Experience the process of assembling and submitting a General Contractor Bid in a simulated General Contractor office on Bid Day with ASPE

About this Event

Educational Goal: Understand the process of estimating construction costs for a project and of bidding for a contract. Learn about and use scale when calculating costs from an architectural drawing.

This session starts with a brief overview of the pre-construction estimating process. Then teams engage in an exercise to estimate the construction costs of a construction project. Finally, based on their estimates, teams participate in a simulation of a bid-day environment when they take bids from subcontractors(played by mentors) and submit a sealed bid for the project. Time 2 hours. The cost estimating exercise requires about 60 minutes, and the bid simulation takes 60 minutes.

5:00 PM Happy Hour immediately following Bid Day Simulation in the Lobby