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| Friday | 9:00-10:15 am | 10:30-11:45 am | 12:45-2:00 pm | 2:15-3:30 pm | 3:45-5:00 pm |
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Session A: Thursday 9:00 – 10:15 A.M. (Pre-Conference Class)Back to Top
Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1
HeavyBid
This two-session class will help you prepare for, organize and update pricing for the various subcontractors and material suppliers that quote your work and get the prices that you chose into the estimate and ultimately the bid. Includes minority requirements, entering adjustments to quote, defining the scope of work, last minute scope adjustments, electronic tracking of all quotes, reporting options and bid closing procedures.
This class automatically enrolls you in Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 2 on Thursday from 10:30 - 11:45 am.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Using the Bid Summary to Develop Realistic Unit Costs
HeavyBid
The Bid Summary is the process in HeavyBid for converting an estimate into a unit price bid so there is a realistic correlation between your biditem unit costs and your starting biditem prices. This class covers how to handle indirect costs, markups, add-ons, contingency items, inter-company quotes, mobilization items and other cost elements as you turn a cost estimate into a unit-priced bid. Bid vs Takeoff quantity differences and their consequences will also be discussed.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Using the Activity Codebook for Rapidly Building Estimates
HeavyBid
HeavyBid can use a list of common activities, referred to as the Activity Codebook, to enforce standardization for historical productions and costs as well as help quickly build detailed estimates that include crews, materials, quantity factors, and optional production rates. This class covers how to set up and use the Activity Codebook for quicker estimating, avoiding omissions, obtaining history, verifying human review and for establishing budget cost codes for successful bids.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Ways to Find Possible Errors in Your Estimate
HeavyBid
Use the tools in HeavyBid to find errors or holes in your estimate. Learn how to quickly locate the things that can hurt your bid, correct them fast, and be confident that your estimate does not have any glaring errors. This class is a must for all estimators.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Fundamentals of Field Entry
HeavyJob
This class will go in-depth into the typical daily functions used in HeavyJob for field entry. We will cover diaries, working conditions, notes, attachments, time card data, overtime, and seeing how you are doing for the day compared to the budget. If you are the person responsible for training foremen or superintendents in your company or need to know what they are doing, this is the class for you.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Streamline Your Processes Through HeavyJob Integration
HeavyJob, IT
Many customers are not aware of all the interface points between HeavyJob and other products and are not gaining the maximum advantages of reducing the many forms of double and triple entry throughout their company. Learn the integration points of HeavyJob with other HCSS applications, your accounting package and other 3rd party applications. Even if you do not have other HCSS products, you may discover here how much time you could be saving in some of your current processes.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Using The Dispatcher to Electronically Improve the Traditional Magnet Board
Equipment, Intro to HCSS
Engage your dispatcher with software that mimics his manual board and keep adding functionality until he has streamlined his dispatching process. This class starts by using The Dispatcher to cover the functionality of a traditional magnet board. Then it progresses to show how easily you can take requests for the next day’s dispatch, note resources that are becoming available, and then quickly schedule the next day’s dispatch. Once scheduled, see how to print equipment move requests and send foremen information about what to expect the next day. Learn also how to track rented equipment and see a history of all prior activity.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
Improve Shop Efficiency with Equipment360
Equipment, Intro to HCSS
This class will demonstrate using Equipment360 work orders to stay on top of maintenance requests and to make sure your equipment is up and running again as quickly as possible. Learn how to make requests, assign them to shop or job-site mechanics, find all relevant equipment information, monitor the status of those requests, and have mechanics electronically enter their own time. Also learn how to monitor service history and how to get metrics on various repair procedures and mechanics.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Reduce Fuel Waste by Tracking Where It Goes
Equipment, Intro to HCSS
Waste can occur in your fuel-related transactions in many ways, such as too much idling time, "misplaced" fuel, administering charge backs, as well as the administrative aspect of recording timecards and fuel receipts. This class covers efficient hand-held entry for your fuel truck driver, HeavyJob entry for your foremen, and entry in the home office of fuel, lube, and meter readings, as well as fueler time. Learn how to keep track of dispensed fuel for any number of fueling devices and how to interface with products such as Fuel Man and your accounting system.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Using Data Integration Studio to Better Integrate with Your Accounting
IT
The Data Integration Studio (DIS) allows HeavyJob and The Dispatcher to seamlessly update with employee, equipment, and budget information from your company’s accounting system thus avoiding double entry. It can also allow HeavyJob to "True Up" costs with accounting. Learn how this works and what it takes to get up and going with the DIS. If you wish to automate integration before jobs start in the spring, this is a perfect time to learn about this valuable process.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Managing the Power of Expectations - Part 1
Leadership
Instructor: Gene Duckro View Bio
Individual performance is influenced, both negatively and positively, by the expectations of others. It’s called the Pygmalion Effect and it has been documented numerous times in business and education. In this workshop, the participants will learn the power of perception and how to identify their own biases that affect their relationships with others. Also, they will learn how to become more objective in their assessment of people. Additionally, they will learn how their expectations actually drive people’s performance. Participants will learn the four factor method for how the leader’s expectations are communicated to others. The workshop also demonstrates for leaders how to transmit high expectations so that they can bring out the best in employees.
This class automatically enrolls you in Managing the Power of Expectations - Part 2 on Thursday from 10:30 - 11:45 am.
Session B: Thursday 10:30 – 11:45 A.M. (Pre-Conference Class)Back to Top
Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 2
HeavyBid
This class is a continuation of Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1 on Thursday from 9:00 - 10:15 am.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Efficiently Closing the Bid on Bid Day
HeavyBid
This class covers bid-day activity and how to manage it to be fast and in control of your bid on bid-day. It covers the iterative process of running bid summaries, pricing biditems, taking and selecting quotes, error checking, minority requirements status, and submitting the bid. This class assumes that the estimator taking this class already knows the basics of the Bid Summary and the Quote System and is focused on efficiency and accuracy of the entire process.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Using Advanced Cost Entry Techniques to Save Time
HeavyBid
When you first learned HeavyBid, you probably only learned enough technique to successfully build an estimate. This class covers the many shortcuts that the average busy estimator would not likely learn on their own. Just going back with a few time-saving shortcuts under your belt could save you many hours per year and may help in crunches when your boss or client is waiting. This class assumes that you already know how to enter a basic estimate.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Efficiently Sponsoring a Joint Venture Using HeavyBid
HeavyBid
HeavyBid 2009.2, slated for release in December, will have a new Joint Venture module designed to help you as either the Sponsor or a Partner perform the electronic steps necessary to integrate easily with your partners. As the sponsor, see how you can save time preparing the data and rules for your partners and how to get data back from them electronically and prepare joint venture comparison reports as well as electronic reviews. If you’ve never done a joint venture before, this class will help you see what is involved. As a partner you will see how quickly you can provide electronic data to the sponsor.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Advanced Field Entry - Really Improve Your Operations
HeavyJob
You already know the basics of how to get time from your field operations. Now learn how HeavyJob can really go to work for you providing additional production metrics, planning, equipment usage, employee attendance, T&M, extra work, safety, fuel, jobsite materials, and inventory.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Finally - Better Ways to Track Trucks
HeavyJob, Equipment, Intro to HCSS
HCSS now has several ways to track trucks. HeavyJob has a new efficient truck ticket entry to supplement the current truck ticket summary method. The Dispatcher has a truck ordering system that sends truck orders directly to HeavyJob. By using HCSS mounted and portable GPS units, The Dispatcher can even directly bill your own or 3rd party truckers without the need for physical truck tickets. Even if you do not own all of these products, come see if any of these methods will improve your trucking operations.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Using The Dispatcher to Track People, Trucks, Material, and Small Tools
Equipment
Not only can The Dispatcher track equipment, it can track all other resources as well. See how to track your people including certifications, training, and skills. Small tools is another area where you may find you could save a lot of time by efficiently tracking a lot of what would otherwise be tedious information. Learn how to track your own and third party trucks as well as the material they are carrying and how to use portable GPS data as the basis for paying your third party truckers.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Using Equipment History and PMs to Improve Equipment Up-Time
Equipment
This Equipment360 class uses preventive maintenance and other advanced features to help improve the reliability of your fleet and reduce costly job-site breakdowns. This class also covers items such as inventory, document management, interfacing with your accounting system, and how to use Quick Reports. The Quick Reports functionality provides quick, easy-to-read, graphical reports of equipment history.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Using the SQL Version of HCSS Products
IT
All HCSS products now have an optional SQL database version. Learn the pros and cons of changing to the SQL database and the mechanics of doing so.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Managing the Power of Expectations - Part 2
Leadership
Instructor: Gene Duckro View Bio
This class is a continuation of Managing the Power of Expectations - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Managing the Power of Expectations - Part 1 on Thursday from 9:00 - 10:15 am.
Session 1: Thursday 1:30 – 2:45 P.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1
HeavyBid
This two-session class will help you prepare for, organize and update pricing for the various subcontractors and material suppliers that quote your work and get the prices that you chose into the estimate and ultimately the bid. Includes minority requirements, entering adjustments to quote, defining the scope of work, last minute scope adjustments, electronic tracking of all quotes, reporting options and bid closing procedures.
This class automatically enrolls you in Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 2 on Thursday from 3:00 - 4:15 pm.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Using the Bid Summary to Develop Realistic Unit Costs
HeavyBid
The Bid Summary is the process in HeavyBid for converting an estimate into a unit price bid so there is a realistic correlation between your biditem unit costs and your starting biditem prices. This class covers how to handle indirect costs, markups, add-ons, contingency items, inter-company quotes, mobilization items and other cost elements as you turn a cost estimate into a unit-priced bid. Bid vs Takeoff quantity differences and their consequences will also be discussed.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Using the Biditem Codebook to Rapidly Create D.O.T. Estimates
HeavyBid
Would you like to have your estimate mostly created in only the time it takes to select or import the biditems and include crews, materials, and subcontract items? This is the ultimate automation in HeavyBid and if you are not doing it, you should be attending this class. If you believe too much automation is not a good thing, you should still be working some of these techniques into your bid to reduce pointless repetitive entry and then learning how to review those items to ensure accuracy. These techniques can save time on non-DOT projects also.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
How to Quickly Change Anything in Your Estimate
HeavyBid
There are many shortcuts in HeavyBid for quickly copying and changing data throughout the estimate that may not be readily apparent to estimators who spend most of their time on the main entry screen. This class covers fast ways to perform activities such as changing resource rates, all labor rates at once (such as a new union agreement), all equipment rates at once (such as blue book rates), replacing crews, changing productions, and many more potentially time-consuming changes after most of the initial estimate is complete.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Conforming the Estimate to Better Track Costs
HeavyBid
This class, taught by an experienced HCSS Estimator, covers theory and techniques in rearranging HCSS Estimates in order to get better quantity reporting and budgets for accurate job costing. This class has a slight bias towards creating jobs that can be effectively tracked in HeavyJob. This class briefly touches on the actual export to accounting/HeavyJob.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Fundamentals of Field Entry
HeavyJob
This class will go in-depth into the typical daily functions used in HeavyJob for field entry. We will cover diaries, working conditions, notes, attachments, time card data, overtime, and seeing how you are doing for the day compared to the budget. If you are the person responsible for training foremen or superintendents in your company or need to know what they are doing, this is the class for you.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Finally - Better Ways to Track Trucks
HeavyJob, Equipment, Intro to HCSS
HCSS now has several ways to track trucks. HeavyJob has a new efficient truck ticket entry to supplement the current truck ticket summary method. The Dispatcher has a truck ordering system that sends truck orders directly to HeavyJob. By using HCSS mounted and portable GPS units, The Dispatcher can even directly bill your own or 3rd party truckers without the need for physical truck tickets. Even if you do not own all of these products, come see if any of these methods will improve your trucking operations.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Using the Production Planner to Improve Productivity
HeavyJob
Most foremen who use HeavyJob on a daily basis appreciate being able to get immediate feedback on how they are doing. This class will explore taking them to the next level – forecasting work for tomorrow and beyond using the Production Planner. Learn how they can plan for crew members, equipment, materials and production, compare to the budget, run reports and graphs, and make electronic requests to The Dispatcher for items that they need.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
The Human Side of Introducing HeavyJob to Your Foremen
HeavyJob
The manner in which HeavyJob is introduced to your foremen/superintendents can dramatically affect the way they embrace it. Learn methods that will help them have a positive experience and get the most personal value out of it. This class should be helpful for both new HeavyJob customers just starting to implement and prospective HeavyJob customers wanting to plan ahead.
Using The Dispatcher to Track People, Trucks, Material, and Small Tools
Equipment
Not only can The Dispatcher track equipment, it can track all other resources as well. See how to track your people including certifications, training, and skills. Small tools is another area where you may find you could save a lot of time by efficiently tracking a lot of what would otherwise be tedious information. Learn how to track your own and third party trucks as well as the material they are carrying and how to use portable GPS data as the basis for paying your third party truckers.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Improve Shop Efficiency with Equipment360
Equipment, Intro to HCSS
This class will demonstrate using Equipment360 work orders to stay on top of maintenance requests and to make sure your equipment is up and running again as quickly as possible. Learn how to make requests, assign them to shop or job-site mechanics, find all relevant equipment information, monitor the status of those requests, and have mechanics electronically enter their own time. Also learn how to monitor service history and how to get metrics on various repair procedures and mechanics.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Using Active Directory for Single Sign-On with HCSS Products
IT
Do you currently use Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) to manage user accounts in your network? If so, then this class is a perfect way to learn how to simplify the task of Account and Password management in HCSS applications by seamlessly integrating with AD.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Effective Delegation - Part 1
Leadership
Instructor: Gene Duckro View Bio
Effective delegation accomplishes much more than the task at hand. It also builds trust for future delegations, helps employees develop new skills and reduces managerial stress.
Leadership development and employee engagement will be addressed through this workshop. Participants receive solid instruction in a key leadership competency and they commit to giving employees increased opportunity to take on new assignments. Tasks will be delegated more often and with greater clarity -- leading to better results, improved productivity and higher job satisfaction overall.
This class automatically enrolls you in Effective Delegation - Part 2 on Thursday from 3:00 - 4:15 pm.
Making Change Happen - Part 1
Leadership
Instructor: Mike Murray View Bio
Managers and Supervisors are sometimes charged with the responsibility of making change happen. The change may have to do with new technology, new policies, new methodologies, or new structures.
In any case, people are sometimes resistant to the change. This workshop is designed to help participants address that resistance in helpful and productive ways.
This class automatically enrolls you in Making Change Happen - Part 2 on Thursday from 3:00 - 4:15 pm.
Session 2: Thursday 3:00 – 4:15 P.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 2
HeavyBid
This class is a continuation of Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1 on Thursday from 1:30 - 2:45 pm.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Efficiently Closing the Bid on Bid Day
HeavyBid
This class covers bid-day activity and how to manage it to be fast and in control of your bid on bid-day. It covers the iterative process of running bid summaries, pricing biditems, taking and selecting quotes, error checking, minority requirements status, and submitting the bid. This class assumes that the estimator taking this class already knows the basics of the Bid Summary and the Quote System and is focused on efficiency and accuracy of the entire process.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Using Advanced Cost Entry Techniques to Save Time
HeavyBid
When you first learned HeavyBid, you probably only learned enough technique to successfully build an estimate. This class covers the many shortcuts that the average busy estimator would not likely learn on their own. Just going back with a few time-saving shortcuts under your belt could save you many hours per year and may help in crunches when your boss or client is waiting. This class assumes that you already know how to enter a basic estimate.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Ways to Find Possible Errors in Your Estimate
HeavyBid
Use the tools in HeavyBid to find errors or holes in your estimate. Learn how to quickly locate the things that can hurt your bid, correct them fast, and be confident that your estimate does not have any glaring errors. This class is a must for all estimators.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Efficiently Sponsoring a Joint Venture Using HeavyBid
HeavyBid
HeavyBid 2009.2, slated for release in December, will have a new Joint Venture module designed to help you as either the Sponsor or a Partner perform the electronic steps necessary to integrate easily with your partners. As the sponsor, see how you can save time preparing the data and rules for your partners and how to get data back from them electronically and prepare joint venture comparison reports as well as electronic reviews. If you’ve never done a joint venture before, this class will help you see what is involved. As a partner you will see how quickly you can provide electronic data to the sponsor.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Using Alternates to Arrive at the Best Possible Bid
HeavyBid, Intro to HCSS
HeavyBid has many types of alternates to help you work up, examine, and discuss alternate strategies and what their affect would be on the bid. These include simple alternates at the activity level, major alternates at the biditem level, and entire groups of alternates such as a steel vs concrete alternate that might affect 100 biditems or more. Learn how to structure these various types of alternates, switch back and forth between one another, tell how much the estimate would change between one versus another, and see what happens with the various types of alternates when running the bid summary and pricing biditems.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Leaner Jobs - How Can HeavyJob Benefit My Company
HeavyJob, Intro to HCSS
This class is for potential HeavyJob customers who are interested in learning how HeavyJob can help a company stay profitable when competition is driving down profit margins. We will see a lean business process in which time card and other field data is collected, reviewed, approved, and analyzed to deliver timely and accurate job data to decision makers throughout the organization.
Ongoing Reconciliation of HeavyJob with Accounting
HeavyJob
HeavyJob is designed to provide your entire organization daily feedback about your job including costs, but ultimately your accounting system has the official numbers. Learn how our "True Up" process allows you to periodically bring actual accounting costs back into HeavyJob as adjustment transactions and how those can be used for reporting and forecasting. True Up requires our Data Integration Studio which can also be used to sync up HeavyJob's employees, equipment, and cost codes with your accounting system.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Using HeavyJob to Substantiate Claims/Extra Work Requests
HeavyJob
Substantiating claims and extra work requests can be an immense challenge, particularly if the documentation is all on paper. This class will explore how to use the tracking tools within HeavyJob to enter and quickly retrieve detailed electronic information such as notes, images, forms, hours, quantities, signatures, bills, etc. Learn what can be entered and how it can be efficiently retrieved.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
How to Get More from the Field Than Just Time
HeavyJob
If you have implemented HeavyJob and have everyone consistently entering their time but are looking to take it to the next level, this is the perfect class for you. This class will cover the techniques used to help field personnel see the value in putting quantities, diaries, documents, safety, fuel, and more into the system and the benefits they get from it. You will learn both technical details and motivational techniques in this class.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Using The Dispatcher to Electronically Improve the Traditional Magnet Board
Equipment, Intro to HCSS
Engage your dispatcher with software that mimics his manual board and keep adding functionality until he has streamlined his dispatching process. This class starts by using The Dispatcher to cover the functionality of a traditional magnet board. Then it progresses to show how easily you can take requests for the next day’s dispatch, note resources that are becoming available, and then quickly schedule the next day’s dispatch. Once scheduled, see how to print equipment move requests and send foremen information about what to expect the next day. Learn also how to track rented equipment and see a history of all prior activity.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
How to Get More from GPS Than Just Locations
Equipment
In this class, you will learn how to use GPS and The Dispatcher to increase your trucking production by identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies, increase utilization by identifying idle equipment, help curb theft with alerts and other notifications, and make better decisions based on real-time production information. You will also learn how GPS can integrate with HeavyJob to find under-reported equipment hours and with Equipment360 to update meter readings that drive PM schedules.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
How to Setup and Manage FTP
IT
HeavyJob and The Dispatcher can use FTP as a way to transfer data via the internet between the office and the field in a manner that is more seamless than email. This class will show you how to effectively install and setup FTP and give you an understanding of how FTP works with our software so that you can provide a more reliable, standard way of transferring data inside and outside the company.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Using Illuminate to Create Your Own Ad Hoc Reports
IT
Learn how to use Illuminate to quickly create and format attractive ad-hoc reports which you can highlight, print, or instantly turn into graphs and charts. Track productions from HeavyJob, equipment utilization from The Dispatcher, and compare estimates from HeavyBid without the need to have an IT person write special reports.
Effective Delegation - Part 2
Leadership
Instructor: Gene Duckro View Bio
This class is a continuation of Effective Delegation - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Effective Delegation - Part 1 on Thursday from 1:30 - 2:45 pm.
Making Change Happen - Part 2
Leadership
Instructor: Mike Murray View Bio
This class is a continuation of Making Change Happen - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Making Change Happen - Part 1 on Thursday from 1:30 - 2:45 pm.
Session 3: Friday 9:00 – 10:15 A.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1
HeavyBid
This two-session class will help you prepare for, organize and update pricing for the various subcontractors and material suppliers that quote your work and get the prices that you chose into the estimate and ultimately the bid. Includes minority requirements, entering adjustments to quote, defining the scope of work, last minute scope adjustments, electronic tracking of all quotes, reporting options and bid closing procedures.
This class automatically enrolls you in Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 2 on Friday from 10:30 - 11:45 am.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Creating Quick, Attractive, and Accurate Bid Proposals
HeavyBid
There are several ways in HeavyBid to prepare bid proposals. Learn the capabilities and advantages of each bid proposal technique and the mechanics of how to use them. Includes how to handle subtotals, alternates, and A + B bids as well as the different appearances these proposals can have.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Activity Codebook Workshop - Part 1 Workshop
HeavyBid
If you’ve wanted to create an activity codebook but never had time, this hands-on, two-session class will help you get started. In this class, we will start with a code structure which can be ours or yours (don’t forget to bring it) and perform over and over the steps that you would use to develop your codebook. At the conclusion of class, you should have a good start on your codebook and enough technique that you will not soon forget it. We will also work on your material codebooks. We recommend that you have Microsoft© Excel for this class.
This class automatically enrolls you in Activity Codebook Workshop - Part 2 on Friday from 10:30 - 11:45 am.
How to Quickly Change Anything in Your Estimate
HeavyBid
There are many shortcuts in HeavyBid for quickly copying and changing data throughout the estimate that may not be readily apparent to estimators who spend most of their time on the main entry screen. This class covers fast ways to perform activities such as changing resource rates, all labor rates at once (such as a new union agreement), all equipment rates at once (such as blue book rates), replacing crews, changing productions, and many more potentially time-consuming changes after most of the initial estimate is complete.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Efficiently Sponsoring a Joint Venture Using HeavyBid
HeavyBid
HeavyBid 2009.2, slated for release in December, will have a new Joint Venture module designed to help you as either the Sponsor or a Partner perform the electronic steps necessary to integrate easily with your partners. As the sponsor, see how you can save time preparing the data and rules for your partners and how to get data back from them electronically and prepare joint venture comparison reports as well as electronic reviews. If you’ve never done a joint venture before, this class will help you see what is involved. As a partner you will see how quickly you can provide electronic data to the sponsor.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Estimating Equipment Costs - Part 1
HeavyBid
Many customers start using HeavyBid with one cost per hour for equipment. This class is for those who want a more thorough understanding of how they can break the hourly equipment costs down into more detail and how that allows you to make more realistic estimates as well as have more ability to quickly change costs. This includes the difference between ownership and operating costs and how to setup the equipment to be able to make cost adjustments for circumstances such as rapid fuel rate fluctuations or a temporary drop in equipment rental rates.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
HeavyJob Best Practices Discussion Among Payroll Personnel
HeavyJob
This class is for people involved with payroll to discuss their experience in HeavyJob, what they are doing well, what they have struggled with and how they overcame it. This is a great opportunity to share your clever solutions and learn from others.
Managing Your HeavyJob System
HeavyJob, IT
Are you the technical HeavyJob expert at your company? Take this class to learn the in-depth details on HeavyJob. This includes various options available to the system and users, required vs suggested vs optional information, possible communication techniques to use, group and user security, what to do with multiple business units, how to set up joint ventures, and more.
Managing Pay Requests with HeavyJob
HeavyJob
A vital part of controlling company cash flow is to efficiently bill the owner and track sub payments. Learn how to set up HeavyJob to gather pay item quantities using cost code quantities, track change orders, and create invoices including AIA forms. Through HeavyJob’s Subcontract Payment module, generate and modify sub quantities, payments, and change orders. Finally, discover how to generate T&M bills promptly through proper tracking of time and material by the field.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
How Project Management Can Best Use HeavyJob
HeavyJob
As a Project Manager, you need to ensure that the electronic data provided by the foremen/superintendents is providing the maximum benefit to the company. Learn what kind of data is being provided, how to approve it, how to give feedback, and help everyone get better at providing relevant and timely information. Also cover how to check and provide pay requests from owners and subs and how to re-forecast longer-running jobs.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
The Dispatcher/GPS User’s Group Meeting - Part 1
Equipment
Come discuss The Dispatcher and GPS with your peers and HCSS management. Along with all managers involved in these products, the HCSS Executive team will attend. This is a great opportunity to make sure everyone knows what you need in these products to help you be as productive as possible.
Using Data Integration Studio to Better Integrate with Your Accounting
IT
The Data Integration Studio (DIS) allows HeavyJob and The Dispatcher to seamlessly update with employee, equipment, and budget information from your company’s accounting system thus avoiding double entry. It can also allow HeavyJob to "True Up" costs with accounting. Learn how this works and what it takes to get up and going with the DIS. If you wish to automate integration before jobs start in the spring, this is a perfect time to learn about this valuable process.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
Key Performance Indicators, Scoreboards, & Forecasting - Part 1
Leadership
Instructor: Brad Hams View Bio
Businesses typically "keep score" with financial statements. Of course these are critical to operating a business, but they are not enough for several reasons. First, they are historical documents and cause us to manage our businesses reactively vs proactively. Second, they focus only on the score at the end of the game: financial, lagging indicators. They tell us nothing about what occurred during the game that got us there. If we are to drive financial performance, we must focus on the leading, operational measures that impact it. Finally and most importantly, financials do not drill accountability down to those people who influence them.
This class automatically enrolls you in Key Performance Indicators, Scoreboards, and Forecasting - Part 2 on Friday from 10:30 - 11:45 am.
Models of Motivation - Part 1
Leadership
Instructor: Mike Murray View Bio
Managers and Supervisors must pay attention to the issue of "motivation", both their own and the people they seek to lead.
This workshop is based on the assumption that different people are motivated by different things. It will examine at least seven different approaches to the issue of motivation with the hope that participants will find having several options available to them helpful in addressing the particular motivational issue they need help with.
This class automatically enrolls you in Models of Motivation - Part 2 on Friday from 10:30 - 11:45 am.
HeavyBid Overview
Intro to HCSS
This class is for non-HeavyBid customers who want to find out if HeavyBid could help them bid a lot more work in less time. It is a high-level overview focusing on ways to quickly build estimates, analyze for reasonableness and completeness, make changes quickly, examine alternatives, manage quotes, and stay in control on bid-day. After this class you should be able to evaluate whether or not HeavyBid provides a substantial speed improvement over your current estimating method and whether it can be part of your strategy to bid more work without adding people until the future is more certain.
Session 4: Friday 10:30 – 11:45 A.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 2
HeavyBid
This class is a continuation of Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Using the Quote System to Effectively Manage Quotes - Part 1 on Thursday from 9:00 - 10:15 am.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Streamline Your Invitation to Bid Process
HeavyBid
HeavyBid 2009.2, slated for release in December, will have a brand new invitation to Bid system. The newly redesigned process resides outside individual estimates and makes it much easier to control all of the invitation activity for a multi-estimate bid letting. This class will help you save time preparing and sending invitations and cover the new and better reports for ‘good faith’ efforts.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Activity Codebook Workshop - Part 2 Workshop
HeavyBid
This class is a continuation of Activity Codebook Workshop - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Activity Codebook Workshop - Part 1 on Friday from 9:00 - 10:15 am.
Managing Your HeavyBid System
HeavyBid, IT
This class is for your HeavyBid expert who needs to know how and where everything about HeavyBid is stored on the computer. Includes all setups and preferences that determine how HeavyBid will be used by your estimators. While this class is not specifically for IT personnel, fairly strong computer knowledge is required.
Design-Build Strategies Using HeavyBid
HeavyBid
This class will cover ways that an estimate can be structured and HeavyBid can be used in design-build projects taking into account that the projects are usually larger, have multiple partners, and are constantly changing.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Estimating Equipment Costs - Part 1
HeavyBid
Many customers start using HeavyBid with one cost per hour for equipment. This class is for those who want a more thorough understanding of how they can break the hourly equipment costs down into more detail and how that allows you to make more realistic estimates as well as have more ability to quickly change costs. This includes the difference between ownership and operating costs and how to setup the equipment to be able to make cost adjustments for circumstances such as rapid fuel rate fluctuations or a temporary drop in equipment rental rates.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Advanced Field Entry - Really Improve Your Operations
HeavyJob
You already know the basics of how to get time from your field operations. Now learn how HeavyJob can really go to work for you providing additional production metrics, planning, equipment usage, employee attendance, T&M, extra work, safety, fuel, jobsite materials, and inventory.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Using HeavyJob to Collect and Distribute Joint Venture Field Data
HeavyJob
Collecting data in two or three-way joint ventures when companies share workers and equipment has traditionally been fragmented and difficult for any one person to completely know what is going on with the job. HeavyJob is the perfect way to fix this problem. Learn how all parties can use HeavyJob to enter timecard and other field data, and then parse the data out to the JV and partner accounting systems.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Using Our Specialty Time Card for Rapid Data Entry
HeavyJob
HeavyJob’s new Specialty Job is designed specifically for employees in your company who travel between many jobs in one day (like mechanics, water truck drivers, clean-up crews, etc.), and those who enter data for a variety of people such as office payroll personnel. The goal is to quickly enter a small amount of information about a lot of jobs. In this class you will learn how the entry works, the methods in which review can be done, and the manner in which job cost is affected immediately, not through frustrating, late-arriving back charges.
How to Get More from the Field Than Just Time
HeavyJob
If you have implemented HeavyJob and have everyone consistently entering their time but are looking to take it to the next level, this is the perfect class for you. This class will cover the techniques used to help field personnel see the value in putting quantities, diaries, documents, safety, fuel, and more into the system and the benefits they get from it. You will learn both technical details and motivational techniques in this class.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
The Dispatcher/GPS User’s Group Meeting - Part 2
Equipment
This class is a continuation of The Dispatcher/GPS User’s Group Meeting - Part 1.
Reduce Fuel Waste by Tracking Where It Goes
Equipment, Intro to HCSS
Waste can occur in your fuel-related transactions in many ways, such as too much idling time, "misplaced" fuel, administering charge backs, as well as the administrative aspect of recording timecards and fuel receipts. This class covers efficient hand-held entry for your fuel truck driver, HeavyJob entry for your foremen, and entry in the home office of fuel, lube, and meter readings, as well as fueler time. Learn how to keep track of dispensed fuel for any number of fueling devices and how to interface with products such as Fuel Man and your accounting system.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Using Active Directory for Single Sign-On with HCSS Products
IT
Do you currently use Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) to manage user accounts in your network? If so, then this class is a perfect way to learn how to simplify the task of Account and Password management in HCSS applications by seamlessly integrating with AD.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
Key Performance Indicators, Scoreboards, & Forecasting - Part 2
Leadership
Instructor: Brad Hams View Bio
This class is a continuation of Key Performance Indicators, Scoreboards, and Forecasting - Part I.
This class automatically enrolls you in Key Performance Indicators, Scoreboards, and Forecasting - Part 1 on Friday from 9:00 - 10:15 am.
Models of Motivation - Part 2
Leadership
Instructor: Mike Murray View Bio
This class is a continuation of Models of Motivation - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Models of Motivation - Part 1 on Friday from 9:00 - 10:15 am.
Session 5: Friday 12:45 – 2:00 P.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Self-Perform vs. Sub Analysis - Do it Quickly at Any Time
HeavyBid
With the tight economy and lack of work, it may now be even more critical to see what it would cost you to do the work you would normally subcontract out. This class covers how to link your own work to that of a sub, compare, and select one or the other. This class incorporates all of the recently released features to make this easier and more accurate as you try to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Streamline Your Invitation to Bid Process
HeavyBid
HeavyBid 2009.2, slated for release in December, will have a brand new invitation to Bid system. The newly redesigned process resides outside individual estimates and makes it much easier to control all of the invitation activity for a multi-estimate bid letting. This class will help you save time preparing and sending invitations and cover the new and better reports for ‘good faith’ efforts.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Using the Activity Codebook for Rapidly Building Estimates
HeavyBid
HeavyBid can use a list of common activities, referred to as the Activity Codebook, to enforce standardization for historical productions and costs as well as help quickly build detailed estimates that include crews, materials, quantity factors, and optional production rates. This class covers how to set up and use the Activity Codebook for quicker estimating, avoiding omissions, obtaining history, verifying human review and for establishing budget cost codes for successful bids.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Ways to Find Possible Errors in Your Estimate
HeavyBid
Use the tools in HeavyBid to find errors or holes in your estimate. Learn how to quickly locate the things that can hurt your bid, correct them fast, and be confident that your estimate does not have any glaring errors. This class is a must for all estimators.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Design-Build Strategies Using HeavyBid
HeavyBid
This class will cover ways that an estimate can be structured and HeavyBid can be used in design-build projects taking into account that the projects are usually larger, have multiple partners, and are constantly changing.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Estimating Equipment Costs - Part 2 - Fine Tuning Your Costs
HeavyBid
Most estimators use hourly equipment costs in their estimates. But what if you are not using the equipment the whole time it is on site, if it has extensive mob costs, if you purchase and salvage it, if you have stand-by equipment, or if it is a compound piece of equipment built from other equipment? This class is specifically for estimators who deal with complex equipment estimating issues and want their estimates to accurately reflect the true costs and allocation of these costs.
Fundamentals of Field Entry
HeavyJob
This class will go in-depth into the typical daily functions used in HeavyJob for field entry. We will cover diaries, working conditions, notes, attachments, time card data, overtime, and seeing how you are doing for the day compared to the budget. If you are the person responsible for training foremen or superintendents in your company or need to know what they are doing, this is the class for you.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Streamline Your Processes Through HeavyJob Integration
HeavyJob, IT
Many customers are not aware of all the interface points between HeavyJob and other products and are not gaining the maximum advantages of reducing the many forms of double and triple entry throughout their company. Learn the integration points of HeavyJob with other HCSS applications, your accounting package and other 3rd party applications. Even if you do not have other HCSS products, you may discover here how much time you could be saving in some of your current processes.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Using the Production Planner to Improve Productivity
HeavyJob
Most foremen who use HeavyJob on a daily basis appreciate being able to get immediate feedback on how they are doing. This class will explore taking them to the next level – forecasting work for tomorrow and beyond using the Production Planner. Learn how they can plan for crew members, equipment, materials and production, compare to the budget, run reports and graphs, and make electronic requests to The Dispatcher for items that they need.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Reduce Expenses by Eliminating Paper Time Cards
HeavyJob, Intro to HCSS
This class is for potential HeavyJob customers who want to see the efficiencies that can be gained by utilizing HeavyJob to not only eliminate paper time cards in the field but also eliminate the double and triple entry of data that occurs throughout the payroll process. This class will demonstrate field time card entry, the time card review and approval process, and the two way communication process between HeavyJob and accounting.
Advanced Dispatching Features to Improve Equipment Utilization
Equipment
Take your use of The Dispatcher to the next level. Learn how to schedule your equipment out into the future, take and record requests for equipment needed on upcoming jobs, and be able to find the appropriate equipment from your own fleet thereby reducing your dependence on rented equipment. Learn how to provide equipment reports for management letting them know the utilization of all equipment in the fleet, the status of rented equipment, projections for future equipment requirements and more.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Using Equipment History and PMs to Improve Equipment Up-Time
Equipment
This Equipment360 class uses preventive maintenance and other advanced features to help improve the reliability of your fleet and reduce costly job-site breakdowns. This class also covers items such as inventory, document management, interfacing with your accounting system, and how to use Quick Reports. The Quick Reports functionality provides quick, easy-to-read, graphical reports of equipment history.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Using the SQL Version of HCSS Products
IT
All HCSS products now have an optional SQL database version. Learn the pros and cons of changing to the SQL database and the mechanics of doing so.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
Session 6: Friday 2:15 – 3:30 P.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Short-Cuts to Save Time in the Quote System
HeavyBid
There are several short-cuts that can be set up to considerably reduce the time it takes to setup for taking quotes in any particular estimate. These are beyond the scope of most initial HeavyBid training so many estimators are unfamiliar with them. Learn how to set up quote folders to automatically recognize what items from the estimate need to be pulled into them, how to be sure subcontract items are automatically pulled into your estimate, how to use the vendor setup to quickly select vendors for solicitations, and how to setup scope items to be used for various classes of quotes.
Efficiently Closing the Bid on Bid Day
HeavyBid
This class covers bid-day activity and how to manage it to be fast and in control of your bid on bid-day. It covers the iterative process of running bid summaries, pricing biditems, taking and selecting quotes, error checking, minority requirements status, and submitting the bid. This class assumes that the estimator taking this class already knows the basics of the Bid Summary and the Quote System and is focused on efficiency and accuracy of the entire process.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Using the Biditem Codebook to Rapidly Create D.O.T. Estimates
HeavyBid
Would you like to have your estimate mostly created in only the time it takes to select or import the biditems and include crews, materials, and subcontract items? This is the ultimate automation in HeavyBid and if you are not doing it, you should be attending this class. If you believe too much automation is not a good thing, you should still be working some of these techniques into your bid to reduce pointless repetitive entry and then learning how to review those items to ensure accuracy. These techniques can save time on non-DOT projects also.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Linking Excel Takeoffs to HeavyBid and Other Excel Uses
HeavyBid
This class covers many situations in which using Microsoft Excel in combination with HeavyBid can help you save time and give you greater flexibility than HeavyBid alone. Includes how to use the newly rewritten spreadsheet linking process to help you with your takeoffs.
Conforming the Estimate to Better Track Costs
HeavyBid
This class, taught by an experienced HCSS Estimator, covers theory and techniques in rearranging HCSS Estimates in order to get better quantity reporting and budgets for accurate job costing. This class has a slight bias towards creating jobs that can be effectively tracked in HeavyJob. This class briefly touches on the actual export to accounting/HeavyJob.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 1:30 - 2:45 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Using Alternates to Arrive at the Best Possible Bid
HeavyBid, Intro to HCSS
HeavyBid has many types of alternates to help you work up, examine, and discuss alternate strategies and what their affect would be on the bid. These include simple alternates at the activity level, major alternates at the biditem level, and entire groups of alternates such as a steel vs concrete alternate that might affect 100 biditems or more. Learn how to structure these various types of alternates, switch back and forth between one another, tell how much the estimate would change between one versus another, and see what happens with the various types of alternates when running the bid summary and pricing biditems.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Using HeavyJob to Improve Your Safety Processes
HeavyJob, Intro to HCSS
This class covers the concept of tracking safety meetings electronically in HeavyJob as a normal part of your daily process without the clumsiness of an additional set of procedures. Learn how to track meetings, how to quickly collect meeting information and how to run reports against goals. You will also get a preview of our new safety enhancements available when the final User’s Group Meeting release comes out.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Using HeavyJob to Collect and Distribute Joint Venture Field Data
HeavyJob
Collecting data in two or three-way joint ventures when companies share workers and equipment has traditionally been fragmented and difficult for any one person to completely know what is going on with the job. HeavyJob is the perfect way to fix this problem. Learn how all parties can use HeavyJob to enter timecard and other field data, and then parse the data out to the JV and partner accounting systems.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Managing Pay Requests with HeavyJob
HeavyJob
A vital part of controlling company cash flow is to efficiently bill the owner and track sub payments. Learn how to set up HeavyJob to gather pay item quantities using cost code quantities, track change orders, and create invoices including AIA forms. Through HeavyJob’s Subcontract Payment module, generate and modify sub quantities, payments, and change orders. Finally, discover how to generate T&M bills promptly through proper tracking of time and material by the field.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Advanced HeavyJob for Your In-House Expert
HeavyJob
If you have taken the field entry classes and the class for project managers, you know the basics of HeavyJob. But if you want to go in-depth in the advanced features available that most people do not know, this class is for you. This class covers features and techniques that 90% of our customers are not aware of but can further reduce your costs in 2010.
Equipment360/FuelerPlus User’s Group Meeting - Part 1
Equipment
Come discuss Equipment360 and FuelerPlus with your peers and HCSS management. Along with all managers involved in these products, the HCSS Executive team will attend. This is a great opportunity to make sure everyone knows what you need in these products to help you be as productive as possible.
How to Get More from GPS Than Just Locations
Equipment
In this class, you will learn how to use GPS and The Dispatcher to increase your trucking production by identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies, increase utilization by identifying idle equipment, help curb theft with alerts and other notifications, and make better decisions based on real-time production information. You will also learn how GPS can integrate with HeavyJob to find under-reported equipment hours and with Equipment360 to update meter readings that drive PM schedules.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
Writing Custom Crystal Reports Against HCSS Data
IT
Learn how to integrate Crystal Reports into your HCSS products. Understand where to locate and how to connect to HCSS data along with some of the reasons to be using Crystal Reports. This class will walk you through building an entire report from beginning to end. A working knowledge of Crystal Reports is required.
Creating Incentive Plans… That Work! - Part 1
Leadership
Instructor: Brad Hams View Bio
Most incentive plans don't work. In fact, many of them actually damage the organization rather than assist to drive financial performance. Why? Because they are overly complex. They are tied to financial performance, yet we don't teach participants about finance nor engage them in funding the plan. Consequently, there is no connection between activity and bonus, and the plan becomes nothing more than an entitlement.
This class automatically enrolls you in Creating Incentive Plans...That Work - Part 2 on Friday from 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Session 7: Friday 3:45 – 5:00 P.M. Back to Top
HeavyBid 101 Training
HeavyBid
A two day immersion class for estimators not very familiar with HeavyBid. You will learn the basics of HeavyBid from resource setup through estimate entry to summarizing and closing a bid. When you finish this class, you should be able to complete a basic HeavyBid estimate from start to finish.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
HeavyBid 102 Training
HeavyBid
A faster-moving session of HeavyBid 101 for estimators who already have a fair knowledge of HeavyBid or are good with computer software. Because it moves at a faster pace, it will cover more material than HeavyBid 101, such as taking quotes and closing out the bid.
This class is Thursday 1:30 - 4:15 pm & Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Self-Perform vs. Sub Analysis - Do it Quickly at Any Time
HeavyBid
With the tight economy and lack of work, it may now be even more critical to see what it would cost you to do the work you would normally subcontract out. This class covers how to link your own work to that of a sub, compare, and select one or the other. This class incorporates all of the recently released features to make this easier and more accurate as you try to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Creating Quick, Attractive, and Accurate Bid Proposals
HeavyBid
There are several ways in HeavyBid to prepare bid proposals. Learn the capabilities and advantages of each bid proposal technique and the mechanics of how to use them. Includes how to handle subtotals, alternates, and A + B bids as well as the different appearances these proposals can have.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Using Advanced Cost Entry Techniques to Save Time
HeavyBid
When you first learned HeavyBid, you probably only learned enough technique to successfully build an estimate. This class covers the many shortcuts that the average busy estimator would not likely learn on their own. Just going back with a few time-saving shortcuts under your belt could save you many hours per year and may help in crunches when your boss or client is waiting. This class assumes that you already know how to enter a basic estimate.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 am
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Reduce Computation Time With Assemblies & Custom Calculations
HeavyBid
Most estimators use Excel outside of HeavyBid for doing computations. But there are many repetitive small calculations that can be customized right into HeavyBid that would be faster than Excel and automatically go into the notes to be available from within HeavyBid and on reports. In addition, repetitive assemblies can be created such as a formwork assembly where you specify type concrete, type steel, spacing, form use, dimensions, etc. and HeavyBid will create a number of activities with the appropriate crews, amount of concrete, steel, forms, etc. This class covers how to setup a library of repetitive calculations/assemblies to standardize and help all of your estimators save time while keeping the backup calculations as part of the estimate.
Reducing the Time to Convert an Estimate to a Budget
HeavyBid
This class covers the mechanics of exporting a HeavyBid estimate to your accounting system and/or HeavyJob. It covers how to recode items, how to combine items, how to pull out costs such as overtime, fuel, burden, taxes, etc., how to handle indirect costs, etc. The assumption is that you already know what you want to do and only need to know how to do it as quickly as possible. Anyone who spends hours or days using external processes to get costs into their accounting system should be taking this class.
What an Executive Needs To Know About HeavyBid
HeavyBid
This class is designed specifically for owners, senior managers, or others who do not prepare bids, but must review them and want an overview of HeavyBid at a high level so they can be comfortable in paper or electronic bid reviews. We will cover features that you may not be aware of, such as our key indicators and the ability to make last minute equipment rate changes, as well as specific things to look for and what those review points mean.
Using HeavyJob to Improve Your Safety Processes
HeavyJob, Intro to HCSS
This class covers the concept of tracking safety meetings electronically in HeavyJob as a normal part of your daily process without the clumsiness of an additional set of procedures. Learn how to track meetings, how to quickly collect meeting information and how to run reports against goals. You will also get a preview of our new safety enhancements available when the final User's Group Meeting release comes out.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Ongoing Reconciliation of HeavyJob with Accounting
HeavyJob
HeavyJob is designed to provide your entire organization daily feedback about your job including costs, but ultimately your accounting system has the official numbers. Learn how our "True Up" process allows you to periodically bring actual accounting costs back into HeavyJob as adjustment transactions and how those can be used for reporting and forecasting. True Up requires our Data Integration Studio which can also be used to sync up HeavyJob’s employees, equipment, and cost codes with your accounting system.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Using HeavyJob to Substantiate Claims/Extra Work Requests
HeavyJob
Substantiating claims and extra work requests can be an immense challenge, particularly if the documentation is all on paper. This class will explore how to use the tracking tools within HeavyJob to enter and quickly retrieve detailed electronic information such as notes, images, forms, hours, quantities, signatures, bills, etc. Learn what can be entered and how it can be efficiently retrieved.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
How Project Management Can Best Use HeavyJob
HeavyJob
As a Project Manager, you need to ensure that the electronic data provided by the foremen/superintendents is providing the maximum benefit to the company. Learn what kind of data is being provided, how to approve it, how to give feedback, and help everyone get better at providing relevant and timely information. Also cover how to check and provide pay requests from owners and subs and how to re-forecast longer-running jobs.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Advanced Dispatching Features to Improve Equipment Utilization
Equipment
Take your use of The Dispatcher to the next level. Learn how to schedule your equipment out into the future, take and record requests for equipment needed on upcoming jobs, and be able to find the appropriate equipment from your own fleet thereby reducing your dependence on rented equipment. Learn how to provide equipment reports for management letting them know the utilization of all equipment in the fleet, the status of rented equipment, projections for future equipment requirements and more.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Friday 12:45 - 2:00 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Equipment360/FuelerPlus User’s Group Meeting - Part 2
Equipment
This class is a continuation of Equipment360/FuelerPlus User’s Group Meeting - Part 1.
How to Setup and Manage FTP
IT
HeavyJob and The Dispatcher can use FTP as a way to transfer data via the internet between the office and the field in a manner that is more seamless than email. This class will show you how to effectively install and setup FTP and give you an understanding of how FTP works with our software so that you can provide a more reliable, standard way of transferring data inside and outside the company.
This class is offered during the following times:
- Thursday 3:00 - 4:15 pm
- Friday 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Creating Incentive Plans… That Work! - Part 2
Leadership
Instructor: Brad Hams View Bio
This is a continuation of the class Creating Incentive Plans... That Work! - Part 1.
This class automatically enrolls you in Creating Incentive Plans...That Work - Part 1 on Friday from 12:45 - 2:00 pm.