Estimating and project controls · Edmonton, Alberta
Schwehr Projects Ltd. does quantity takeoffs, estimates, tender support and project cost control for contractors in Alberta and British Columbia. One person, a fixed fee per bid or an hourly rate for ongoing work, every number traceable to a drawing.
Services
01 · Takeoffs and estimates
Measured from the civil drawing set and cross sections, by station, structure or assembly, then priced with your unit rates and production factors or mine.
02 · Tenders
Help getting a complete, compliant submission out the door when the deadline is close.
03 · Project controls
The reporting a project needs once it is won, set up so the people running it can keep it current.
04 · Aggregates
Controls for producers and the contractors who buy from them, built from years inside aggregate operations.
What you get
A takeoff arrives as an Excel workbook, not a PDF. Each line carries the drawing, the station or structure, and the measured quantity, so your estimator can check any line in seconds and swap in their own rates.
The same workbook feeds the scope sheet, so inclusions, exclusions and RFIs are written while the quantities are fresh, not reconstructed on bid day.
| Ref | Item | Location | Qty | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-101 | Topsoil strip and stockpile, 150 mm | Sta 0+000 to 0+640 | 1,152 | m³ |
| C-102 | Common excavation, cut | Sta 0+000 to 0+640 | 4,870 | m³ |
| C-102 | Embankment fill, compacted in place | Sta 0+000 to 0+640 | 3,215 | m³ |
| C-201 | Granular base, 25 mm crushed, 150 mm | Full width, 7.0 m | 1,410 | t |
| C-301 | CSP culvert, 900 mm, with bedding | Sta 0+412 | 18.0 | m |
How it works
Drawings, specs, addenda and the bid form, by email or a shared link. A phone call covers what the documents do not.
A fixed fee and delivery date for a bid, or an hourly rate for ongoing controls work, agreed before any work starts. Site visits are arranged when the job calls for one.
Takeoff, estimate and scope sheet in one workbook, with a short walkthrough so your estimator can own it.
One invoice, net 30. Ongoing project-controls work is billed monthly under a simple master agreement.
About
I am Vern Schwehr. Before starting Schwehr Projects I was a project controller in aggregate and heavy civil operations in British Columbia, where I owned the estimating, cost tracking, job costing and estimate-at-completion forecasting for the business, including project controls and subcontract management on Trans Mountain Expansion Project scopes.
That work means I have sat on the contractor's side of the table: writing the bid, tracking the tickets, explaining the forecast to the owner. The workbooks I deliver are the ones I would want to inherit.
Before construction I spent seven years in enterprise IT, which is why the spreadsheets are built to be checked, reused and handed to the next person rather than rebuilt each bid.
Contact
Send the drawing set or a short description of the job and you will have a fixed quote back within one business day. First job for a new client is at a reduced fee so you can judge the work before committing to more.