Design-build and EPC firms run on judgment that moves from project to project in people's heads: which estimates to trust, which details cause trouble in the field, and which owner requirements hide a cost. When a senior estimator, engineer or project manager moves on, the next bid is priced without it.
The adjustments a senior estimator makes for a region, a subcontractor or a type of site rarely reach the estimating system. A new estimator applies the book numbers, and the margin goes with the difference.
Projects end with a lessons learned meeting and a document nobody opens on the next job. The same detail fails in the field again, because the people who saw it the first time are on another project or gone.
A spec choice made for a good reason on one project gets copied, or dropped, on the next one without anyone knowing why it was there.
We build the vault: your company's knowledge, kept safe and open to your teams and systems. For design and EPC work, that means the judgment that carries from one project to the next.
Estimating adjustments and the conditions that trigger them.
Field problems, their causes and the design changes that prevent them.
The reasoning behind recurring spec and detail choices.
Owner and subcontractor patterns that affect cost and schedule.
How senior people review a bid or a design before it goes out.
Delivered into your data platform, as a tool your people search, or as SOPs and training for successors. See where it goes.
Tell us who is leaving, what they run, and roughly when. That is enough to have a useful first conversation about scope.
Applied Continuity LLC dba KnowledgeBricks. Indianapolis, Indiana.