Moving to Commercial Construction offers residential general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and/or designers a practical guide to making the complicated but rewarding move to commercial construction. It takes readers step-by-step through the process of setting up a successful commercial company, with special emphasis on the intricacies of commercial estimating and bidding, value engineering, maintaining a profitable jobsite, keeping a stable work force, developing and maintaining successful business relationships and business promotion. There's also a chapter on the design/build and partnering business concepts and their advantage over the competitive bid process. Includes a CD-ROM that contains (i) a 300-page database of cost estimates; (ii) National Estimator, an estimating program; (iii) an interactive tutorial; (iv) Job Cost Wizard, software to convert estimates into invoices and export to QuickBooks Pro; (v) blank copies of the forms in the book formatted for Windows and Mac.
Softcover.
