As a staff writer for Forbes Advisor, SMB, Kristy helps small business owners find the tools they need to keep their businesses running. She uses the experience of managing her own writing and editing ...

Accurate estimates are key to your construction business's success. Learn about the top five construction estimating software ...

Predicting project costs accurately is essential for contractors and construction companies, and it can be made possible using the right estimating software for commercial construction. Such software ...

Estimators have never had it easy in the rough-and-tumble world of construction cost estimating—especially when using traditional 2D files or drawings for quantity takeoffs and cost estimates. More ...

The estimating software development cost remains a complex problem, one that continues to attract a considerable amount of research attention. Improving the accuracy of the cost estimation models ...

Maintaining cost-efficient information technology infrastructure is a key operational task of small and large companies. Frequent survey of a firm's IT infrastructure can help a business avoid ...

NREL releases online tool to estimate pumped hydro storage costs The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a cost-estimation tool for new closed-loop ...

The software is a planning level design and costing tool that allows the user to “drag-and-drop” unit processes to build a wastewater treatment plant schematic, automatically calculate a design and ...

The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) Proposal Development Team has updated the Cost Estimation Tool effective January 12, 2023. Updates to this tool include: Updated Fringe Rates per the rate ...