Barlines Rebar Estimating & Detailing

During the nearly forty years that Barlines Rebar Estimating & Detailing, Inc. had been providing rebar estimating and detailing, they have always been the go-to engineers when Sales Dept. is targeting a certain project or when ENGINEERING has a project that has gone astray. Unique in the industry, Barlines once was contracted by Fontana Steel of S... outhern California to exclusively do all their estimating and detailing. For five years Fontana Steel had their best years ever until they became desirable for CMC to acquire them. During the five years Fontana had access to a large database collected by Barlines according to Bidders, Design Engineers, Categories and Bid Results. With Barlines Predictive Analytics they were able to target iconic jobs all over the state - from the Muni Metro Projects in San Francisco to the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Being among the early subscribers of Applied Systems Associates they have contributed a few innovations of their own, such as Concrete Mensurations. To date, they are among the few that not only take-off rebar, but also reports on number of Pours, Cages, Conc SF, and Conc LF. Making this factor available, allowed them to compare current estimates against similar estimates by similar design engineers - so as to have a tangible check on accuracy. These same factors also allowed anyone pricing field labor to know not only average bar size but also density of rebar in a given concrete. When introduced over 35 years ago, Bethlehem Steel proclaimed it as the best contribution in rebar estimating. Currently, Barlines is the rebar estimator for Shimmick/FCC/Imprgilo JV on the GERALD DESMOND BRDIGE REPLACEMENT in Long Beach, California, a Design/Build mega project, expected to be more than 20,000 rebar Tons. They function as estimators for phases ready for bid solicitations and reviews all Change Orders from CMC and GERDAU. In the last ten years alone, they have not started but have been called to get the rebar detailing in numerous projects in-line and on track into ...Read More