Thursday, April 26, 2012

Building Cost Estimating, Planning, Controlling and Reducing

Building Cost Estimating, Planning, Controlling and Reducing

Building Cost Estimating, Planning, Controlling and Reducing

Authors

Building Cost Techniques
Edited by P.S.Brandon
Published in UK by E.& F.N.Spon Ltd., London, 1982.
I had come across this in our institue library and this prompted me to initiate this knol as now I have an interest in this domain now.My brother is working in a senior position in this industry.

Estimating Building Costs

 By Calin Popescu, Kan Phaobunjong, Nuntapong Ovararin


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.

More details

Estimating Building Costs
By Calin Popescu, Kan Phaobunjong, Nuntapong Ovararin
Published by CRC Press, 2003
ISBN 0824740866, 9780824740863
743 pages

Contents

2
specialty contractors, hazardous waste, ENR Top
10
Consumer Price Index, Historical Cost, structural steel
27
HVAC, performance bond, Albany
34
TXDOT, CAMP MABRY, Gypsum
45
labor productivity, subcontractor, quantity take off
52
quantity surveyor, labor productivity, Historical cost
more »
131
Backhoe loader, compacting operations, Book Value
157
quantity survey, liquidated damage, bidding document
172
Volume Computation, wellpoint, topsoil
215
precast concrete, Portland cement, concrete masonry units
316
A36 steel, shop drawings, purlins
353
balloon framing, platform framing, plywood
393
asphalt shingles, Wood Shingles, polyisocyanurate
416
float glass, Hearst Communications, mullions
448
Portland cement, drywall, joint compound
553
piping materials, Vitrified clay pipe, polyvinyl chloride
572
Cable tray, branch circuit, light fixtures
589
Sieve analysis, Jobbing production, laydown
628
builder's risk insurance, surety bond, Medicare
651
MASTERFORMAT, Georgia Avenue, Cost Data Means
704
Water table, Tvne of service, tvnp Ipnoth
723
Kingston, Englewood Cliffs, R.S. Means Company


Value Engineering in Building - Building Cost Reduction
A Recent Research Paper (2007)
A building cost estimation model based on functional elements
Hakan YAMAN, Elçin TAŞ
Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Turkey
You can download it from
http://www.az.itu.edu.tr/downloads/papers/vol04-01/pdf/08yaman-%2004n1.pdf
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