AI Is Replacing Manual Estimating Workflows: Are GCs & Subs Ready to Win?
Time: 11:20 am
day: Day Two - Track 6 (General ...)
Details:
- The Bottleneck Everyone Shares: Why both GCs and Subs lose valuable time to manual takeoffs and how it creates delays, inconsistencies, and missed bid opportunities on both sides.
- Manual Estimating Workflows Are Dying: By 2030, most manual estimating tasks, like searching bid invites across portals or tracing quantities in click-heavy software, will be obsolete. Teams adopting AI now are future-proofing their workflows.
- AI = Bid Cycle Acceleration: See how automated takeoffs cut down bid prep time, allowing subcontractors to respond faster and GCs to finalize bids with fewer gaps and delays.
- From Reactive to Strategic: With takeoffs off their plate, estimators can now focus on value-engineering, vendor negotiation, and refining estimates, leading to stronger, more competitive bids
