Estimator
Estimation Excellence for
Projects that Matter
Estimators bring precision to planning, using meticulous analysis and industry knowledge to shape accurate project cost estimations. Utilize your skills in this role to provide the financial bedrock that underpins every successful construction endeavour.
Alternative Titles: Cost Analyst, Estimation Specialist, Pricing Expert
Top 5 courses for Estimators
We get it – training can be hard to commit to when you're in the middle of a big project or busy construction season. These are our top 5 courses for you. Want to see the full suite of courses that apply to you? Keep scrolling to check out the full list.
Business Ethics in Home Building
Develop an understanding of ethical behaviour and how it relates to your workplace and on the site.
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Communication and Negotiation
Learn how to manage difficult conversations and create inclusive and interest-based resolutions used by experienced negotiators across all industries.
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Building Codes (National Building Code 2019 Alberta Edition)
Learn how to interpret and apply current national and Alberta building codes to housing construction projects.
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Construction Fundamentals (RCSM 1)
Explore the relationships between various phases of construction, examine standard documents and processes that govern construction practices, and develop a sound understanding of key considerations at each stage.
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New Energy Code – Section 9.36 (Seminar)
Explore new energy codes, including effective insulation, prescriptive-based requirements, simple trade-off, performance-based requirements, continuous insulation, air tightness, service water (DHW), and unintended consequences of energy.
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Develop an understanding of ethical behaviour and how it relates to your workplace and on the site. Learn strategies to identify and effectively resolve ethical issues while adhering to your personal and corporate values and codes of conduct.
Learn how to manage difficult conversations and create inclusive and interest-based resolutions used by experienced negotiators across all industries. In this course, you will successfully develop the necessary communication strategies to identify barriers, adapt to navigating dirty tricks introduced in a negotiation, and differentiate between judging, assuming and describing statements.
Learn how to interpret and apply current national and Alberta building codes to housing construction projects. You’ll explore related standards and legislative authorities as well as administration and municipal inspection processes.
Explore the relationships between various phases of construction, examine standard documents and processes that govern construction practices, and develop a sound understanding of key considerations at each stage. You’ll review processes, materials, systems, and methods used in constructing residential homes and touches on major aspects of managing the residential construction process, including pre-construction preparation, professionalism, safety, project management, administration, documentation, and construction knowledge.
Explore new energy codes, including effective insulation, prescriptive based requirements, simple trade off, performance-based requirements, continuous insulation, air tightness, service water (DHW), and unintended consequences of energy.
Develop a fundamental understanding of residential construction estimating for single-family homes. Learn to conduct research and how to interpret construction plans, including work and materials required, to cost projects, and how to manage subcontracts.
The goals for the Pan-Canadian Framework will affect homebuilders and homeowners. This course will help you understand how the upcoming code changes will challenge the way we plan and build our houses. Learn about energy efficiency, airtightness testing, and affordable approaches to building high-performance homes.
Learn how to identify soil conditions that necessitate changes to a home construction project plan to avoid potentially disastrous and expensive issues. Expand your understanding of developer reports, logs, and assessments to make informed discussions with geotechnical engineers and prepare you to implement the appropriate construction techniques.
Explore building science and its importance in constructing effective building envelopes and building durable homes. This course was reflects new codes and current best practices while providing additional clarification to key concepts and applications.
Moisture control is a critical part of building construction because moisture problems create significant problems that homebuilders have to deal with. However, always keeping a building envelope completely dry and in all circumstances is unrealistic. This course focuses on explaining moisture and why it’s so important to control it, how it enters a building, how it accumulates, and how it is removed. Remember, moisture control is a critical part of the construction process, and it is up to you to ensure you understand the concepts that make moisture control possible.
Explore basic orthographic concepts and methods, and apply them to plans for single and multi-family housing projects. Deepen your familiarity with different types of drawings and their various levels of detail; sharpen your understanding of symbols, drawing styles, specifications and notes; and learn to organize drawings into complete, appropriate sets of plans.
Develop an appreciation for the value of exceptional service. You’ll learn how to set, improve, and sustain customer value in the organization, develop powerful techniques for understanding customer perspectives, and creating long-term business relationships.
This course recognizes the universal importance and impact of the subject matter of customer service. In doing so, it focuses on our industry, the New Home Construction Industry, and more specifically, it does so from the homeowner’s perspective with respect to customer service expectations at each major stage of the new home building process. Its objective is to educate home builders on the essential business tool that is customer service, and to hone and strengthen this skill so that it will result in greater business success.
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