| Session 1 — Thursday 2:00 – 3:15 |
| Advanced Bid Summary (Repeated) |
Not feeling completely confident that you know all there is to know about the summary process? Learn all about summarizing costs, overriding spreads, and working with add-ons and bond tables. See several examples of how to handle specific job markup and overhead situations.
This class is repeated on Friday from 11:00 – 12:15. |
| HeavyBid Joint Venture Discussion |
We'll discuss the Joint Venture subsystem in HeavyBid, including:
- How joint venture partners can prepare estimates independently and bring them together to be compared/analyzed in HeavyBid.
- Defining Joint Venture Setup information (partners, responsibility, cost groups, etc.)
- Importing/entering “agreed upon” job items and partner estimate cost data for the job items and review.
- Comparing and analyzing job and partner data.
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| HeavyJob for Plants (Repeated) |
This class will review the various options available to track diaries, time cards, and production quantities at both your aggregate and asphalt plants.
This class is repeated on Friday from 11:00 – 12:15. |
| How to Get More from the Field Than Just Time (Repeated) |
Most companies using HeavyJob know how to get time and production in from the field. But they may not be getting the detailed notes and information that can help a manager make intelligent decisions about what is going on in the field. Learn how to make it easy for your field personnel to send you detailed information and the best practices to implement to keep the information coming.
This class is repeated on Friday from 11:00 – 12:15. |
| Introducing HeavyJob to Your Foremen (Repeated) |
Want to be able to get field employees at any level working effectively in HeavyJob? Then this is the class for you. Learn useful processes and procedures to help you avoid common training pitfalls.
This class is repeated on Friday from 1:30 – 2:45. |
| Understanding HeavyJob Reports |
View all the reports available in HeavyJob, breaking down what each report is for, what kind of information is given, and what options are available. Also, learn which reports are common and which are more specialized. |
| Session 2 — Thursday 3:30 – 4:45 |
| Equipment360 and FuelerPlus Benefits |
Learn about HCSS' newest products, Equipment360 and FuelerPlus, why you've got to have these products, and the return on your investment after you purchase them. |
| Interface Across Your Place Lab (Repeated) |
Get an overview of how HCSS products operate and integrate with each other and your accounting system. See HCSS in action as we take a look at a day in the life of HCSS Construction Co.
This class is repeated on Thursday from 3:30 – 4:45.
Sign up early because space is limited. |
| Introduction to Illuminate (Repeated) |
Get a taste of the powerful data analysis features built into Illuminate, from instant high-level reports where the really vital data leaps off the screen to beautiful, customizable charts that make important trends come to life. Once you've seen what Illuminate can do, you'll want to follow up with the advanced course, “Shine the Light on Your Company's Data with Illuminate.”
This class is repeated on Friday from 3:00 – 4:15. |
| Resource Planning |
In this class, you will learn how to get more people in your company planning their jobs and crews in The Dispatcher. You will learn some simple setup tricks to make it extremely easy for everyone in your organization to use the intelligent scheduling functionality in The Dispatcher. We will also look at how doing this will increase efficiency and decrease manpower and equipment shortages. |
| So You've Been Using HeavyJob for 3 Years… (Repeated) |
So you purchased HeavyJob a few years back and have it running in your company, and you like what you are getting out of it. But now you wonder if you can be getting more. In this interactive class, we'll examine the full scope of what HeavyJob can do. We'll also discuss ways the features that have been added over the years can help you get the most out of your HeavyJob system. If you have been using HeavyJob for years, then this is a “must see” class.
This class is repeated on Friday from 9:30 – 10:45. |
| Session 3 — Friday 8:00 – 9:15 am |
| Differences Between HeavyBid Basic, Advanced, and Comprehensive |
Ever think about upgrading to the next level of HeavyBid? Come see if upgrading is right for you. |
| Disaster Recovery Tips Learned from Hurricane Ike |
Hurricane Ike hit Houston on a Friday night in September of 2008. By Saturday morning, nearly 100% of the city was without power, including HCSS' office. This class will examine some of the key strategies that enabled HCSS to be back up-and-running for our customers with almost no interruption. We'll also share some of the lessons we learned to make our disaster recovery efforts easier and more complete. This will be a great real-world discussion of when Disaster Recovery plans need to go into effect. |
| Estimating Equipment Costs Part I: Equipment Operating Cost Components |
We will look at and discuss methods of determining your hourly equipment operating costs. Learn how to derive and utilize values for the various hourly operating cost components and consumption values of your equipment. This will facilitate your ability to estimate and easily make last minute adjustments to various operating costs within your estimates. |
| Shine the Light on Your Company's Data with Illuminate |
This course will prepare you to be a “Beacon of Illumination” at your company. You'll learn how to create customized views of your data by dragging column and row headers as well as applying complex filters to select just the data that is important to you. You'll see how to make key data stand out by assigning colors based on the field's value. You'll build calculated fields and experiment with the powerful drill-down capabilities. We'll also cover printing reports, customizing their appearance on the page by adding headers, footers, and watermarks, and exporting them to a wide variety of other applications. When you finish, you'll be a hero to everyone at your office, especially to those who need to analyze production information. |
| Using HeavyJob Billing |
An important part of controlling company cash flow is to properly and efficiently bill the owner and track subcontract payments. With HeavyJob's Billing module, we will show you how to gather and modify pay item quantities from cost code quantities, track change orders, and create invoices using the AIA format. We will also cover subcontract payments and generate time and material bills. |
| Session 4 — Friday 9:30 – 10:45 |
| Cost to Complete (Repeated) |
A vital duty of project managers and engineers is to project job cost to completion. With HeavyJob's Cost to Complete feature, you can view historical information, then project the cost to complete based on budgeted, current, or any desired production. Upon completion of Cost to Complete, we will demonstrate how to export the information to give your field personnel reasonable production targets.
This class is repeated on Friday from 3:00 – 4:15. |
| Estimating Equipment Costs Part II: Advanced Equipment – Ownership/Rental Costs |
Building off of Part I, this class will cover such topics as Advanced Equipment Setup and Rent Time Adjustments. Topics will include using purchase and salvage (resale) values, as well as “rent vs. time” methods to more accurately estimate equipment ownership/rental costs in your bids. |
| Interface Across Your Place Lab (Repeated) |
Get an overview of how HCSS products operate and integrate with each other and your accounting system. See HCSS in action as we take a look at a day in the life of HCSS Construction Co.
This class is repeated on Thursday from 3:30 – 4:45.
Sign up early because space is limited. |
| So You've Been Using HeavyJob for 3 Years… (Repeated) |
So you purchased HeavyJob a few years back and have it running in your company, and you like what you are getting out of it. But now you wonder if you can be getting more. In this interactive class, we'll examine the full scope of what HeavyJob can do. We'll also discuss ways the features that have been added over the years can help you get the most out of your HeavyJob system. If you have been using HeavyJob for years, then this is a “must see” class.
This class is repeated on Friday from 9:30 – 10:45. |
| Understanding HeavyBid Reports |
Go beyond the everyday reports you are used to running in HeavyBid, and uncover information you may not even know exists. We will explain what each report does and its value to you. Learn to customize query reports for the bid review and see how reports can vary according to the estimate. |
| Session 5 — Friday 11:00 am – 12:15 pm |
| Advanced Bid Summary (Repeated) |
Not feeling completely confident that you know all there is to know about the summary process? Learn all about summarizing costs, overriding spreads, and working with add-ons and bond tables. See several examples of how to handle specific job markup and overhead situations.
This class is repeated on Friday from 11:00 – 12:15. |
| Cross Estimate Analysis |
This class will focus on HeavyBid's Estimate Management view, a helpful utility allowing you to track important stats on all your estimates. Estimate Management allows chief estimators to see how many estimates they've won in a year, how much asphalt is scheduled to come from their plants, and many other important indicators. We'll also cover how to use filters and key indicators to make the most of the Estimate Management utility. |
| Estimating Equipment Costs Part III: Equipment Biditems – Complex Ownership/Rental Costs |
Building on Part II, class attendees will learn how to use the more complex equipment biditems to determine equipment ownership/rental costs. Learn how equipment biditems can be used to estimate and time-span ownership/rental costs of major equipment pieces. |
| HeavyJob for Plants (Repeated) |
This class will review the various options available to track diaries, time cards, and production quantities at both your aggregate and asphalt plants.
This class is repeated on Friday from 11:00 – 12:15. |
| How to Get More from the Field Than Just Time (Repeated) |
Most companies using HeavyJob know how to get time and production in from the field. But they may not be getting the detailed notes and information that can help a manager make intelligent decisions about what is going on in the field. Learn how to make it easy for your field personnel to send you detailed information and the best practices to implement to keep the information coming.
This class is repeated on Friday from 11:00 – 12:15. |
| Return on Investment |
Guest Instructor: Matt Stevens
Contractors work in the second riskiest industry in the United States. Shouldn't they be compensated for it? Certainly, their Return on Investment (ROI) should be one of the highest. Learn the reasons why ROI is a key measure, along with profit percentage and backlog, in helping contractors manage their business better. We will share live examples and have Q & A to further clarify everyone's understanding. |
| Session 6 — Friday 1:30 – 2:45 |
| Executive Job Review |
This class is designed specifically for owners, senior managers, or others who do not prepare bids but must review them. We'll cover the specific items you must check and explain exactly what those review points mean. You'll learn how to determine the risk in the way the bid was prepared rather than the risk in the work itself. |
| HeavyJob/Web |
See the nuts and bolts of HeavyJob/Web. This class will be both technical (we will show you how to set up HeavyJob/Web on a web server and configure it to work with HeavyJob) and evaluative (we will go over the differences between HeavyJob/Web and HeavyJob/Field). |
| Introducing HeavyJob to Your Foremen (Repeated) |
Want to be able to get field employees at any level working effectively in HeavyJob? Then this is the class for you. Learn useful processes and procedures to help you avoid common training pitfalls.
This class is repeated on Friday from 1:30 – 2:45. |
| Overhead Calculation |
Guest Instructor: Matt Stevens
The right application of costs can greatly improve a contractor's financial picture. With an average net profit before tax of 2% to 5% for most construction contractors, the need for accuracy is high. In other words, the difference between reward and punishment is slim. Part of getting work is knowing the final costs of the project. If we know our final cost, then the “poker game” starts. The Direct Costing Method of Overhead Cost Application is the most exact method. This course will explain the process and mechanics along with live examples of how it's entered into HeavyBid. |
| What Happened in HeavyJob in 2008? |
Get a quick overview of all the new features introduced in HeavyJob 2008. |
| Session 7 — Friday 3:00 – 4:15 |
Cost to Complete
(Repeated) |
A vital duty of project managers and engineers is to project job cost to completion. With HeavyJob's Cost to Complete feature, you can view historical information, then project the cost to complete based on budgeted, current, or any desired production. Upon completion of Cost to Complete, we will demonstrate how to export the information to give your field personnel reasonable production targets.
This class is repeated on Friday from 3:00 – 4:15. |
| HCSS Integration Discussion |
Come share your experiences with interfaces between HCSS products and other software. Learn from others and come up with “best practices” when using HCSS products and services. |
| Improving Equipment Utilization |
In this class, you will learn how to use utilization data from both HeavyJob and GPS to make intelligent decisions about equipment allocation. You will also learn how the combination of HeavyJob's “non-use” codes, in addition to dispatching procedures, can help you better identify available equipment in the field. We will also discuss strategies to get the rest of your company to be more proactive in planning their equipment needs. |
| Introduction to Illuminate (Repeated) |
Get a taste of the powerful data analysis features built into Illuminate, from instant high-level reports where the really vital data leaps off the screen to beautiful, customizable charts that make important trends come to life. Once you've seen what Illuminate can do, you'll want to follow up with the advanced course, “Shine the Light on Your Company's Data with Illuminate”.
This class is repeated on Friday from 3:00 – 4:15. |
