
inconsistent estimates!”
The Fundamentals of Estimating Workshop was developed as a
solution to this problem. Rob says “The Workshop is designed
to teach people how to estimate, the different types of
estimates they can perform and the correct techniques they
should use. We have run this workshop many times now and it is
great to see Logan City Council take the initiative and organise
a workshop for their staff and surrounding Councils.”
Rodd O’Grady
is the Works Business Manager at Logan City Council and was the
key driver behind the Fundamentals of Estimating Workshop held
in Logan. Rodd says the driving factor behind the workshop was
that “our branch has recently been developing our
resource-based estimating processes, and the workshop was seen
as the next stage in the implementation of our estimating
systems. As we have a number of people potentially involved in
the estimating process it is important we adopt a consistent
approach, using current industry practices”.
The Fundamentals of Estimating Workshop at Logan City
Council provided several benefits for the individual
participant, including the considerable advantages of having
multiple Councils in attendance. Bruce Baron,
Coordinator Storm Water Design at Gold Coast City Council, says
“the workshop provided me with leading edge estimating
practices to apply to my own work, and with the opportunity to
share experiences and create a bond with people from other
Councils.” Don Que, Technical Officer at Caboolture
Shire Council, said “I wanted to get some useful tips and
shortcuts from people who estimate all the time and the course
certainly provided me with these. It was also great to see how
different Councils run their estimating processes and how they
capture their field data.”
If your public works organisation needs to standardise its
estimating practices and provide staff with the skills and
knowledge for successful estimating, get in contact with
Benchmark to find out how you can benefit from a Fundamentals of
Estimating Workshop.
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Logan City Council
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