Chad Blind Vice President / Chief Estimator

As Chief Estimator, Chad is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the estimating, bidding and budgeting process and procedures within the Construction department. Working with Project Managers, Chad develops conceptual, preliminary and final budgets for new projects. As the design documents progress, Chad offers cost reduction strategies to keep the project on budget and constructability review comments to improve design. Chad has been involved with preconstruction and construction as a general contractor, subcontractor, and Construction Manager since graduating from Bowling Green State University. His broad experience ranges from building renovations, occupied/phased building renovations, ground-up new builds and specialized research lab fit outs.