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CERT ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2023 – CHANDLER ARIZONA

Dear CERT member,
Our 2023 CERT conference will be held at the historic Crowne Plaza Chandler Golf Resort in Chandler, Arizona, Wednesday and Thursday September 20 and 21, 2023.
Join your fellow estimating consultants in Chandler for a two day-long conference. We have a great line up of speakers (see above) and topics this year so I hope that you can join us! As per last year CERT will offer a virtual option again.
Thank you to our allied association partner ASPE for welcoming CERT as part of their overall 2023 annual Summit. To find out about sponsorship opportunities, contact Josh Huck by email at josh@estimaticainc.com
You can register for the event via PayPal at https://www.certusa.org/cert-payment-portal/

Reserve hotel :
Make your reservation now online, or by calling the reservation center at 1-877-685-5594 and reference block code Z7A to receive the discounted nightly rate of $159 plus taxes and fees.
https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/chandler/phxqq/hoteldetail?fromRedirect=true&qSrt=sBR&qIta=99801505&icdv=99801505&qSlH=PHXQQ&qGrpCd=Z7A&setPMCookies=true&qSHBrC=CP&qDest=One+San+Marcos+Place%2C+Chandler%2C+AZ%2C+US&srb_u=1

Side Partnership LLC

SIDE Partnership, LLC began in 2019 with the goal to provide high quality cost estimating services. Since opening our doors, we have worked solely from word-of-mouth referrals and repeat customers. We are a woman-owned small business located near Chattanooga, TN.

Our main areas of expertise include projects within the Nuclear power, Department of Energy, and Commercial construction industries.

Banning Stackhttps://www.sidepartnership.com/423-779-8586

Computerized Estimating Services (CES)

Business Profile

Computerized Estimating Services (CES) is a privately held HUB certified woman-owned firm established in 1985. We have two locations one in Peoria, Illinois, and the other in Dallas, Texas. We perform commercial construction cost estimating, & scheduling services throughout the United States for Architects, Governmental Entities, Owners, Developers, Banks, Bonding Companies, Insurance Companies, and General Contractors.

CES operates their business with attention to detail and values teamwork on all projects.

Computerized Estimating Services (CES) employees at both the Texas and Illinois locations ready to be of service and meet all of your cost consulting needs.

Estimating Methodology

Computerized Estimating Services (CES) will meet with the Client and their design team to review the scope of work for each discipline.

CES will visit the proposed site after the design meeting and before beginning the Schematic Design Estimate (taking digital pictures). During this site visit, CES will make notes of any special needs such as power, utilities, grading, storm drainage, traffic flow, and signs of any existing above and below the grade structures that may need to be removed. These conditions will be researched with the design team and reflected in the estimate.

The estimates will be in the CSI format at each of the different design stages of the project using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The estimates include the summary sheet, exclusions, and clarifications, itemized list of general conditions, and the associated pricing sheets. These estimates will be emailed as a draft copy to the Client for review. Any mutually agreed changes to the estimate will be made as the final estimate for each design stage and re-emailed to the Client’s office for distribution.

During the course of the estimating procedures, any questions of the scope of work will be emailed to the Client’s office as the single source of responsibility. The responses to the questions from the design team will be incorporated into the estimate.

The pricing used in the estimate will reflect the local and current market conditions with a separate escalation factor if deemed necessary for the projected starting date. The pricing will not carry any hidden contingencies. The estimate will have a separately exposed line for design contingency on the summary sheet. The amount of the design contingency will reduce as the project progresses to completion. The summary sheets after the initial Schematic Design Estimate will have two additional separate columns entitled Previous Estimate and the second column entitled Difference so the changes in the estimate can be tracked.

CES will work together as a part of the design team to bring the project to successful completion.

A listing of specific projects will be submitted upon request or refer to our Website at www.cescost.net (Texas), www.ces-team.com (Illinois) for a partial list of projects. If CES can be of any help, please do not hesitate to call at 309-981-9285

Daniel Blanchard, Vice Presidenthttps://www.cescostconsulting.com/danielblanchard@ces-team.com 309-981-92852823 VZ County Road 1222
Grand Saline, Texas 75140

CERT ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022 – Marble City

Dear CERT member,
Our summer 2022 CERT conference will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, Wednesday and Thursday June 22 and 23, 2022.
Join your fellow estimating consultants in Knoxville for a two day-long conference. This year we have the option to attend in person or virtually. We have a great line up of speakers (see below) and topics this year so I hope that you can join us!
Thank you to our allied association partner ASPE for welcoming CERT as part of their overall 2022 annual Summit. To find out about sponsorship opportunities, contact Josh Huck by email at josh@estimaticainc.com
You can register for the event via PayPal at https://www.certusa.org/cert-payment-portal/

Reserve hotel :
Online: https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/knoxville/tyssh/hoteldetail?fromRedirect=true&qSrt=sBR&qIta=99801505&icdv=99801505&qSlH=TYSSH&qGrpCd=EST&setPMCookies=true&qSHBrC=CP&qDest=401%20West%20Summit%20Hill%20Drive,%20Knoxville,%20TN,%20US&srb_u=1

SCHEDULE
DAY 1- JUNE 22, 2022 (all times below are ET time zone)
8-8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30-10 Division 8 Fundamentals- Doors/Frames/Hardware
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Concrete Estimating Fundamentals
11:30-1:00 Lunch (offsite)
1:00-2:00 Estimators Role in Construction Defect Litigation
2:00-3:30 Social Media and Branding for Consultants
3:30:3:45 Break
3:45- 5:00 Best Practice Manual Live Update
DAY 2- JUNE 23, 2022
8:00-8:30 Registration/Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Geotechnical Reports & Estimating
10:10:15 Break
10:15- 11:30 Estimating Nuclear & Other Challenging Projects
11:30-1:00 Lunch (offsite)
1:00-2:00 Negotiating the Economy for the Estimating Advantage and Better Client Understanding
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15- 5:00 Live Best Practice Call- Open Topic

Best Practice Call – October 14th 1PM EST

Retaining the Right Clients and Procuring the Best Ones – Date: October 14th 2021- 1pm EST

This will be an open discussion on lessons learned from bad clients/great clients and what we do to ditch, keep and find them. The call will be 45 minutes on this topic with the last 15 minutes left for open discussion.

Contact Josh Huck for Zoom Meeting ID and password.

Host: Josh Huck
josh@estimaticainc.com
estimaticainc.com

Larry Hendrick Consulting

Preconstruction Services, Estimating, Cost Management and Consulting Services
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” By H. James Harrington
Larry Hendrick Consulting has over 40 years’ combined experience providing estimating and bidding and value management for all kinds of construction projects including:

• Healthcare Projects
• K-12, College and University Education Projects
• Entertainment Projects
• City/County and Government Projects
• Non-Profit Projects
• High Rise Residential
• Hospitability Projects
• Commercial Projects
• Science and Technology Projects

The services offered are:
• Cost Estimating (conceptual, schematic, design development, and construction docs)
• Preconstruction Services Proposal Writing
• Plan Take-offs and Quantity Survey
• Constructability Review
• Value Engineering
• Project Budget Presentation and Analysis
• Change Order Costing Verification
• Defects Analysis and Reports
• Expert Witness Testimony
• Site Investigation and Inspection
In Person and/or Virtual Training:
o Conceptual and Hard Bid Estimating
o Quantity Take-offs
o Value Engineering
o General Conditions/General Requirements
o Preconstruction Services

Principal-Larry Hendrick, DBIA, CPE, LEED APhttps://www.larryhendrickconsulting.com/larry@larryhendrickconsulting.com760-310-9207

Haas Estimating and Consulting

Haas Estimating and Consulting Services offer Pre-Construction Services for Division 2 thru 31 for Commercial and Multifamily Construction.

Hass Estimating will assist Architects, Engineers, Owners, General Contractors, and Subcontractors in their Pre-Construction needs.

Those services include Material Takeoffs, Creation of Estimates, Change order Processing, evaluation of Estimates and Value Engineering.

Haas Estimating also specialize in the Lumber Takeoff for Multifamily and Commercial Construction.

Hass Estimating also offers assistance to Subcontractors and General Contractors on their development of their Estimating from Training of Estimators to offering Consulting on their Estimating Processes.

Frank Haas, CPEhttps://www.haasestimating.com/haasestimating@gmail.com210-314-42507107 Saybrook, San Antonio,
Texas 78215

&estimate a PCS Company

One of our greatest strengths is estimating. &estimate has developed over $30 billion of construction project cost estimates on all types of construction nationally and internationally. As an independent service, we provide in-house architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection estimating to Owners and architectural firms nationally. Our in-house capabilities in estimating are of particular significance when Value Engineering process is undertaken because of our first-hand knowledge on all aspects of the building construction. Accurate and well-defined cost estimates are critical to the success of every project. Our estimators specialize in providing accurate construction cost estimates from the initial programming phase through the detailed design and construction phases. Our estimating procedures are developed to ensure that each element of the project is well defined and accounted for in the estimate.

What We Will Do For You

&estimate offers pre-construction services from the idea moment through completion when the owner is handed the keys. For over thirty years our clients have depended on us to provide the equilibrium between the owner’s budget and the design.

Services we offer:

Owner’s Representation
Probable Cost Estimating
Value Engineering
Building Assessments
Constructability Review
FFE Estimating and Procurement
Scheduling
Life Cycle Costing

Our areas of expertise:

Education, Public and Private
Healthcare
Government
Community/Recreational Centers
Corporate
Performing Arts
Museums
Historical Restoration
Senior Living
Hospitality
Housing
Religious
Non-Profit
Mixed-Use
High Performance/Energy Efficient Construction

Brandon Lawlor, Presidenthttps://www.and-estimate.com/blawlor@and-estimate.com c 216.406.7151
1301 E9 St., #2100
Cleveland, OH 44114