Kathy Case
Kathy Case, founder, Quantify North America, started her career in 1979 with a commercial tile contractor that performed complex ceramic tile, terrazzo and stone including olympic swimming pools, sand cushion terrazo, marble slab walls and floors. She developed her skills of reading and interpreting contract drawings through her work as a ceramic tile installer, a project manager, a salesperson, and an executive manager.
After 15 years, she expanded her skills to include all flooring types. During this time, she was a member of the Construction Specifications Institute where she learned the challenge that spec writers had to release bid documents quickly. Through the relationships built at CSI, she recognized the need for speciality trades to take the responsibility of filling the gaps between the specs and industry practices; this led to her focus on estimating in 2009. Over the next 10 years, she worked for prominent flooring contractors during which time she became familiar with different ways that contracts go to market. In 2019, after managing teams of estimators, she developed this estimating service.
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