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This book is a comprehensive
presentation of construction estimating. The book includes
productivity, and costing principles as well as the technical aspects of
estimating to include quantify take-off. Overhead and profit
strategies are presented as well as computer applications. This book
is widely used by universities for teaching students estimating. In
addition, it is used by practitioners for upgrading their estimating
procedures and accuracy. The eighteen chapters are followed by
exercises that enable the reader to evaluate their understanding of the
principles covered in each chapter.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Construction Estimating: Its Importance to the
Construction Industry
- Chapter 2: Productivity Records: Ways to Determine Standards
for Construction Estimating
- Chapter 3: Cost Accounting Terminology and Construction
Estimating
- Chapter 4: Project Owner's Estimate
- Chapter 5: Pre-Construction Design Estimate
- Chapter 6: Overview of the Detailed Estimate
- Chapter 7: Quantity Surveying: Fundamentals for Taking Off
Quantities
- Chapter 8: How to Determine Direct Costs for the Project
- Chapter 9: Integrating Estimating with Project Planning and
Control: A Project System
- Chapter 10: Sitework and Excavation
- Chapter 11:Concrete Forming, Reinforcement, and Placement
- Chapter 12: Masonry Work: Brick and Block
- Chapter 13: Structural Steel
- Chapter 14: Carpentry Work
- Chapter 15: Miscellaneous Work and Specialty Work
- Chapter 16: Project and Company Overhead
- Chapter 17: Determination of Contractor Profit
- Chapter 18: Computers and Estimating
- Appendix A and B
$57.95 Hardcover, 536 pp. 1993
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