Courses Available
Estimator's & Surveyor's Foundation Courses (Packages)
These are two day courses which are essential for all users. Each course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge required to get the most out of ConQuest. Although there is some degree of commonality between the courses, we do not mix estimators and surveyros on the same course. The full content of each course is too extensive to be listed here. Both courses cover the basics such as system set up, security, marking up bills, creating trade packages, search facilities, basic pricing, quotation comparisons, printing, exporting to Excel and backing up your work. The courses then go into much greater detail for the particular job discipline for example the surveyors will learn more about internal/external valuations, variations, materials on site, job costing and cost value reconcilliations whilst the estimators concentrate more on estimating techniques and resource analysis. These courses are designed to be 25% hands on and 75% lecture.
Estimators's/Surveyor's Workshop (Packages)
Everybody knows that you don't realy get to grips with a software package until you have had experience of using it live. The emphais of th workshops is very much hands on. Using a real job, delegates are taken step by step through all aspects of each discipline. The workshops build on the knowledge gained on the foundatin courses and your own experience, gained in the field. Whilst fully planned and structured, these two day course allow sufficient time for any problems you may have encountered to be solved and any questions that have arisen to be answered. These course are designed to be approximately 75% hand on and 25% lecture.
Specialist Estimators Course
This is a new course created to cater for the growing number of specialist companies using ConQuest. The course is based entirely on the ConQuest Estimating module. Subcontractor Comparisons and Enquiry Management are NOT covered on this course. There is a much greater emphasis on take off, analytical estimating, specialist composite pricing techniques and creating templates for specific types of project. The course is also very well suited to smaller contractors and refurbishment specialists. This course is designed to be approximately 50% hands on and 50% lecture.
Setting up Enquiry Management
ConQuest enquiry management controls all aspects of enquiry production and send out. This course will equip you with the skills required to implement the subcontractor/supplier database and successfully integrate ConQuest and Microsoft Word. You will be able to design create and amend all necessary enquiry documentation thus enabling estimators surveyors and admin staff to efficiently carry out their specific tasks.
Using Enquiry Management
This course is essential to everybody involved in the day to day production and sending out of subcontractor and supplier enquiries. All aspects of these procedures are covered in detail.
Working with ConQuest Data in Excel
There is a great deal that can be achieved with a sound understandning of the relationship between both products. Standard management reports such as adjudication sheets, CVRs and buying gain sheets once created and linked can be reproduced and updated by a single click in ConQuest. This course will show you how.
Data Import
It's easy when you know how! This is where you learn what you wish you had known before you spent hours on the last one.
Design & Build and Budget Pricing
The techniques you will learn on this course will be invaluable in helping you to keep up with the ever increasing demand for quick, accurate budgets. The course covers all aspects of budget pricing including quick take off from outline plans, creation and use of templates and composite budget pricing items as well as cost planning from historical data.
Managing and Amending the ROCK Library
This course gives you the skills and knowledge to tailor your ConQuest Library to meet your specific requirements. It is recommended that you attend this course before making changes to your library.
ConQuest Technical (for IT Staff)
If you are the person responsible for the setting up and management of ConQuest on your company LAN or WAN then this course is for you. It delivers al the technical information required including which files go where and do what, configuration & INI files, standard set ups for desktops and laptops and much more.
Advanced Pricing
This is where you really start to get to grips with ConQuest's powerful pricing facilities and techniques. The course deals with complex rate build ups, creating your own "black book" of rate build ups (manholes etc.) builder's quants and budgeting.
Cost Planning
Every job you have ever priced on ConQuest is a valuable source of realistic historical information. This course shows how, using the cost planning module, you can use this informatin to generate cost plans for future projects.