Estimating Building Costs: 11 (Civil and Environmental Engineering) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824740866 ISBN 13: 9780824740863

Publisher: CRC Press, 2003

Synopsis

Companies live or die on the basis of estimating their costs. Preparing estimates and bidding for new jobs is a complex and often costly process. There is no substitute for on the job training -- until now. Drawing on the authors' combined experience of more than 70 years, Estimating Building Costs presents state-of-the-art principles, practices, and techniques for assessing these expenditures that can be applied regardless of changes in the costs of materials, equipment, and labor. The book is an efficient and practical tool for developing contracts or controlling project costs. The authors cover the major components of the direct cost: estimating procedures and cost trends related to materials, construction equipment, and skilled and unskilled labor. They describe various types of building estimates encountered during the lifecycle of a project, as well as the role and accuracy of each. The book provides an overview of the industry, cost indexes in use, approaches to preparing a detailed estimate, and an in-depth description of the organization and function of the estimating group. Including CSI Master Format and UniFormat codes, estimating forms, a list of available estimating software packages, a detailed construction site and investigation report, the book provides a cost estimating methodology that readers can tailor to their own organizational needs.

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About the Author

Calin M.Popescu (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.), Kan Phaobunjong (Turner Construction Company Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) and Nuntapong Ovararin (King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand)

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824740866
• ISBN 13: 9780824740863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Popescu Calin M., Phaobunjong Kan, Ovararin Nuntapong