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Empowering people with the building blocks to obtaining building estimation knowledge!

To enhance your building estimation knowledge, the PPiS skills workshop is an active way to start.

What Is PPIS Skills Workshop?

“What is the PPIS Estimating Skills Workshop about? Who should attend?”

It is an unfortunate fact that a lot of building projects, specifically in the less formal (residential) sector, go horribly wrong because of inadequately calculated costs.

Estimating Systems and Procedures is the first in a two-part series intended specifically for building contractors, both new and existing, and persons other than professional quantity surveyors involved in building cost estimating.
This workshop introduces the delegate to building cost estimating by exploring estimating and measuring systems and how they are created, as well as taking a look at the building landscape and common risk factors that may influence the cost of a project.
It takes a sneak preview at the second part of the series (The A-Z of Building cost Resources) before it culminates in a live session where an estimating sheet is created from a set of plans provided.

In short, this workshop equips delegates with the tools and skills needed to identify cost elements in any building and thereby creating the best possible environment to accurately price and as a result, manage, a project to a profitable conclusion for both client and contractor.

Please join us in a non-formal and relaxed environment and let us start estimating for better control!

What The Course Covers

“How is the Estimating Systems and Procedures Workshop structured?”

ESTIMATING SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES WORKSHOP CONTENT
1 - Introduction
-Workshop outcomes
-Define Estimating

2 - Tenders and Sources of Pricing Information
-Tender types
-Sources of Pricing Information (2 sections)

Section 1: Bills of Quantities > "What is a Bill of Quantities?" > "Why use Bills of Quantities?" > "Pricing Bills of Quantities" > "Terminology and abbreviations"
Section 2: Drawing > "About Drawings" > "Drawing Symbols"

3 - Measuring (Quantifying) Work
-The metric system, measurement units and converting units
-Taking of quantities using the Builders Quantities and Elemental methods

4 - Building Rates (discussion topic)
-The building/construction landscape
-Factors influencing a price (risk)
-Taking of Quantities using Elemental method
-Resources: Materials/Equipment/Labour/Profit/Overheads

5 - Live Exercise
-Do Take-off from drawings provided
-Q & A, as well as a summary

Annex (Voluntary – Not Part of curriculum)
-Demonstration/Introduction to PPIS products

DURATION, VENUE, COST and WORKSHOP MATERIAL
Half day workshop intended to run for between 4 -6 hours, depending on the size of the group etc. Starting time will be confirmed upon booking.
Workshop is hosted once monthly in Pretoria, Somerset West and Durban.
Any other venue can be accommodated subject to a minimum attendance of 5 or more delegates.
Tea, coffee and water with biscuits served throughout the duration of the workshop.

Cost per delegate R900.00 incl. VAT.
Course notes and drawings are provided, but please bring own calculator.

ABOUT the FACILITATOR
Jaco Maré has spent his entire working life in and around the building industry.

After completing a National Diploma (Building) and BTech (Construction Management) at the former Technikon Pretoria (now T.U.T), and with a number of years on-site experience behind him, he joined one of the oldest computerised estimating companies in the country and started specialising in providing the industry with computerised building estimating programs and data, for the past 14years.

He is engaged in the role of technical advisor and software trainer to the Billcost, Merkel’s and Costabill brands.

Pricing And Booking

PRICING

Training fee: R900 per person (VAT incl.) for the 4-6 hour training workshop.

LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE, so please enquire as to when the next workshop will be taking place.

BOOK NOW

Please click on "BOOK NOW" and fill in the provided Email form to lodge a booking request for the PPiS skills workshop.

Please contact us directly for more information or assistance.

PPIS ESTIMATING SKILLS WORKSHOPS 2012:
*For further information (times & venue details) & bookings please contact us
*Booking MUST please be paid for and confirmed 14 days before training date.

2012 Dates:

29 February: Pretoria

14 March: Somerset West
15 March: Durban
28 March: Pretoria

11 April: Somerset West
12 April: Durban
25 April: Pretoria

09 May: Somerset West
10 May: Durban
30 May: Pretoria

06 June: Somerset West
07 June: Durban
27 June: Pretoria

R900 per person (VAT incl.)

Support

Contact Details

Phone number:
+27 (0)21 852 1532 / 086 11 11 273
Fax number:
+27 (0)21 851 3432 / 086 11 13 679
Email:
admin@merkels.co.za
Physical address:
2nd Floor
Trident Park 3
No.1 Niblick Way
Somerset Mall
Somerset West
7130
Postal address:
P O Box 9
Somerset Mall
7137

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