Muthuveerappan Chockalingam
Thorold,Canada
Summary
Experienced and highly driven Construction management professional with 9+ years of experience in the Construction & Architecture industry. Majorly worked in ICI, Residential, D&B Corporate Interiors, and Urban scale projects (Metro Rail, Gas stations, and Toll Plazas) Along with Various PMC.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Estimator
Home Hardware Ltd
06.2023 - Current
- Estimating for residential, agricultural, small scale commercial buildings for Home Hardware’s – Beaver Home and Cottage vertical all across Canada
- Estimating includes all structural Lumber framing, Exterior and Interior Finishes as per detail drawings and manufacturer specifications
- Preparing and maintaining a directory of suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, and subcontractors
- Constantly collecting and updating pricing for various materials from Vendors and Manufacturers
- Read and analyze Install manual/guide of various manufacturers on a day-to-day basis to provide accurate estimates and take offs
- Liaising, consulting, and communicating with engineers, architects, owners, contractors, and subcontractors on changes and adjustments to cost estimates
- Managing and coordinating construction projects for estimation
- Study and analyze blueprints /plans and specifications
- Ask for owner / stores / architects’ budget, and do preliminary budget estimate reference, based on S.F, or historical data
- Coordinate with Vendors/ Manufacturers for special order items to get accurate pricing
- Deal with the RFI’s internally and from home Hardware stores/ Client
- Ability to work on unit-rate tenders and ability to perform take off in direct relation to the units
- Ability to recap, price, and extend quantity take off
- The reading, understanding, and distribution off all addenda
- Ability to build a preliminary tender schedule based on the major and long delivery dates and review with the store and clients
- Ability to identify risk, or opportunity avenues
- Implementation of Pipeline LBM along with Plan Swift as an estimating Tool for the Entire estimation team of Home Hardware
- With the knowledge of Softplan Designing Tool helping design team in creating SoftList take offs from 3D Drawings
- With the expertise in various estimating tools have been helping the estimating team to do take off with Blue Beam, Soft Plan, Planswift
- Most of the estimates done in Home Hardware prior to my days where manual, have contributed majorly to digitize take off and estimates which reduces the lead time for estimates and take off and to provide more accurate estimates
- With the knowledge and expertise in structural aspect of residential construction Providing value added insights on the structural aspects of the drawings to the designers and clients
- Building standard estimates for over 100 stock plans (ADU’S , Cottages, Loft Garages) under beaver home and cottages.
Estimator/Designer/coordinator
M&M Consultants
01.2019 - Current
- Partner and Principal Designer/Drafter providing drafting/designing services for BCIN Licensed Designers, Architects, Builders & Private projects across the Niagara region
- Drafting for residential and small-scale commercial buildings as per OBC norm; measured and drafted over 310,000 sq
- Ft with clear knowledge of OBC & CCDC Contracts
- Providing Site Plan renderings and 3D renderings services
- Estimation & Project Coordination for residential & commercial projects across various sub-trades
- Currently registered for BCIN and pursuing to get the license
- Project Coordination, estimation, permit paperwork, contract administration, and project management services
- Restaurants, and Residential Projects
- Coordinated and estimated over 200,000 SqFt in the 2 years
- Interior Design - Concept designs, 3D Visualizations, Material selection, and coordination for various Residential, office spaces, and Restaurants.
Estimator/EWP Designer
Stark Lumber
05.2021 - 05.2023
- Design and estimate Engineered Wood Products and trusses for residential and commercial construction in the Niagara region
- Provide permit paperwork and specifications in line with O.B.C for builders and get approval from the city
- Coordinate with other trades and provide value engineering and solutions for new and renovation projects
- Design engineered wood products such as I-joist, wood beams and connectors into residential and commercial blueprints
- Provide customer support answering questions about personal designs and/or other team member designs
- Identify and recommend the best products to customers for their specific job application
- Utilize provided design software (Mitek Structures, EWP Studio) to interpret residential and commercial blueprints into structural placement estimate plans
- Respond to customer and associate inquiries as needed to sell, train, and support engineered wood products
- Creates detailed engineered drawings and marked up plans for residential and light commercial construction projects
- Utilize software and tools like Mitek structures, Forteweb, EWP Studio, Microsoft Excel, Office, PDF Editor
- Collaborate with sales staff, architects, and project managers to develop design plans
- Ability to assess specifications and offer Value Engineered options and present it to various builders and homeowners in order to save cost
- Provide technical support and guidance to construction teams during the building phase
- Answer product questions and provide solutions for field situations
- May conduct site visits to gather information and assess project progress
- Performs quantity take off to provide detailed material/ship list and estimates
- Ask for owner / stores / architects’ budget, and do preliminary budget estimate reference, based on S.F, or historical data
- Estimate All framing lumber for residential and commercial projects with respect to architectural drawings, blueprints, and engineered drawing
- By being very precise and meticulous been able to provide accurate material take off and estimates
- Gather and update pricing for lumber products on a day-to-day basis
- Support front desk and sales team by providing material list and take off in a considerable lead time
- Participates in internal and external estimate reviews
- Coordination: communicates, organizes, and coordinates between all internal and external stakeholders
- Planning/Executing: organizes, schedules, coordinates, initiates upcoming project work
- Budgeting: understands and maintains budgets and forecasts
- Scheduling: understands, reviews, tracks progress, and communicates progress to managers and team members
- Technical: works with project personnel; reviews and understands project drawings and specifications; drafts and understand technical project documents and contract correspondence
- Change Management reviews and evaluates all aspects of estimates, contract scope changes or extra work orders
- Quality Management: understands, participates in quality management system
- Administrative: organization and administrative duties as required.
Project Coordinator/Estimator
Brock Builders Inc
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Coordination and estimation for various Residential projects across Niagara, Burlington, and Oakville regions
- Majorly involved in Project coordination, estimation & takeoffs Conceptual design, Client relations, Vendor management, Bidding & negotiation procedures, contract administration, and Site Management of various residential projects
- Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures
- Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings
- Ensuring project deadlines are met
- Determining project changes
- Providing administrative support as needed
- Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
- Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective
- Carefully reviewing and examining data and documents such as analysis reports
- Collecting and gathering the information that will be used to produce project estimates
- Coming up with correct and accurate cost information that is required for construction projects
- Completing full take-offs of quantities for Divisions 1 to 16
- Provide material list take off on all framing, interior and exterior finishes
- Coordinate and negotiate with vendors to get timely and the best price possible
- Provide preliminary budget pricing to clients based on sf pricing and historical data
- Planning and organizing and estimating work assignments, as well as other tasks as required
- Visiting project sites and attending pre-bid meetings.
Project Architect & Coordinator
Decon Architects
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Project Architect / Coordinator for multiple D&B corporate office interior, residential, hospitality, recreational, and ICI Projects of over 1M Sqft which involves end-to-end Estimation & Bidding, Designing, Detailing, and Coordination of execution
- Was well recognized for precise project management and coordination
- Managed projects in collaboration with PMC like CBRE, JLL, Knight Frank, Cushman & Wakefield
- Meeting with clients/builders & contractors to determine requirements of projects
- Determined the feasibility of the project and prepared cost estimates
- Performing original design work utilizing specifications, sketches, and ideas on developing designs
- Analyzing space utilization effectiveness and changing demands for space needs, recommending actions to meet new requirements
- Compiling data for architectural plans, specifications, cost estimates, reports, and preparation for plans for existing buildings where plans are not available
- Conducting preliminary studies of proposed projects to obtain information as to space and design requirements, obtaining measurements, and making sketches preliminary to the preparation of drawing
- Preparing scale drawing for contract drawing and further preparing design development drawings
- Preparing layouts and drawing a preliminary sketch of a project to present it to the client
- Developing and coordinating the development of detailed working drawings and specifications after approval for the project has been obtained
- Reviewing shop drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and construction material recommendations submitted by contractors to ensure adherence to contract and notify the Senior Architect of any discrepancies
- Monitoring work of the contractor, verifying specified materials are being used, dimensions are as drawn, and quality is maintained as per the contract
- Providing support to Architects and management staff as and when needed.
Project Architect/Coordinator
Rajendran Associates
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Architect / Coordinator for NMRCL (Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited) N-S corridor of 9 Metro stations of value $350Million USD
- Preparing layouts, drawing, preliminary sketches for projects to be presented to the client
- Developing and coordinating the development of detailed working drawings and specifications after approval for the project has been obtained
- Meeting with clients/builders & contractors to determine requirements of projects
- Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
- Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings
- Ensuring project deadlines are met
- Determining project changes
- Providing administrative support as needed
- Estimated and Coordinated the Bidding of the 9 Metro Rail Stations (1.5M Sf)
- Coordinate and negotiate with vendors to get timely and the best price possible
- Managed the work of Estimation and Bidding, Preliminary design, detailed design, tender drawings, detailed estimations, coordination with other consultants, working drawing, GFC, and coordination drawings.
Education
Post Grad in Construction Project Management - Construction Management
Centennial College
Scarborough, ON12.2019
Bachelor’s in architecture - Architecture Studies
SRM University
Chennai, India05.2015
Skills
- MS Office 365
- MS Projects
- AutoCAD
- SketchUp
- Autodesk Revit
- Google Suite
- Procore
- Blue Beam
- Photoshop
- MiTek Structures
- Softplan
- Plan Swift
- Pipeline LBM
- Wood Works
- Co-Construct
- ForteWeb
- JeldWen
- Kohltech
- EWP Studio from Simpson
- Regal Ideas Design Tool
- Lumion
Accomplishments
- Estimated and engineered over 800 Projects in Canada from Jan 2018 to Present.
- Designed, coordinated, estimated over 3M SqFt Since 2015 to Present.
- Implementing PipeLine LBM from Simpson Strong-Tie as an estimating tool For Home Hardware.
- Budding Architect of the Year - Decon Architects (2017)
References
References will be provided upon request.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Senior Estimator
Home Hardware Ltd
06.2023 - Current
Estimator/EWP Designer
Stark Lumber
05.2021 - 05.2023
Project Coordinator/Estimator
Brock Builders Inc
10.2020 - 04.2021
Estimator/Designer/coordinator
M&M Consultants
01.2019 - Current
Project Architect & Coordinator
Decon Architects
01.2017 - 12.2018
Project Architect/Coordinator
Rajendran Associates
01.2016 - 12.2016
Post Grad in Construction Project Management - Construction Management
Centennial College
Bachelor’s in architecture - Architecture Studies
SRM University
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