Today was my first day at Crowder Construction Co. I began the day by entering through the glass doors to be met by Therese Dean, the head of Co-Op students. After greeting her, she took me on a brief tour around the office and a crash course on Crowder’s history with builds as large as $100 million contracts! Once this 15 minute segment was completed, I met two of the three Co-Ops, Ripkin and Ryan. Today was with Ripkin in estimating.
Ripkin and I began around 9:00 with another crash course on how to figure out totals on estimates and how the contract bidding works. We promptly started calculating surface area of a wastewater purifier and injector about the size of a 3 story house. This entailed many lines of work to ultimately figure out how much the paint will going to cost. The numbers were large and the time needed was hefty but we completed the task at hand. This first day experienced taught me the basics for what I will utilize for the next two weeks. Despite the cubicles being so stereotypical (as seen in the photo below), I enjoyed my 7 hours at Crowder USA.
