Steve Watkins

Mr. Watkins has been in the construction industry for approximately 30 years. He started in the single-family residential market sector, which led him into land development and then onto commercial estimating. Mr. Watkins has spent the past 15 years in preconstruction and commercial estimating. He has been a chief estimator and director of preconstruction leading estimating teams and departments. Currently Mr. Watkins is a senior preconstruction manager for BNBuilders in Seattle. He has been fortunate enough to have worked on all procurement types from the typical “hard bid,” to design-build, progressive design-build, GC/CM, and private negotiated GMP for vertical construction projects. Mr. Watkins is the American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE) Northwest Regional Governor and an ASPE Certified Professional Estimator (CPE).