CET495-496: Civil Engineering Capstone: Cost Estimating

Contains up-to-date material and labor costs for thousands of cost items, based on the latest national averages and standard labor productivity rates. Includes detailed regional cost modifiers for adjusting your estimate to your local conditions.

Covers all the skills the beginning student needs to estimate simple to moderately complex commercial and residential buildings.

Construction estimatingwith tips, checklists, worksheets, data tables, and step-by-step tutorials for the estimating process. Focuses on "how-to" essentials with visual examples and a strong focus on key factors affecting profit, such as marketing, bid planning, drawing review, scope planning, quantity take-off, pricing, quote evaluation, cost summary, and bid closing for all trades and divisions.

Complete guide to estimating accurately and bidding wisely. Along with information vital to the craft of estimating and bidding, readers are shown a path they can travel out of the competitive bid rat race and the cranking out of endless free bids to working on a Cost Planning (aka Negotiated Bid) basis.

This Third edition has been updated with the latest in green building technologies, design concepts, standards, and costs. The chapters, case studies, and resources give readers practical guidance on green building, including the latest on green building approaches, materials, rating systems, standards and guidelines.

Focuses on industrial process plants and enables the contractor, subcontractor, and engineer to use methods, models, procedures, formats, and technical data for developing industrial process plant construction estimates. Devoted to labor, data collection, verification of data, coding, productivity measurement, the unit quantity model, and computer-aided cost estimating. Information on construction materials, database systems, work estimating, computer-aided estimating, detailed labor estimates, bid assurance, and detailed applications to construction.