This document addresses all phases of construction cost estimating from the initial start of design through modification estimates during construction. \1\UFC 3-730-01/1/ PROGRAMMING COST ESTIMATES FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION provides guidance for cost estimating during...
Construction Cost Estimating equips a new generation of students and early-career professionals with the skills they need to bid successfully on projects. From developing bid strategies to submitting a completed bid, this innovative textbook introduces the fundamentals of construction...
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,...
"The essential, authoritative guide to providing accurate, systematic, and reliable estimating for construction projects-newly revised Pricing and bidding for construction work is at the heart of every construction business, and in the minds of construction consultants' poor bids lead to...
Written for students taking courses in building and surveying, 'Estimating for Builders and Surveyors' describes and explains the method used by the estimator to build up prices or rates for items described in the SMM7 format. Each chapter is a self-contained unit related to a particular...
Process Capability Analysis: Estimating Quality presents a systematic exploration of process capability analysis and how it may be used to estimate quality. The book is designed for practitioners who are tasked with insuring a high level of quality for the products and services...
ACI 318-11 requires that the design of prestressed concrete members allow for prestress loss; however, the required level of detail for calculating losses is unspecified. The friction loss provisions for post-tensioned construction that first appeared in ACI 318-63 were removed from ACI 318-11....
Purpose With increasing transportation needs, funding limitations at both the federal and state levels, and the high cost of transportation improvement projects, it is important to have a toolbox of techniques that support accurate estimation of project costs. There is no single "right way" to...
Tested-and-proven techniques for quick, accurate estimates Here is the first manual that guides engineers, planners, and contractors through the process of estimating the cost of building water treatment facilities. Based on more than eighty years of the two authors' collective...
This book lays the foundations for the calculations for dayworks, which apply equally to the small one-man builder and the large national contractor.
It deals in a practical and reasonable way with many of the estimating problems which can arise where building and civil engineering works are carried out and to include comprehensive estimating data within the guidelines of good practice. The early part of the book has been...
The two linked Digests (309 and 310) present daylight prediction methods that can be used as a first stage in assessing the visual and energy impacts of window design and the effectiveness of daylight-linked lighting controls. Part 1 (Digest 309) covers the calculation of sky component and...