Marcene Taylor

President at Marcene Taylor Inc.Ms. Taylor is a specialist in conceptual cost estimating, a published essayist, national president of the American Society of Professional Estimators, and president of Marcene Taylor Inc. She began her estimating career as an apprentice at Davis Langdon in 1996, then joined HMC Architects from 2001 to 2007. She was then the principal in charge of cost planning for mack5 until 2010 when she started Marcene Taylor Inc. She has written articles for Estimating Today as well as contributed to the books Hot Jobs and Non-Traditional Careers for Women and Men. Ms. Taylor has a Certificate in Construction Project Management from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and she is a certified professional estimator. She conducts cost planning and analysis for a variety of different facility types, specializing in healthcare, educational, civic and academic facilities. Ms. Taylor specializes in early conceptual estimating to ensure that a project’s scope is achievable for the budget available, emphasizing not only the construction cost portion of the project, but also the entire project budget.