Electrical Estimating Cost Data – Competing with the Big Boys

My career spans over forty years in the electrical business.  After a four year stint in the United States Coast Guard where I studied electrical design,  I worked with the “tools” for the next seven years. During that time I attended SMU evenings and earned a degree in Management Science with an Economics minor.
 

This coupled with a Journeyman electrical license and a family history in the electrical business dating back to my Grandfather's 1906 "ticket to perform electrical work”, prompted me to enter into the challenging world of electrical estimating, productivity analysis and computers.
 

There could have been no better entrance into the corporate world for a young man than the innovative Texas Instruments Co. Inc. of Dallas Texas. During my long and rewarding career with the Facilities division it was my job as US coordinator for estimating and productivity to develop new and innovative methods to estimate measure and improve craft productivity on all construction projects ranging from small fitups to large manufacturing facilities.

The knowledge gained by this ten year study of millions of craft hours at Texas Instruments and the 30% increase in craft productivity did not go unnoticed by R.S. Means Co. Inc.  As a result of these accomplishments, I was hired by R.S. Means Co. Inc. in 1984 to write a standalone electrical cost data publication.  This publication became an industry standard and I continued to maintain this publication on a consulting basis for many years after.

When I launched the e-Cost Estimating and consulting firm twenty five years ago my main focus was to build a data base second to none based on real data.

The information contained in this book is a compilation of my forty years of experience combined with years of collective statistics, sources and knowledge gained by tracking millions of hours of craft productivity.
I have spent most of my adult life in the hard dollar world of competitive bidding, tracking, documenting, analyzing, and adjusting while learning more and more about why things happen and how to adjust data accordingly.

The result of these findings was the development of a data base arsenal of over thirty thousand unit and assembly costs.  After this twelve year effort the data has been included in my publication along with reference material I have compiled or found valuable over the years.
I have written other cost books for other people, but this book, I truly believe, is now the best in the industry.

 Restricted by deadlines, budgets and philosophical differences, until now I have never been able to publish the book that I truly believed was the best in the industry.
It is my hope that you will compare e-Cost’s Electrical Unit & Assembly Cost Data 2011 to your current estimating publication.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

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Al Sauerbier, President
e-Cost Electrical Estimating & Publishing Co. Inc

Mike Holt's Comment: Good luck with your product Al, and I hope this newsletter helps get the word out.