Industries / Tenant improvement
Budgets due before the drawings are done.
Tenant improvement work runs on speed. A broker or landlord needs a number this week, from a partial set or a test fit, so a deal can move. The estimate is smaller than a ground-up project but the turnaround pressure is far higher — and you’re doing it many times a month.
What’s different here
What makes estimating different here.
Conceptual before detailed
Most TI requests arrive before there is anything to take off properly. You need a defensible budget from a test fit and a square footage, not a full quantity survey.
Volume over size
Dozens of small budgets a month rather than a handful of large bids. Anything that takes a full day per estimate simply doesn’t scale to the workload.
Allowances and landlord work letters
Budgets have to reconcile against tenant improvement allowances and base-building conditions, and clearly separate landlord scope from tenant scope.
Benchmarks are the credibility
Your numbers get checked against what similar space cost recently. Historical cost per square foot by space type is the asset that makes a fast budget defensible.
How we set it up
What the implementation includes.
Kickoff to live in weeks, not months, using the internal tools we’ve built for implementation.
- Space-type templates — open office, private office, lab, medical, retail — so a budget starts most of the way built
- Historical cost per square foot captured by space type and finish level, so fast numbers are still defensible
- Allowance and landlord-scope structure carried in the estimate rather than tracked on the side
- EstimateIQ (coming soon) for conceptual budgets: it will produce a CSI MasterFormat breakdown early, before there is a set to take off
- Reporting formatted the way brokers, landlords, and tenants read it
What you’ll likely run
The tools that carry the most weight here.
Starting databases
Database marketplace →Tell us how your team estimates.
We’ll tell you whether your setup needs configuring, rebuilding, or something written from scratch.
- Response time
- One business day, usually the same day.