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Getting the Price Right |
Getting the Price Right – MidCoast Water’s
Estimation Improvement Program
MidCoast Water supplies 11 billion litres of water a year to
35,000 households spread over 7000 square kilometres. To
deliver this volume of water to their clients
 MidCoast needs the
infrastructure necessary to carry it across such vast distances;
this can add up to $65 million worth of water and sewerage works
per annum.
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In dealing with such a large budget, MidCoast recognised the
need to: |
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Improve the consistency and accuracy
of their estimating across all project phases,
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Reduce the hours involved in
estimating repetitious tasks, and |
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Build the estimating expertise and
construction knowledge within the organisation. |
To realise these objectives an internal
program titled ‘Getting the Price Right - MidCoast Water’s
Estimating Improvement Program’ was launched.
Improving consistency and accuracy in
estimating
Moving estimating to a robust, capable system is a necessity
when endeavouring to improve estimating consistency and
accuracy. Brendan Guiney, Manager, Development and Planning at
MidCoast, reveals that, “Benchmark’s software was considered the
best fit for our needs in relation to water and sewerage civil
works estimating.” MidCoast is generating increased consistency
and accuracy in estimating through the use of one system for
estimating various tasks across many project phases. Primary
user and Development Engineer David McKeller says, “We are able
to use a range of estimating methods to suit a wide variety of
tasks all within Benchmark. In addition to this, new features
like Power Routines and the Resource-based Export to Microsoft
Project have further enhanced and streamlined our overall
estimating processes.”
Reducing the hours involved in estimating
repetitious tasks
One particular feature in Benchmark Estimating Software called
Routines is ideal for estimating repetitious tasks quickly and
accurately. As Brendan explains, “Routines essentially reduce
the estimating process to answering questions about the
quantities required in the project. Benchmark’s people were
able to identify ways in which Routines could optimise
estimating for our core business of pipelines, as well as for
other water and sewerage tasks.”
 Building the estimating expertise
Benchmark’s implementation and training services ensured the
organisation was much better equipped to handle their estimating
through Benchmark Estimating Software. Additionally, features
such as Routines and the Item Library, which Benchmark also
helped to create, are now full of MidCoast’s business knowledge
which can be deployed and shared across the organisation in a
consistent format.
With the help of Benchmark’s software and implementation,
MidCoast have been able to check off the objectives of the
Estimation Improvement program; they can create accurate,
consistent estimates across various project phases, they have
reduced the hours spent estimating and they have increased the
estimating knowledge of the organisation through training and
through sharing their recently captured information.
Find out more about
MidCoast Water from their website |
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