Case Study: W. Webber Construction halves estimating time and secures accurate, documented bids with HCSS HeavyBid

W. Webber’s Utilities Division Uses Heavybid To Build Master Estimates

W. Webber Construction’s Utilities Division in The Woodlands, TX, led by Estimating Manager Syd Jones, builds complex water and wastewater treatment projects that typically require a four- to five-week estimating effort. The division lacked standardized quantities and true bid history, and several sister teams still relied on fragile spreadsheets, making it time-consuming to recreate bid forms and risky to manage last-minute changes.

By adopting HCSS HeavyBid, Jones created master estimates and activity libraries as templates for pump stations, water plants and wastewater projects, and he imports non-HeavyBid numbers from other divisions as subcontractor inputs. The team can make tracked, line-item adjustments with a clear audit trail, cutting estimating time roughly in half, eliminating spreadsheet corruption, and increasing confidence in cost accuracy at bid time.

W. Webber Construction

Syd Jones

Estimating Manager