Meet the crew behind the data
A growing team of experienced cost engineers and analysts source, verify, and maintain our construction cost database. Over 35,000 cost unit items and counting…
At the end of the day it’s about the quality and transparency of the data.
Frank Richardson
Get to know more about Frank
Frank brings with him over 30 years of experience in the Construction Industry. He has spent most of his career working from the position of a General Contractor and has also spent time in project management, as an estimator, and as a consultant. He has been involved in construction including high end residential, traditional commercial, churches, restaurants (national brands), and retail (small box and mid box). In addition to that experience, Frank has also worked in the Retail Construction side of the business as well (material sppliers).
What's your construction specialty?
My strong areas would be Architectural and Structural Construction.
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
The CostCenter suite truly allows the involvement of a team working on a project that could be based in many different locations. When you match this with relevant Cost Data, our system is by far the best offered on the market.
What's the coolest PT&C CostCenter benefit and feature?
The transparency of CostBook. You can see what we are basing our cost items on, so the items are truly usable for estimating.
Nick Adair
Get to know more about Nick
Nick brings with him 19 years of construction estimating experience to the CostCenter team. He is a subject matter expert and one of the lead contributors in the development of our cost data. Nick is a Certified Cost Professional (CCP), AACE, trained agencies on Mii estimating software, and comes with a strong background in the cost engineering space.
What's your construction specialty?
I specialize in Architectural and Structural estimating
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
PT&C CostCenter Suite is more transparent in derivation of cost, more up-to-date, contains relevant products, and well thought out crews performing the work.
What's the coolest PT&C CostCenter benefit and feature?
- It is all online! No more software to install or update! I can get to it from any computer connected to the internet, with my secure login of course.
- Sharing estimates in CostPro and assigning folders is a game changer. No more asking my project manager “Where is the estimate file?” All of my work is clearly assigned to me. When I log in, everything is right in front of me and ready for me to hit the ground running. The assigned folders even change color to let me know the areas I am responsible for in the estimate.
- The Cost Book Library is lightning fast. Both the load screen and searches are speedy. Which is nice because I don't have to waste time waiting for my software to catch up to my pace. Another perk is I can open CostCenter on separate tabs or spread windows on completely separate screens to work more efficiently. Also, it can be full screen; so no more scrolling to see the entire description. The cart feature is really nice too.
Joe Cadden
Get to know more about Joe
Joe brings 55 years of construction experience to CostCenter. He spent many years as a Cost Engineer, Project Engineer, Line Level Electrician, and Administrator for an electrical contracting company that handled projects as large as $5.2 billion. He also has an extensive background in electrical and tele/comm/data/special systems on all constructions stages: pre-construction, engineering, design build, bid build, JOC estimating, +VE, change management, electrical design and CM. In addition, Joe also performed IDIQ estimating during several years.
What's your construction specialty?
Electrical, Tele/Comm/Data/Special Systems (in preconstruction, engineered, design build, bid build, JOC estimating, + VE, Change Management, Electrical Design & CM. In addition to estimating, I was a Cost Engineer, Project Engineer, Line Level Electrician, and Administrator of an electrical contracting company for many years in projects up to $5.2 Billion ($300MM/electrical). Also performed IDIQ estimating.
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
We are producing useable Activities. These Activities will have labor units that are developed by estimators with field experience, understand real life productivities and fully understand construction means and methods. Also, we have useable activities that are not found in other books and are expanded upon every day.
What's the coolest PT&C CostCenter benefit and feature?
The CostBuilder feature to provide input to the Digital Team is great! This feature is a fantastic tool that gives the client access to the Digital Team for questions and resolutions regarding our products. In the demonstrations, I noticed the ease of locating Activities with the Search tool, the clarity in understanding the Activity, and the input.
Thomas Miller
Get to know more about Tom
Tom brings over 35 years of construction experience to the CostCenter team. Through his decades of experience in a variety of construction roles and job functions, Tom adds incredible value and is a driving force behind the development of our construction cost database.
What's your construction specialty?
My construction specialty is – mechanical.
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
I believe that PT&C is addressing a need in the market that many solutions overlook. Because of the level of experience of the people creating it and their varied construction backgrounds.
What's the coolest PT&C CostCenter benefit and feature?
I believe the coolest feature of the PT&C CostBook is the level of detail of the items, you do not have to guess what is and is not included. The CostBook allows you to easily build a comprehensive estimate including all aspects of construction.
Don Underwood
Get to know more about Don
Don has been in the construction industry for over 40 years. Having been involved in various major projects domestically and abroad Don contributes to our data team in a number of ways. He has a strong background in estimating and project management.
What's your construction specialty?
My focus in the field is on Heavy Civil, Marine, and Petro Chem.
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
The number of items tracked monthly along with new items constantly being added. The data is fresh and current not a year or two old but rather today’s data for today’s problems. How can anyone make sound decisions when using data that is either outdated or simply not current to the market today? This book solves all those problems.
George Crystle
Get to know more about George
George began his professional journey in the Construction Industry in 2008 though I was exposed prior years with a co-op experience at the City of Fort Worth, TX as a Student Engineer. The industries in which my experience varies are in Nuclear including extended power uprates, fossil, Oil and Gas (LNG), and Capital Improvement Projects while at the City of Fort Worth.
What's your construction specialty?
My specialty is in process piping.
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
It is simple and reliable. This leaves no opportunity for error, misuse, or failure. We are creating quality information based on the current times.
What's the coolest PT&C CostCenter benefit and feature?
The coolest feature is in Cost Builder, when working in Activities, in the crew function, is once you establish your crew, and input either imperial crew hours or imperial crew units per hour, all other pertinent information is auto calculated and displayed.
Mark Clark
Get to know more about Mark
Mark has over 45 years of construction experience to contribute to our data team. In addition to field experience, Mark is pursuing additional certifications that are pertinent in the development of our cost books.
What's your construction specialty?
My specialty is mostly architectural construction but am extremely well versed in MEP, Structural and Civil construction.
What makes PT&C CostCenter Suite different than alternative solutions?
The CostCenter Suite allows the estimator to have more options when estimating and empowers them to see what is included in the activities from the standpoint of labor and materials. The platform also allows Project Managers to see in further depth what is included. A lot of estimating software solutions don’t allow in-depth views of what is being estimated. By allowing this level of detail, less mistakes are made in the estimating stages.
What's the coolest PT&C CostCenter benefit and feature?
There is not one specific item that I could point to and call it a favorite. The functionality of the entire cost book depends on each portion to work in unity with the others. It gives a tremendous amount of flexibility for both the estimators and Project Managers when pricing projects which allows for greater decision making on the contractors part through the life of the project. As the system continues to grow in information and its functionality the contractors will have even more features that other cost books do not include.
Join the team
Come join a team that is driven to make a difference in construction
PT&C is transitioning to be an Acuity International company. Visit our corporate workday page for more details on job openings.
"The CostCenter team is producing useable Activities. These Activities will have labor units that are developed by estimators with field experience, that understand real life productivities and fully understand construction means and methods. We also have useable Activities that are not found in other books and are expanded upon every day."
– Joe Cadden
CostBook Data Expert
Interested in a demo and speaking with our success team?