Construction Estimating

Construction Estimating

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Construction Estimating This unusually well-organized book shows the best and easiest way to estimate materials for room additions or residential structures. It gives estimating tables and procedures needed to make a fast, accurate, and complete material list of the structural members found in wood and steel-framed buildings. This book is divided into 72 units, each of them covering a separate element in the estimating procedure. Covers estimating foundations, floor framing, wall framing, ceiling framing, roof framing, roofing materials, exterior and interior finish materials, hardware, steel joist floor framing, steel stud framing, and steel ceiling joist and rafter framing. $49.50	Cost Records for Construction Estimating How to organize and use cost information from jobs just completed to make more accurate estimates in the future. Explains how to keep the records you need to track costs for sitework, footings, foundations, framing, interior finish, siding and trim, masonry, and subcontract expense. Provides sample forms. $15.75
Architects Contractors Engineers Guide to Construction Costs - 2008 Edition Published by: BNi Building News ISBN: 1588550761 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 0.90 lbs. This unique resource contains both the detailed cost coverage for all construction items as well as Quick Estimating Sections and Square Foot costs for preliminary estimates and conceptual budgets. The metropolitan area cost modifiers have been greatly expanded in this year's edition to cover virtually every region of the country. $51.95	Construction Estimating Reference Data Provides the 300 most useful manhour tables for practically every item of construction. Labor requirements are listed for sitework, concrete work, masonry, steel, carpentry, thermal and moisture protection, door and windows, finishes, mechanical and electrical. Each section details the work being estimated and gives appropriate crew size and equipment needed. Includes a CD-ROM with an electronic version of the book with National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows™ estimating program, plus an interactive multimedia video that shows how to use the disk to compile construction cost estimates $39.50
Estimating and Bidding for Builders & Remodelers Free Shipping on this item! Here is all the information you need for estimating and bidding construction and home improvement projects. Explains what you need for a career as a construction estimator, how to construct a take-off from the plans, how to check the details of an estimate, prepare a schedule, deal with subs, and calculate project overhead and profit. Also covers how to estimate remodeling work for typical remove and replace jobs, and include markup for remodeling work. Explains how to profit from estimating commercial work. Includes the National Estimator stand-alone estimating program with a 50,000 item database for residential, commercial, and home improvement work. A video tutorial, and a program that lets you export completed estimates into QuickBooks Pro for job costing, or progressive billing. Other Craftsman databases are compatible and available by download on the Web. Contains the database of the National Construction Estimator and the National Home Improvement Estimator. $69.50	Estimating Home Building Costs Estimate every phase of residential construction from site costs to the profit margin you include in your bid. Shows how to keep track of manhours and make accurate labor cost estimates for footings, foundations, framing and sheathing finishes, electrical, plumbing, and more. Provides and explains sample cost estimate worksheets with complete instructions for each job phase. $17.00
Estimating With Microsoft Excel Most builders estimate with Excel because it's easy to learn, quick to use, and can be customized to your style of estimating. Here you'll find step-by-step how to create your own customized automated spreadsheet estimating program for use with Excel. You'll learn how to use the magic of Excel in creating detail sheets, cost breakdown summaries, and linking. You'll put this all to use in estimating concrete, rebar, permit fees, and roofing. You can even create your own macros. Includes a CD-ROM that illustrates examples in the book and provides you with templates you can use to set up your own estimating system. $39.95	Standard Estimating Practice Published by: BNI ISBN: 1-55701-481-7 506 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 2.56 lbs Free Shipping on this item! Estimating isn't always an easy job. Sometimes snap decisions can produce negative long-term effects. This book was designed by the American Society of Professional Estimators as a set of standards to guide professional estimators. It's intended to help every estimator develop estimates that are uniform and verifiable. Every step that should be included in the estimate is listed, as well as aspects in the plans to consider when estimating a job and what you should look for that may not be included. The result should help you produce more consistently accurate estimates. $87.95
Estimating Home Construction Costs Published by: NAHB ISBN: 0-867186151 116 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 1.00 lbs This second edition of a best-seller contains new sample floor plans and elevations, new worksheets and checklists, and conversion tables to help you estimate more accurately. Here you’ll find tips and techniques to improve your estimating skills and improve your quantity takeoffs. Includes the different types of estimating techniques and when it’s best to use each of them. Provides tips and formulas for figuring quantities for your estimates. You’ll also learn procedures for integrating estimating with cost control, purchasing, and scheduling. Explains techniques for maintaining a database that will facilitate your future estimates.—whether you estimate by computer or by pen and paper. $28.95	Defensive Estimating Published by: NAHB ISBN: 086718-620-8 142 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 1.00 lbs More than a few residential builders and remodelers have walked away from closings with less profit then they deserve. You may get the job, but find out later you needed to make a lot more money on it. Performed correctly, estimating is a small builder's or remodeler's key to profit. Here you'll find how to estimate based on fiscal goals while protecting your company's bottom line. This unique approach to estimating gives readers user-friendly tips and methods for improving the process and providing hundreds of ideas and simple suggestions. Explains how to defend each line of an estimate so that your system of planned profit is consistent and bankable $28.95