Construction Estimating and Project Controls Fundamentals

What you will learn

• Quantity take-off and unit-rate build-up: labour, plant, materials and overheads, with worked examples checked by code
• Schedules: activities, logic, critical path, baseline and progress updates
• Cost control: budgets, commitments, earned value (CPI and SPI) and forecasts at completion
• Change orders, variations and claims: what to record, when and how
• Using AI to draft estimates, reports and letters, and how to catch invented quantities, dates and commitments before they leave your desk
• Scenario questions written from real job tasks, an online final assessment and a certificate of completion

For: Site engineers, quantity surveyors, planners and junior project managers on building and infrastructure projects.

Who stands behind this course

• Editor and publisher: C. Kuyumcu, founder of AI Work School, background in energy and construction.
• Written from: the tasks employers list in current estimator and project controls job postings.
• Field review: Material is reviewed by people who do this work before the course opens; their names are published here when they sign off.