Hey Everybody! Welcome to Construction Contractors Hub. The best place to learn construction management for free. First thing! Introduce yourself and your goals by commenting below. Next, watch this video: https://www.loom.com/share/9bc96fac3d9b48c89c43eb57d5fd43d1 How Contractors Hub works 1. The classroom has a bunch of free courses templates and resources. Here are the most popular ones: Construction Project Management - Our foundational 8 hour course on the absolute basics of project management. Quantity take-offs - Tutorials and practice projects to master take-offs Templates - Over 50 excel and other templatse I use on my projects. AI in Construction - A full series of tutorials and resources to help you get started 2. Win by contributing Each month, the top contributor gets free access to Contractors Hub Premium and ContractorOS (our AI in construction roadmap). All you need to do is contribute and support others 3. Anything you need - let me know If you are looking for templates or other resources, just comment below, and I'll help you find them.

I’ve seen $200m+ projects run on Excel. And it works Hey everybody, I’ve been ignoring my email newsletter, and I wanted to put some time and effort into restructuring and improving it. It had become secondary to my YouTube videos. So I’ve decided to give it a big reboot. Each week I want to deliver three things: 1. News - keep you up to date with the latest developments in AI and construction 2. Inform - share some insightful stat, insight or study that changes the way you think 3. Work - deliver one perspective, process or demonstration that improves the way you work I have two goals for this: 1. Encourage people to use the massive amount of free resources in Contractors Hub. I’ve added tons of sample projects, tutorials, templates, guidebooks, and I’d love to encourage people to use it. 2. Build a newsletter that distils everything I’m learning I'll try to keep everything very short and to the point. Obviously, if you don’t want to receive them, just click unsubscribe below And if you want to comment or follow the discussion, you can comment along on the accompanying post each week: News: What happened this week 1. Lots of new models (as always). Sonnet 5.5 appears to be the standout. Topping our drawing analysis and take-off benchmark, and it’s really cheap to run. Seems like a great model. 2. ChatGPT Dots dropped. From my testing, it is a worse version of GrokBot. GrokBot is great btw; I have been using it every day. 3. A construction contractor’s AI roll-out exposed huge document-control problems. The biggest challenge to the roll-out was conflicting file names, duplicate documents and unclear revisions. I have had the exact same experience experimenting with ChatGPT/Claude co-work. File names and folder structures matter. Quite an interesting article: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/ai-doesnt-fix-data-problem-construction-need-unified-language/831774/

Hi everybody, thanks for having me here Well I have been doing quantity take-offs for windows and doors only for 5 years , for some reason I couldn't get out of that and for some reason I had to stay in that bubble, but now I really wanna grow and broaden my skill set into doing take-offs and BOQs for a whole project residential and commercial. My long-term goal is to secure high-tier international remote positions or relocate abroad, with a primary focus on the Australian construction market (AIQS standards). I need your guidance for that to know what should I do and how to start. And thanks in advance

AI can save time throughout the take-off process, even when you do the measuring yourself. This is how I would build it into your workflow: Start with a standard assembly library. Define what you measure and how that quantity translates into materials, labour and plant. Decide where the quantities need to end up. Have your estimating workbook or procurement template ready. This will determine the output format. Use AI to organise the drawings and adapt your assemblies to the project's legends and specifications. Check its assumptions. Measure the primary quantities, then use AI to transfer the checked results into your estimate, procurement schedules or indicative programme. Save the repeated steps as skills so you can reuse the process on the next job. For lump-sum pricing, I would still measure and check the quantities myself. Approximate AI take-offs can help with budgets and cross-checking, provided you understand their limitations. If you use AI to measure, check the drawing scale and orientation, compare results against known dimensions, and get it to show uncertain areas for you to confirm. Full walk-through below In the video I'm using ZZTakeoff: https://www.zztakeoff.com?p=23761

Hi everybody. My interest are more on construction cost estimation. Are there any AI innovations in that regard?