Conditions Overview video

 

A Condition is a description of an object such as a wall, ceiling, or a door, etc.  A Condition includes the information about a particular object such as the Materials and Labor necessary to build the object.  Conditions are built for each unique building objects, for example, in a typical building, an estimator may need separate Conditions for various wall heights.  There are three basic types of Conditions: Area (SF, SY, m2, etc.), Linear (LF, LY, mm, mm, etc.), and Count (EA).

 

Building a Condition involves adding Items to a Condition to specify Materials and Labor required to build the Condition.  Building Conditions IS the main portion of pricing a Bid.  If you've taken the time to setup your database defaults and options, almost everything else will automatically be added to the Material and Labor costs you add to your Conditions.

 

Each Condition may be associated with multiple Areas within a project.  For example, a Condition such as "10' Interior Wall" probably occurs on multiple floors within a project.  There is no need to create that Condition multiple times - as long as the height is the same and the Condition is built the same way; simply use the Areas function to assign quantity to different floors.

 

A project may include parts of a building that, taken together, form a "Typical Area" - something such as identical apartment units, hotel suites, townhouses, lobby areas, and rest room/mechanical room combinations.  These Typical Area each include several Conditions (walls, floors, windows, wiring, etc.). Quick Bid's "Typical Areas" feature allows you to assign Condition Quantity to a Typical Area and then specify how many times that Typical Area occurs within each Bid Area.  When properly entered, Quick Bid can break out reports for each typical unit, each floor, each building, or report a grand total for the project. See Typical Areas for more information.

 

The first step after creating a Bid is to create Conditions.  Conditions may be from scratch, by duplicating existing Conditions, and copying and pasting from one Bid to another (or from a base Bid to an Alternate or Change Order).  Each of these options in covered in this section.

Importing a Quantity Survey

You can IMPORT a Quantity Survey that has been formatted specifically for Quick Bid.  See Importing Quantity Survey for more information.  This is ONLY available if you are neither using Quick Bid and On-Screen Takeoff interactively nor have created any Conditions previously in the Bid.

Creating a Condition from Scratch

To create a new Condition,

 

The next few articles explain the Condition Detail screen.  Please review these articles carefully.  It is important to understand how the Condition Details dialog box is laid out and how each function works.

 

 

The Condition Detail - Overview