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SharpeSoft Newsletter (March 2026)
Inside... SharpeSoft Webinar GT Weldon Finds the Joy in Estimating Again Refer a friend and earn $750 SharpeSoft Employee Highlight 2025 Construction Industry Retrospective Past Webinar Information The Fruit of the Spirit The Story Celebrating its 50th year of operation in 2025, GT Weldon Construction, LLC, is a general engineering and oil field services contractor based out of Vernal, Utah. GT Weldon has created a legacy of value since 1975, putting its culture of integrity
Dylan C
Mar 195 min read
What Winning Construction Bids Have in Common (And How Estimating Software Helps)
What Winning Construction Bids Have in Common (And How Estimating Software Helps) Every contractor knows the feeling: you spend days preparing a construction estimate. You double-check the numbers. You submit the bid with confidence. Then the results come back. You lost the project by a few thousand dollars. In heavy civil construction , that scenario happens all the time. The difference between winning and losing a project often comes down to accuracy, speed, and confidence
SharpeSoft
Mar 185 min read
Better Communication and Easier Documentation: How Heavy Civil Contractors Use SharpeSoft
Better Communication and Easier Documentation: How Heavy Civil Contractors Use SharpeSoft Heavy civil construction isn’t just about dirt, pipe, asphalt, or concrete. It’s about coordination. And when communication breaks down, documentation follows; and margins disappear. If you’ve ever dealt with multiple versions of the same estimate, confusion between field and office numbers, missing backup during a change order dispute, or time wasted searching for the “final” file. You
SharpeSoft
Feb 234 min read
SCI Infrastructure Uses SharpeSoft to Continue a Legacy
The Story Located in the Seattle-Tacoma area, SCI Infrastructure, LLC. has been a mainstay of the area for decades, transforming from a simple operation helmed by brothers Armondo and John Scoccolo, to an incorporated venture providing trusted construction services up and down Washington state. Like the legendary fig tree which graces the company’s property, SCI has grown to become a beloved member of the community. 2821 S 154th St, SeaTac, WA 98188 With the Scoccolo brand ce
Dylan C
Feb 104 min read
SharpeSoft Customer Webinar (January 29, 2026)
The SharpeSoft Customer Webinar series is designed to assist SharpeSoft users of all skill levels in getting the most out of the Estimator set in a new collaborative online environment. What to Expect Quality presentations performed by SharpeSoft's knowledgeable Success Team every month, demonstrating only the newest of Estimator releases. Dedicated timeslots throughout the webinar to allow for user-submitted questions and answers. A new perspective on SharpeSoft's powerful f
Dylan C
Feb 51 min read
SharpeSoft Customer Webinar (December 18, 2025)
The SharpeSoft Customer Webinar series is designed to assist SharpeSoft users of all skill levels in getting the most out of the Estimator set in a new collaborative online environment. What to Expect Quality presentations performed by SharpeSoft's knowledgeable Success Team every month, demonstrating only the newest of Estimator releases. Dedicated timeslots throughout the webinar to allow for user-submitted questions and answers. A new perspective on SharpeSoft's powerful f
Dylan C
Feb 51 min read
SharpeSoft Customer Webinar (November 20, 2025)
The SharpeSoft Customer Webinar series is designed to assist SharpeSoft users of all skill levels in getting the most out of the Estimator set in a new collaborative online environment. What to Expect Quality presentations performed by SharpeSoft's knowledgeable Success Team every month, demonstrating only the newest of Estimator releases. Dedicated timeslots throughout the webinar to allow for user-submitted questions and answers. A new perspective on SharpeSoft's powerful f
Dylan C
Feb 51 min read
SharpeSoft Customer Webinar (October 29, 2025)
The SharpeSoft Customer Webinar series is designed to assist SharpeSoft users of all skill levels in getting the most out of the Estimator set in a new collaborative online environment. What to Expect Quality presentations performed by SharpeSoft's knowledgeable Success Team every month, demonstrating only the newest of Estimator releases. Dedicated timeslots throughout the webinar to allow for user-submitted questions and answers. A new perspective on SharpeSoft's powerful f
Dylan C
Feb 31 min read
SharpeSoft Customer Webinar (September 25, 2025)
The SharpeSoft Customer Webinar series is designed to assist SharpeSoft users of all skill levels in getting the most out of the Estimator set in a new collaborative online environment. What to Expect Quality presentations performed by SharpeSoft's knowledgeable Success Team every month, demonstrating only the newest of Estimator releases. Dedicated timeslots throughout the webinar to allow for user-submitted questions and answers. A new perspective on SharpeSoft's powerful f
Dylan C
Feb 31 min read
Boost Construction Productivity: Integrating SharpeSoft with Your Project Workflow
Boost Construction Productivity: Integrating SharpeSoft with Your Project Workflow Construction productivity doesn’t usually fail because teams work too slowly. It fails because information breaks down between estimating, project management, and the field. An estimate gets approved. A project gets kicked off. And suddenly, the numbers that made the job profitable are buried in spreadsheets, PDFs, or tribal knowledge that never fully makes it to the people executing the work.
SharpeSoft
Jan 294 min read
Construction Photos in SharpeSoft IPM
Accurate photographs of the construction environment are necessary when ascertaining remaining project length, accounting for inclement weather, and maintaining a general level of information about a given project. Photos can be inserted into an IPM project in several different ways, broadly defined by their function. These are either Pre-Construction Photos, Daily Progress Photos, or Post-Construction Photos . NOTE: If you are working in the cloud environment, you must first
Dylan C
Jan 152 min read
Efficient Bid Tools: The Key to Winning More Construction Projects
Bidding on heavy civil construction projects can be a complex, time-consuming process. You need accuracy, speed, and a clear edge over competitors. That’s where efficient bid tools come in. These software solutions streamline your estimating and bidding, helping you win more contracts and manage projects better. Let me walk you through why these tools are game-changers and how to pick the right one for your business. Why Efficient Bid Tools Matter in Heavy Civil Construction
Dylan C
Jan 73 min read
Field Reporting on the Go: Mobile Construction Software Trends And Best Practices
Field Reporting on the Go: Mobile Construction Software Trends And Best Practices Construction projects move fast, but field data often doesn’t. Crews are producing work in real time, yet critical information about labor, production, equipment, and materials still arrives late, incomplete, or not at all. By the time the office sees the data, the opportunity to correct course has already passed. That disconnect is why mobile field reporting software , like the solutions offer
SharpeSoft
Jan 26 min read
GT Weldon Rediscovers the Joy of Estimating with SharpeSoft
The Story Celebrating its 50th year of operation in 2025, GT Weldon Construction, LLC, is a general engineering and oil field services contractor based out of Vernal, Utah. GT Weldon has created a legacy of value since 1975, putting its culture of integrity and hard work to full use for its many water infrastructure, subdivision, grading, mass excavation, and pipeline focused operations. 1050 S 1300 E, Vernal, UT 84078 SharpeSoft spoke with second generation CEO Mike Weldon a
Dylan C
Dec 11, 20256 min read
SharpeSoft Newsletter (December 2025)
Inside... SharpeSoft Webinar South Bay Grading Doubles Output with SharpeSoft Refer a friend and earn $750 SharpeSoft Employee Highlight The Audit Trail: Keep Track of All of Your Important Bid Item Changes The Reason for the Season The Story Located in balmy Santa Clara, California, South Bay Grading is a fully licensed Class A General Engineering Contractor. With over 30 years of experience in the field, owner and President Shawn Dean brings a mindset geared towards success
Dylan C
Dec 10, 20258 min read
Beyond Spreadsheets: How Heavy Civil Contractors Choose the Right Project Management Software
Beyond Spreadsheets: How Heavy Civil Contractors Choose the Right Project Management Software If you’ve ever managed a heavy civil project with a dozen crews, hundreds of assets, and a labyrinth of cost codes, you’ve probably lived the spreadsheet nightmare. Dozens of versions. Conflicting data. Delayed updates. Before long, what started as an organized tracking system turns into a mess of formulas, forgotten rows, and missing context. That’s exactly why contractors across th
SharpeSoft
Nov 25, 20255 min read
Linking Bid Items to a Trench Profiler
The Trench Profiler is an awesome tool capable of creating intricate trench designs with just a few clicks. While the Estimator system allows users to insert new material items into the Trench Profiler, the ability to link these items provides for a stronger basis of understanding costs and measurements associated with the trench. Note : These instructions assume that appropriate bid items to be linked to the trench already exist elsewhere in the job. For more information on
Dylan C
Nov 19, 20252 min read
MDX Excavating Finds SharpeSoft Makes the Cut
The Story Founded in 1994 by William Dedden, MDX Incorporated is an excavation and siteworks focused construction company offering extensive services to the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas. Championing a culture of safety and integrity, MDX Incorporated has established itself as a trusted provider for its general contractor, commercial and industrial owner, developer, and government agency partners. Current head of the company and primary estimator, Eric Dedden
Dylan C
Nov 18, 20255 min read
Equipment Threshold Hours in SharpeSoft Estimator
The Equipment Threshold Hours window is used to set up a discount schedule for each piece of equipment you own, based on the number of hours the equipment is used per day. For example, if you want to offer a discount for your owned equipment after eight hours of use per day, you would enter '8' in the Day length threshold field. If your owned equipment is used more than eight hours per day, then the discount would be applied to any hours over the threshold of '8' set here.
Dylan C
Oct 28, 20253 min read
Drag-and-Drop Bid Items in SharpeSoft Estimator
While creating bid items in the SharpeSoft Estimator is quick and easy, as already shown , sometimes there's no need to bother with the process of making a brand new bid item when an appropriate one already exists somewhere else in the job. Dragging-and-dropping is the solution to this problem; Estimator allows for free manipulation of data when it comes to moving specific bid items throughout the Bid Item window. Keep reading for some helpful tips and tricks on how to make t
Dylan C
Oct 27, 20252 min read
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