Estimating

Since our inception, Estimating has been one of our core services.  CB&A can provide quality Estimating services because or our multi-disciplined staff of experienced professionals.  The average CB&A estimating professional has over 17 years of  experience.  Our estimating professionals have developed and compiled all classes of estimates:  Order Of Magnitude, Preliminary, Budget Appropriation, Re-Estimates, and Definitive.  Range of total project estimates have been from $10,000 - $1,000,000,000.  CB&A has been involved with estimates associated in multiple industries:  Auto, Bio-Fuels, Cement & Lime, Chemical, Energy (Co-Gen, Fossil, & Nuclear), Food Processing, Metals & Alloys, Pharmaceuticals, Pulp & Paper, Tire & Rubber, and Water/Waste Water Treatment facilities.  Project Scopes have included Process Equipment, Process Piping, Process Instrumentation & Controls, Electrical Distribution, Process Buildings, Control Buildings, Administration Buildings, Utilities, Warehouses, Plumbing, HVAC, Site Work, Foundations, Structural Steel, and Site Security Systems. Accurate and timely estimates are essential in today’s tight funding environment and are the starting basis for a successful project management program.  CB&A has been successful at providing accurate and timely estimates because we know what things cost.  CB&A is continually obtaining commodity quotes from suppliers and labor/subcontract cost from vendors.  CB&A is also obtaining actual equipment, commodity, labor, and subcontract cost from actual projects tracked by our Cost Analyst.  CB&A also uses this actual project information to adjust productivity factors.  The following is a summary of our estimating capabilities: