Model Estimating for Sage Timberline Office lets you nail your estimate down to the last nut and bolt. The result is a remarkably precise conceptual estimate, because the assumptions you make about a project are backed up by details. Costs, quantities, crews, hours, waste factors—everything you need to support your estimate is there in black and white.

Building an estimate model is easy. You determine the complexity or level of detail. Then to run the model, simply take what you know about a project, and answer a series of conceptual questions, making the same assumptions you always do. Your model does the rest of the work by using construction methods, costs and production rates directly from your database. Overnight estimates? No problem. On-the-spot estimates? That can be done, too. You can even use Model Estimating for fast track projects. The model lets you complete estimate details in the design phase before finalizing the entire estimate. And you can make estimate changes in later phases without affecting earlier work.

A lot of things can happen to a building design once you’ve handed over the first estimate. A brick exterior can change to stucco. Rooms can expand or contract. The building can move to a new site. The number of changes can be mind-boggling, and costly if you don’t keep track of them. With Model Estimating, you can easily modify and monitor your estimate as changes are made to the design. So you know exactly how those changes impact your estimate, before they add up to a budget problem.

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