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This 4-hour virtual workshop on Construction Estimating Principles and Application equips estimators with advanced tools and strategies for competitive bidding. It includes interactive discussions on cost analysis, risk management, and project flexibility, led by experienced professionals, and focuses on leveraging technology like Bluebeam Revu to enhance accuracy and efficiency.

Learning Objectives:

• Cost/Price analysis
• Pricing project constraints
• How to build flexibility into your system
• Optimum time to complete
• Escalation Managing risk within the estimate
• Danger zones to avoid.

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Our Most Requested Course! Blueprint Reading. Sign up now.

All construction professionals, regardless of working in the field or in the office, must know how to read blueprints, specs, and construction plans.

This 6-hour, two-day online course (January 15–16, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM MST) is tailored for entry-level professionals in architecture, engineering, construction, or those transitioning careers.

The program introduces participants to the fundamentals of reading and understanding construction documents, including title blocks, specifications, and project navigation. Ideal for new designers, tradespersons, project managers, and estimators, this course provides essential knowledge to understand material and construction requirements.

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Attendees will learn interface navigation including menu dropdowns, toolbars, various tool panels, keyboard shortcuts and a few recommended settings. While learning various markup and measurement tools, several tips & tricks will be shared to increase speed and accuracy.

Learning Objectives:

• Interface Navigation
• Calibration & Measurements
• Introduction to the Markups List

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With Revu’s intuitive measurement tools and customizable interface, we can turn your highlighters into a data rich takeoff tools.

We’ll start out going through the standard measurement tools and settings, then move into various customization options and discuss the results in the Markups List.

*MANDATORY PRE-REQUIITE: Student(s) must have taken Baseline Basics to enroll in this course.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduction to Viewports
• Measurement Tips & Tricks
• Custom Estimating Tools

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Did you know you can export to an Excel spreadsheet, or even link directly to that Excel template file full of formulas you’ve been using for years?

After finishing the Bluebeam Takeoffs & Estimates (Basics) course, we’ll move into creating custom columns, embedding formulas, and information organization.

*MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITES: Bluebeam 1: Baseline Basics & Bluebeam 2: Material Takeoffs & Estimates (Basics)

Learning Objectives:

• Custom Estimating Tools - continued from Material Takeoffs & Estimates (Basics)
• Collecting Rich Data with Custom Columns
• Reports and Exporting Data

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Are your drawings or those from your customers a mess? Gibberish in the Page Labels, no hyperlinks, sheets out of order all combined into one bloated document? In this class you’ll learn a quick workflow to fixing all those pain points and more.

Things like automatically finding and clouding changes on revised sheets and tracking the most current version of each sheet. Improve consistency and accuracy in document management, & eliminate all the time wasted navigating through drawing sets & wondering who has the latest drawings.

*MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITE: Bluebeam 1: Baseline Basics

Learning Objectives:

• Creating Hyperlinks to Quickly Navigate Drawings
• Manage Revisions with Batch Slip Sheet
• Find Drawing Changes Automatically

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Learn to create and place custom punch symbols, quickly embed images or videos, and create summary reports.

Whether your tracking install progress or running a QA/QC final walk, this class was developed for design and construction professionals in both the office and jobsite looking for ways to build consistency, speed and accuracy of data collection.

*MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITE: Bluebeam 1: Baseline Basics

Learning Objectives:

• Create and place punch symbols to denote status or deficiencies.
• Embed field images or videos to clearly show site conditions.
• Generate reports integrated directly with document markups.
• See industry examples from your competitors.

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Administrative teams have unique document workflows that demand a different set of tools compared to design and construction teams.

A typical Bluebeam class concentrates on design markups, estimating and collecting field data, but this class is very different! In just two hours you’ll be ready to combine documents, mark for redaction, apply digital signatures and several other important administrative tasks.

Learning Objectives:

• Extracting pages from existing documents
• Use Redaction to quickly clean sensitive information from documents
• Creating and applying digital signatures
• Updating Page Labels
• Applying headers and footers
• Search document text and visual symbols
• Apply stamps
• Flag important content in documents

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Yes, there are tools in Bluebeam Revu for Civil Designers and Engineers!

In this class we will go through not only navigation and markups but workflows like Calibrating Plan & Profile drawings with different X-Y scales, ideas for Cut & Fill calculations, combining several PDF’s into one large area map, and adding images. We’ll also look at ideas for bidding and tracking field survey projects. 

Learning Objectives:

• Calibrating X,Y Scales
• Adding Images
• Creating large area maps
• Ideas for Cut/Fill Calculations
• Ideas for Bidding & Tracking Survey Projects

Event Details

This 4-hour virtual workshop on Construction Estimating Principles and Application equips estimators with advanced tools and strategies for competitive bidding. It includes interactive discussions on cost analysis, risk management, and project flexibility, led by experienced professionals, and focuses on leveraging technology like Bluebeam Revu to enhance accuracy and efficiency.

Learning Objectives:

• Cost/Price analysis
• Pricing project constraints
• How to build flexibility into your system
• Optimum time to complete
• Escalation Managing risk within the estimate
• Danger zones to avoid.

Event Details

Our Most Requested Course! Blueprint Reading. Sign up now.

All construction professionals, regardless of working in the field or in the office, must know how to read blueprints, specs, and construction plans.

This 6-hour, two-day online course (April 16 & 17, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM MST) is tailored for entry-level professionals in architecture, engineering, construction, or those transitioning careers.

The program introduces participants to the fundamentals of reading and understanding construction documents, including title blocks, specifications, and project navigation. Ideal for new designers, tradespersons, project managers, and estimators, this course provides essential knowledge to understand material and construction requirements.

Event Details

Attendees will learn interface navigation including menu dropdowns, toolbars, various tool panels, keyboard shortcuts and a few recommended settings. While learning various markup and measurement tools, several tips & tricks will be shared to increase speed and accuracy.

Learning Objectives:

• Interface Navigation
• Calibration & Measurements
• Introduction to the Markups List

Event Details

With Revu’s intuitive measurement tools and customizable interface, we can turn your highlighters into a data rich takeoff tools.

We’ll start out going through the standard measurement tools and settings, then move into various customization options and discuss the results in the Markups List.

*MANDATORY PRE-REQUIITE: Student(s) must have taken Baseline Basics to enroll in this course.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduction to Viewports
• Measurement Tips & Tricks
• Custom Estimating Tools

Event Details

Did you know you can export to an Excel spreadsheet, or even link directly to that Excel template file full of formulas you’ve been using for years?

After finishing the Bluebeam Takeoffs & Estimates (Basics) course, we’ll move into creating custom columns, embedding formulas, and information organization.

*MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITES: Bluebeam 1: Baseline Basics & Bluebeam 2: Material Takeoffs & Estimates (Basics)

Learning Objectives:

• Custom Estimating Tools - continued from Material Takeoffs & Estimates (Basics)
• Collecting Rich Data with Custom Columns
• Reports and Exporting Data