Construction estimating services in Greer, SC

They come from the U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey for 2025, and they count new privately-owned residential units permitted by the city itself — not the whole county, and not commercial or industrial permits. Greer issued 409 such units in 2025, down from 1,488 in 2024, a change of about -73 percent. All 409 were single-family; multifamily was zero. Permitted value was $101M, or $247,500 per unit on average. Treat these as a demand signal, not a construction cost index.

A drop from 1,488 units to 409 in one year means fewer active subdivisions competing for the same crews, which usually loosens framing, concrete and MEP labor availability. That can work in your favor on labor rates, but it also means some subs are bidding work outside their normal trade to stay busy. Price the scope, not the market. If you are bidding multifamily in Greer, note that the 2025 data shows zero multifamily units permitted, so there is no recent local comparables base to lean on.

Greer is in the Piedmont, so expect red clay, micaceous saprolite and weathered rock rather than clean sand or coastal soils. That means shrink and swell factors matter for cut and fill balance, and rock excavation should be a separate unit-price item instead of an allowance. Have the geotechnical report in hand before you finalize the takeoff. If the report is not available, carry an unclassified excavation line and state the assumption in your proposal so the number is defensible.

For a complete takeoff, yes — architectural, structural, civil, and the MEP drawings. If MEP is still schematic, we can price the architectural and structural scope and flag the MEP quantities as allowances. Send PDFs and we mark them up in Bluebeam Revu, then deliver an Excel workbook and PDF organized by CSI MasterFormat division. Most projects turn around in 24 to 48 hours, and rush delivery is available when a bid date is close.

Division 31 for earthwork and erosion control, Division 03 for concrete and reinforcement, Division 06 for framing and sheathing, Division 07 for roofing and waterproofing, and Divisions 22, 23 and 26 for plumbing, HVAC and electrical. On a slab-on-grade house, Division 03 and Division 06 usually carry the largest share of cost, so small errors in footing dimensions or stud counts move the total more than anything else in the estimate.

Yes, and we label it as such. We price what is on the sheets, list the assumptions in a basis-of-estimate note, and mark every quantity that depends on a drawing that is still in progress. Truss packages, mechanical equipment schedules and site retaining walls are the usual items that move between revisions. That way you can bid with a documented number and update only the flagged lines when the final drawings arrive.

We price material and labor using ZIP-code-adjusted RSMeans data, so a Greer ZIP does not carry the same labor rate as Charleston or Myrtle Beach. The Upstate manufacturing base keeps some trades — electrical, mechanical, steel — tighter than the coastal markets, while residential framing and concrete labor tend to be more available. The adjustment is applied inside the estimate, not as a flat percentage on the bottom line.

An Excel workbook and a PDF, both organized by CSI MasterFormat division, plus a marked-up plan set showing what was measured and where. Quantities are broken out by line item with units — cubic yards, square feet, linear feet, each, tons — so you can drop them into your own pricing sheet. We do not bundle everything into a single square-foot number, because that hides the scope gaps that lose bids.

Yes. We cover Greer and the surrounding Upstate markets, and we also work across the state, including Myrtle Beach, Aiken, Anderson, Mauldin, Greenwood and North Augusta. Pricing is adjusted by ZIP code, so a Mauldin or Anderson job gets its own labor and material basis rather than a Greer number with a markup. Start with our South Carolina construction estimating page if you want the statewide picture.

As a separate unit-price line, never as a lump-sum allowance. Piedmont profiles often show partially weathered rock that a track hoe can rip but a dozer cannot push, and the volume only becomes clear after the cut is opened. Carry a quantity from the geotechnical borings, price it per cubic yard, and state in your proposal that the quantity is estimated from borings and will be reconciled against actual measurement. That protects both you and the owner.