Quest Training
Who are Quest?

Quest Business Solutions is a software company committed to providing cutting edge technology for contractors and quantity surveyors to help them build successful, profitable businesses. Their estimating software improves the quality and accuracy of construction tenders and the software has been developed in line with the requirements of construction professionals. They have spent over twenty-five years perfecting their estimating software so that it is easy to understand and manipulate.
Position Partners and Quest
Position Partners and Quest have formed a working alliance to help deliver a full and complete solution to the construction industry. For every single phase of a job, whether it is from the initial survey, design, estimating, costing, quantifying and building; the partnership between Quest and Position Partners has you covered.
Read on for more information about the Quest Earthworks, Takeoff and Estimator Package Demo Days and about the Quest Business Solutions Training Sessions.
Quest Earthworks, Takeoff and Estimator Package Demo Days
Together with Quest, Position Partners invites you to try for yourself the latest in digitial takeoff and earthworks volume calculations. Be amazed at how quickly and accurately you can calculate cut and fill volumes and calculate and confirm tender quantities for samll, medium or large projects, reducing your current time spent on tender documents by up to 75%.
The demo day is split into two sessions:
| Session: | Morning |
Afternoon |
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| Time: | 9:30am - 12:00pm | 1:30pm - 4:00pm | ||
| Target Audience: |
Earthworks |
Costing professionals |
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| Description: |
The morning session shows how you can calculate; easily, quickly, efficiently and accurately even from a bill of quantities. Our instructor led course will demonstrate how small, medium and large civil companies will save valuable estimating and administration time using Quest’s powerful estimating technologies.
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Limited seats available! |
The afternoon session will demonstrate how you can start saving your valuable time and money measuring and cost estimating from Quest’s innovative estimating packages.
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Where and When
Position partners hold quest demo days in your city on the following days.
| Brisbane | 24 October | Register now |
| Melbourne | 21 November | Register now |
Training Sessions
Quest Business Solutions also invites new and current users to Quest “Training Sessions”. The Quest “Training Sessions” are divided into four days, providing product specific information and advanced training.
Please note Training is provided free to Gold Partners on a single seat arrangement. However additional seats can be purchased.
Limited seats available!
DAY 1: QUEST EARTHWORK: Quantify bulk earthworks and sub grade materials (Earthmovers of all types)
- Discover techniques to calculate volumes quickly and accurately.
- Learn how EARTHWORK uses bore log information to calculate sub strata quantities.
- Use EARTHWORK many visual aids to verify scope of work and validate job costs.
DAY 2: INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL ESTIMATING: Quantity takeoff and job costing (Civil / Underground Utilities)
- Learn the valuable techniques using digital plan file (.pdf, CAD, bitmap, etc.) to perform quantity takeoffs.
- See the true value of first principle estimating; learn how to develop unit rates based on production times.
- Discover how to develop custom margins and spread across all or portions of the estimate.
DAY 3: QUEST ESTIMATOIN: Introduction to building and sub-trade estimating (Commercial & Residential Builders /Sub-Trades)
- Learn how to use Quest takeoff capabilities to review plan revision and print to scale or email for client review.
- Customized Quest to fit the way you do business, from estimate views to renaming columns headings.
- Discover how Quest can provide accurate timely reports for ordering material, reviewing labour and equipment cost and much more.
DAY 4: ADVANCED ESTIMATING TRAINING: (All advanced users of Quest Estimating Systems)
- Develop a cost catalogue from scratch; realize the time saving advantages of centralizing company cost info.
- Understand the advantages of the Invitation to Bid module for vetting subcontractors and supplier material rates.
- Learn advanced cost coding features including: working with bills of quantities and generating client proposals.
- Take advantage of the powerful Bid Day feature and learn how to manage tender submissions.
- Reduce time, increase profitability with Quest Estimating Software.


