The newest update to our electrical estimating software, Electrical Bid Manager (EBM) Plus and Pro is here with the highly requested Advanced Substitution feature! With Advanced Substitution, estimators may easily make global replacements on previously entered conduit and wire, or cable takeoff entries. This new feature adds more power to EBM’s long list of audit trail …

Ask any electrical contractor and they will tell you that electrical estimating is an expensive endeavor; many consider it a necessary evil. In the economy we face today, contractors need all the help they can possibly get. It can be difficult to come to the office as an estimator and feel the weight of knowing …

Electrical estimating is all about details. As estimators, we need to get the facts, or the facts will get us. When we are looking for these facts, they need to be right, as the wrong facts will hurt us. The process of checking an electrical estimate for accuracy starts before the bid documents even arrive …

I started D and S Electric in January of 2001. I like to say I started the company with “a pickup truck and a ladder rack” because aside from hand tools, a cordless drill, a ½” bender and my Fluke, I didn’t have much else. There was a niche for me in the residential area …

Contracting in today’s economy is at best a challenge, albeit an important one, as new projects and the cashflow attached to them are the lifeblood that sustains a firm’s existence. Most estimators and contractors mentally evaluate a prospective project before expending the resources needed to complete an electrical estimate. A question that I regularly ask …