Estimating in Building Construction is both a popular text for students and a valuable reference for construction professionals.
Everything needed
for a course in Estimating is provided in this proven text, which
combines coverage of principles with step-by-step procedures.
Ideal for construction, architecture, and engineering students, it
reflects the popular approach of tracing a complete project's
progress. The use of computers as a key estimating tool is
incorporated throughout.
Features:
- NEW-WinEstimator CD with
each copy of the book-Enables students to develop good
computer-based estimating skills through the use of powerful
software; includes practice spreadsheets on the CD.
- Gives students hands-on
practice with tools used on the job.
- NEW-Revised and upgraded
illustration program.
- Keeps students up to date
on the latest equipment and developments, and helps them
understand material more clearly.
- NEW-Coverage of new methods
and materials.
- Keeps students up to date
on the latest developments in the field.
- Complete, book-long case
studies for follow-through of both commercial and residential
buildings.
- Shows students the
application of the material to real situations in the
field.
- Interrelationship between
contract documents and the quantity take-off of material is
examined.
- Shows students the
application of the material to real situations in the
field.
Estimating in Building
Construction, 6th Edition - Table of Contents:
- Introduction to Estimating
- Contracts, Bonds, and
Insurance
- Specifications
- The Estimate
- Computer-Assisted
Estimating
- Overhead and Contingencies
- Labor
- Equipment
- Excavation
- Concrete
- Masonry
- Metals
- Wood
- Thermal and Moisture
Protection
- Doors and Windows
- Finishes
- Electrical
- Plumbing
- Heating, Ventilating, and
Air-Conditioning
- Profit
- Appendix A: Drawings and
Outline Specifications of a Small Commercial Building
- Appendix B: Drawings and
Outline Specifications of a Residence
- Appendix C: Drawings and
Outline Specifications of a Small Commercial Building
- Appendix D: Common Terms Used
in the Building Industry
- Appendix E: Conversions
- Appendix F: Spreadsheets on
the CD
- Index
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