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“Most contractors are missing out on over $200,000 per month in project contracts and they don’t even know it. They are busy, have no time for takeoffs, and they are leaving money on the table. A lot of money.
We designed our construction takeoff service with the goal of helping our clients win projects and ultimately be successful.”
-Daniel Quindemil
Founder, I AM Builders
WHO IS I AM BUILDERS?
I AM Builders is a National Construction Estimating Firm in the business of helping contractors win projects.
With our construction estimating and takeoff services, we’ll help you prepare a budget for your new project.
Most contractors are so busy running their job sites that they NEGLECT their bidding. You’re supervising jobs, making deliveries, going to jobsite meetings, and the only time to work on bidding is NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS.
It doesn’t have to be that way!
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU WIN MORE PROJECTS?
“I have NO TIME to estimate projects”
– Every Contractor in America
The enemy of every contractor is the lack of time. Most contractors are busy working IN the business rather than working ON the business. If that’s the case, you’re not alone. We’ve worked with over 1,400 contractors nationwide estimating and consulting, and that’s normal.
But you’ve probably tried doing it yourself, working at night after work…. probably even on the weekends on the kitchen table. We’ll find your leads for you and can even takeoff your complete construction project after so you can focus on running your business and getting your nights and weekends back.
Stop missing out on bids because of time.
You’re probably MISSING OUT on $200,000 per month because you’re busy
We did an analysis and more contractors are missing out on several projects per month that they can actually win because they are so busy they just pass them up.
Depending on what your average contract value is, most contractors are missing between $200-500K per month in sales because of being busy.
We’ll prepare your entire estimate for you so can keep bidding those jobs.
We can estimate your entire project for you based on your LOCAL PRICING so the numbers will be accurate
I AM Builders is US Based and a licensed General Contractor, so we have actual building experience.
We use a combination of a cost database and our experience to price your projects based on the zip code of your project (Note: Everyone at I AM Builders has actual field experience in construction, not just theory or “paper estimating”).
Pricing for labor and material varies by area and zip code, so we make adjustments for local labor rates, material pricing, and even look at the area’s property value to determine accurate pricing. That’s what makes our construction estimating service a great option for busy contractors.
We even back our estimates with a $1 MILLION ACCURACY GUARANTEE which covers all of our clients by our Errors and Omissions Insurance.
We can help you NEGOTIATE AND CLOSE based on proven strategies
Estimating is only a small part of what it takes to win a job. We like to see this as a TEAM EFFORT.
What do you do after the estimate to give yourself the best chance of winning? We can help you work the numbers when you’re negotiating, and even jump on a conference call with your client (as your estimating team) to help you close.
We can even advise you on EXACTLY WHAT TO DO to have them wanting to USE YOU instead of your competitor.
Over the last 10 years, and after speaking and working with THOUSANDS of Contractors, we get to see what WORKS and what DOESN’T. We have some clients landing 50% of their bids by implementing some of the strategies we can easily show you.
These aren’t strategies we made up – we listened to our clients and created our blueprint based on what they are doing right, and avoiding what they were doing wrong. Best of all….. it works for ANY CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS.
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
You Send in Your Plans
You can upload your plans here or email us at info@iambuilders.com. Whichever is more convenient for you.
Be sure to let us know your scope of work and any details regarding your project.
We Send you a Quote for Our Services
Before starting, we’ll send you a detailed quote for our services. Every client is unique so we take the time to review each situation individually. We’ll factor in things like project range, difficulty, trades, and more.
We Estimate and Deliver Your Cost Estimate
Our team will takeoff and estimate your project. When we deliver you’ll receive a PDF and an Excel file of your estimate. We can also offer construction lead generation services for the jobs you’d like to pursue further.
What makes a Nevada bid different
Nevada doesn’t have one building code. It has one per jurisdiction, and they are not on the same edition.
Clark County flipped on 11 January 2026 — the 2024 IBC, 2024 IRC, 2024 IECC, the 2024 mechanical and plumbing codes and the 2023 NEC, all with Southern Nevada Amendments stacked on top. Reno is on the same 2024 family. Las Vegas is moving to it. The state building officials’ roster still shows Henderson on the 2021 IBC, and North Las Vegas, Sparks and Washoe County on the 2018 IBC with the 2017 NEC. That roster isn’t dated, so we treat the non-Clark entries as a heads-up rather than a ruling. But the shape of it is real: two jobs fifteen minutes apart can be reviewed against code editions six years apart, and the envelope, the fire ratings and the electrical all move with it.
Then there’s the one that catches contractors coming in from out of state. Your Nevada licence has a number on it. The Nevada State Contractors Board sets a monetary limit on every licence — the most you can take on for one client on a single construction site or subdivision. It’s set under NRS 624.260 through 624.265, and it doesn’t care how good your number is. If you bid a job above your limit, you’re going to be raising that limit with a financial statement before you can sign it.
Tax works differently here too. Nevada doesn’t tax construction labor. The sales and use tax rides on your materials, which means the tax exposure on a job moves with the material-to-labor split, not with the contract price. A steel-and-glass shell and a labor-heavy interior fit-out of the same contract value do not carry the same tax.
And underneath all of it is water. AB 356 bars Colorado River water from nonfunctional turf in Clark County after 31 December 2026. If your landscape scope was drawn before that, the site package needs redrawing before it gets priced.
Four things that get missed on a Nevada construction estimate
Every one of these has cost somebody real money. We see them monthly.
1. The licence limit. Nevada is one of the few states where the licence itself caps the contract. The Board’s monetary limit is the maximum you can undertake on one or more contracts on a single site for a single client. Raising it takes an application and a financial statement, and the form of that statement steps up at $25,000, $500,000 and $1,000,000. Lowering a limit costs $250. It belongs on your go/no-go sheet before you spend a week on the takeoff.
2. The fees that live outside the building permit. The City of Las Vegas says it on its own fee page: zoning, sewer connection and impact fees are not in the permit fee calculation. What’s outside it adds up. The Desert Conservation Program is $550 per acre plus a $58 administration fee. The Clark County Transportation Tax is $1,000 per single-family unit. The traffic impact fee is $195 per single dwelling. Residential Construction Tax is 1% of construction valuation or $1,000 per dwelling unit in apartments and condominiums, whichever is less. Sewer connection charges run off an ERU of $3,235 as of 1 January 2026. None of that shows up in a permit estimator, and all of it shows up in your General Conditions.
3. Prevailing wage on public work. Under NRS 338.020, a public works contract over $100,000 with a public body has to pay prevailing wage. The Office of the Labor Commissioner sets the rates and publishes them every odd-numbered year, effective 1 October, with amendments in between. A school, a fire station or a municipal building priced off a national wage average is not priced.
4. Which edition your plan reviewer is actually holding. NRS 701.220 has the Governor’s Office of Energy adopt energy conservation regulations for building construction, and local governments have to adopt a code at least as stringent. Southern Nevada then writes its own amendments to the IECC on top. So “the 2024 IECC” is not the whole answer in Clark County — the amendments are.
Nevada projects we’ve actually priced
We don’t ask you to take our word for it. Sixteen real estimates are on this page — four in each of the four categories we work in. $206.9M of construction value across 186 pages of takeoff and pricing. Thirteen are Nevada jobs. Three are neighbouring-state jobs, marked with their state, because we’d rather show you a real multi-family estimate from Boise than pad a heading. Open them. Read the line items.
Commercial Buildings — ground-up hospitality, retail and institutional.
- Symphony Park Block C, Las Vegas – $110M (89106)
- AC Element Hotel, Sparks – $3M (89434)
- Circle K, Pahrump – $2.3M (89060)
- Orthodox Church, Las Vegas – $1.7M (89139)
Multi Family and Apartments — apartments, condos and multi-unit housing.
- Boulder Highway Apartments, Las Vegas – $57.3M (89122)
- Hawk View Apartments, Reno – $10.6M (89512)
- Orange 33 Apartments, Los Angeles CA – $7.5M (90016)
- Steelwood Station Apartments, Boise ID – $6.1M (83713)
Residential — custom homes, additions and whole-house remodels.
- 667 Scenic Rim Dr Residence, Henderson – $3.9M (89012)
- Del Ray Estates Residence, Phoenix AZ – $2.4M (85018)
- Goldhill Project, Henderson – $300K (89074)
- 910 Rocky Stone Ave, North Las Vegas – $114K (89081)
Tenant Buildouts — interior fit-outs in existing buildings.
- Wellness Clinic, Las Vegas – $658K (89102)
- Dunkin Donuts Las Vegas – $461K (89102)
- Foot Locker Reno – $321K (89502)
- AT&T Las Vegas Project – $264K (89102)
Four building types, from a $114K addition in North Las Vegas to a $110M block downtown. That range is the whole point — most shops price one lane and call it a service.
Look at Symphony Park Block C. Fifty-five pages, general conditions through elevators, on a downtown Las Vegas site. Now look at Hawk View Apartments in Reno: $10.6M and nineteen pages, and almost all of it is cold-formed steel — headers, wall studs, shear walls strap by strap, then the clubhouse on its own. Different building, different problem, same discipline.
The Wellness Clinic and the AT&T buildout are both Las Vegas 89102 interiors, three and six pages, and neither one is a square-foot guess. That’s what a tenant improvement estimate has to look like when the landlord’s allowance is the whole argument.
Where we work in Nevada
We estimate statewide. Here’s where the volume actually is.
Las Vegas Valley. Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Paradise, Spring Valley, Summerlin and Boulder City. Clark County codes, Southern Nevada Amendments, and the fee stack above. Ten of the sixteen estimates on this page are valley jobs.
Reno and Sparks. Reno, Sparks, Sun Valley and the rest of Washoe County. Reno is on the 2024 codes; the county roster still shows 2018. Hawk View, Foot Locker and the AC Element Hotel are all up here.
Carson City, Douglas and Lake Tahoe. Carson City, Minden, Gardnerville, Zephyr Cove and Incline Village. Snow load and Tahoe basin review change the number more than the finishes do.
Nye County and the rural south. Pahrump, Mesquite and Laughlin. Long hauls, thin sub markets, and pricing that has to carry both. The Circle K is a Pahrump job.
Northern and eastern Nevada. Elko, Winnemucca, Fallon, Fernley and Ely. Mining and industrial support work, and crews that travel to it.
Every one of those cities has its own page with local detail. Start there if you want the county-level specifics.
Who our Nevada estimating service is for
General contractors bidding hard-bid and negotiated work. Subs who need a takeoff that survives a scope review. Developers who want a real number before they commit capital. Architects who’d rather price a design now than explain a surprise at bid day.
Construction is a bigger share of Nevada’s economy than of any other state’s — 7.4% of state GDP in 2021. That cuts both ways. There’s plenty of work, and there’s plenty of competition for it. If you’re turning down invitations because you can’t get numbers out fast enough, you’re going to keep leaving work on the table until somebody else does the takeoff for you. That’s what our Nevada construction estimating services are built to fix. You send the plans. We send back a priced estimate with the quantities shown, in a format you can hand straight to a client or an owner.
We’re not a lead service and we’re not a software subscription. A person does the takeoff. Another person checks it. You can call and ask why a number is what it is, and get an answer.
What you’re hiring is a cost estimator who has already priced work under your jurisdiction’s code edition, against your licence limit, at your city’s fee schedule. Not a national square-foot average with the word Nevada written on top.
Send us your plans. We’ll tell you what it costs.
Las Vegas construction estimating services covers the Las Vegas market on its own page, including the local permit rules and sample estimates from jobs priced there.
