Product Description

Excel is one of the most powerful tools any home builder can use. This books gives you step-by-step instructions on how to create a fully customized estimating program and improve the accuracy of your estimates. With easy to understand examples, screen shots and a tutorial CD-ROM you will be able to create estimates you can rely on for your most important management decisions. Use Excel to make your estimating faster, more accurate, and more organized.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #763454 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 138 pages

About the Author
Jay P. Christofferson is the chairperson of the Construction Management program at Brigham Young University and is a licensed general contractor. He is also the author of NAHB’s best-selling Estimating With Microsoft® Excel: Unlocking the Power for Home Builders.

Customer Reviews

I thought it was very good
After reading, and practicing with this book, I have built a database where I can change prices to reflect the current market, and estimate jobs quickly and efficiently. There is a lot of information on how to set this up in Excel. Now I don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on an estimating program. This book assumes you are familiar with construction, but unfamiliar with microsoft excel. This book will save you time and money in the long run.

A great tool for the private construction contractor
This book is a great tool, it has helped me alot with my estimating projects, the book is quick and easy to apply. its much more economical than getting a sophisticated estimating software.
This book would be complete if it had an example applied to a certain project in each chapter. other than that its great.

Israel Montilla P. MPM.
Construction Project Manager
PROCON Consultants & Associates

Save your money for something better
This is a book only 138 pages. From the beginning to end, all he does was to show off his Excel tricks. Virtually nothing for construction or estimating. If you want to know how to do this or that in Excel, why not "google" up some tips? (Online tips are always free)I purchased it, finished the book within a few hours, and came out with nothing. It came with a CD, but the purpose was to promote the author's estimating software, which is based on Excel but asking for $500. This is not cool...This book is not worth $35 I paid for. I heard from a friend that DeWalt Estimating series is adding a new book on spreadsheet estimating. I like their books better. Would look forward to new book and compare. But I really doubt any other book will be worse than this one...