Construction Estimating & Bidding

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Spring 2026

Course Number

CE 5035

CRN

16972

Credits

3

Discipline

Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

Instructor

Somayeh Asadi (rkn3gr@virginia.edu)

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of how a general contractor pursues, estimates, bids and procures work. The course will cover the full range of activities from conceptual estimating, to scoping and bidding projects, to the submission of proposals to the general contractor’s clients as well as the procurement types and the corresponding strategies that a general contractor employs in the pursuit of these procurements.