Bar-Cal Estimating construction Services for the steel fabricating Industry
in BC, across Canada, and in Washington State, or anywhere in the USA.

Bar-Cal services provides your company with a professional and competitive advantage over other businesses in the construction and steel fabricating Industry. Bar-Cal effectively and efficiently provides detailed bill of materials, summary letter, itemized recap by type and size, a complete set of marked up architectural engineered drawings and structural engineered drawings, project steel specifications, contractors list, and follow up due to addendum changes.

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Professional And Competitive Advantages

(a) Utilizes the computer estimating program FabTrol (Industry standard for Steel Fabrication Software)

(b) The advantages of a group of experienced estimators without the additional cost related to other full-time employees.

Detailed Bill of Materials is broken down in subsections to include such items as shown in the summary letter

(a) Column steel

(b) Floor steel

(c ) Roof steel

(d) Perimeter steel

(e ) Embed steel

(f) Misc. details

(g) Misc. Items such as canopy steel, elevator steel and ladders

(h) Stair package

(I ) Handrails - given in Lineal footage only

Recap by Type and Size

Includes a breakdown of the materials required i.e.:anchor bolts, bolts count, stud count, structural sizes all weighted total lineal footage given, total weight of materials, weight of materials requiring galvanizing, total square footage of materials requiring painting.

Marked up set of Drawings
(Architectural engineered drawings and Structural engineered drawings)

All items on drawings are given a specific Mark Detail number. This number shows up in the bill of material detailing sheets.

All drawing materials that have been taken off the plan drawings, have bay lines/grid lines to indicate its exact location, listed on the detailed bill of materials.

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