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Structured RIB Candy learning through Best Training
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If you are new to RIB Candy, expanding your existing knowledge or developing someone in your team, formal training provides a structured route through the software and the working methods behind it.
Formal RIB Candy training is offered online through Best Training, which manages the programme and booking process.
RIB Candy Assist supports this training route while keeping the formal programme and its administration clearly separate.
Who is formal RIB Candy training for?
The training can be relevant to construction professionals who use — or are preparing to use — RIB Candy in areas such as estimating, planning and project control.
This may include:
- Estimators
- Quantity surveyors
- Planners
- Construction managers
- Commercial and contracts personnel
- Young construction professionals
- Contractor team members being introduced to RIB Candy
It can also provide employers with a structured starting point before staff move into continued workplace application or mentoring.
What can RIB Candy training cover?
The training material can address a broad range of estimating, pricing and planning tasks.
Bill of Quantities and estimating
Topics may include:
- Setting up the Bill of Quantities for pricing
- Understanding and using resources
- Building resource-based rates
- Creating and using a rate-build-up library
- Working with complex resources
- Using price codes
- Building pricing macros
- Using previous jobs as a basis for current work
- Worksheets and rate build-ups
- Adjudicators
- Pricing BoQs where selling rates already exist
Tender pricing
Training may also cover:
- Indirect costs, preliminaries and general items
- Priced activity lists
- Structured tender-pricing methodology
- Reviewing and finalising tender pricing
Planning and programme integration
Relevant topics include:
- The RIB Candy planning module
- A structured approach to preparing a construction programme
- Linking the BoQ and programme
- Linking and forecasting information
The exact programme content should be confirmed against the current Best Training course when booking.
The exact programme content should be confirmed against the current Best Training course when booking.
Learning the method, not only the software
RIB Candy works best when the user understands the construction and commercial reasoning behind what is being entered.
For example, resource-based estimating is not simply a different way of typing in a rate.
The estimator needs to understand the labour, materials, plant, productivity and other assumptions that make up the cost.
Likewise, planning is more useful when programme activities connect with the resources and information produced during estimating.
Our approach is to connect the software function with the construction task it is there to support.
Training is the starting point
Formal training provides structured knowledge, but workplace competence develops through continued application.
After training, some users may need:
- Focused help with a particular RIB Candy task
- Guidance while applying the method to live work
- Support implementing consistent processes across a team
For those situations, explore our On-Demand Training and Workplace Mentoring options.
Book formal RIB Candy training
Formal training bookings are managed through Best Training.
Use the Best Training website to view the current programme and booking information.