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Tools & Software
The PHCC Overhead & Profit Calculator, developed by PHCC Educational Foundation, was made using feedback from contractors who know just what it takes to make businesses successful and profitable.
This simple tool helps business owners calculate their real costs and find the right selling price for their company. Too many contractors set their prices by guessing the price customers will pay or by comparing their pricing to those of their competitors. By not recovering their own true costs, these contractors are essentially working hard every day while putting themselves out of business.
Don’t be one of them! Thanks to a sponsorship from A.O. Smith, the software is available at no charge.
Simplify your estimating process, prepare accurate bids, and become more efficient and profitable. PHCC has partnered with Harrison Publishing House’s CINX platform to provide a comprehensive plumbing and piping database for accurate, in-depth material pricing to create your own pricing workbook.
More than 13,000 national average installation times for plumbing contractors
Cloud-based—Anywhere, Anytime
Third-party verification of labor hours
Cross-platform compatible data with a growing list of software vendors
Note: This actually integrates into a number of other software programs like FastEst and Quotesoft as well as being a standalone software.
The PHCC Water Supply Calculator App offers a single resource to determine water supply fixture units and minimum fixture branch sizes for common plumbing fixtures, typical pressure drops in water meters, equivalent lengths of fittings.
The app also allows a user to input a fixture unit demand, resulting in suggested pipe size, determines GPM demand, pressure drop/100’, and velocity in Type “L” copper pipe; with selectors referenced to the National Standard Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, and the International Plumbing Code.
In addition to the calculator, the app serves as an all-in-one membership engagement tool that allows members to directly access PHCC information and resources on their portable device.
Resources
Pipe Trade Services of Minnesota
Technology Business Interest Group
HVAC Business Interest Group
All the Foundation’s webinars on everything from Inventory Management to Construction Field Management.
The PHCC Foundation’s construction management workshops are intensive and highly interactive training sessions designed to show everyone involved in a p-h-c project (owners, senior managers, project managers, estimators, foremen and job superintendents) how common-sense changes to the way projects are managed can boost productivity, slash waste and add more profit to the company’s bottom line.
Forget the textbooks – our sessions feature instructors who have worked in our industry and focus on real-life situations attendees run into every day, not abstract theory.
Note: These are highly popular and occur in person in various locations.
More Resources
Local 539 Training Minneapolis
Quality education to all that attend the apprenticeship program along with ongoing education for the journeyman or master plumber/pipefitter. A union plumber/pipefitter is a highly skilled technician that takes great pride in the work done. Take a look and find out how you can start your career or continue your career in plumbing now!
PHCC has been an advocate for plumbing, heating and cooling contractors since 1883. As the oldest trade organization in the construction industry, approximately 4,000 members nationwide put their faith in the association’s efforts to lobby local, state and federal government, provide forums for networking and educational programs, and to deliver the highest quality of products and services
OSHA’s mission is to assure the safety and health of America’s workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health.