Building Cost Estimating

Principles and Practices

By: Joseph Macaluso

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Designed for undergraduate and continuing education construction cost estimating courses, as well as courses with a cost estimating component. It is designed to work with the sixteen sessions in a typical college-level course, with a topic devoted to each session. It covers quantity takeoffs, preliminary estimates, detailed estimates, estimating for specific trades, change order estimates, and other types of estimates, while addressing the latest technology in building estimating. Unlike other texts, it addresses cost estimating not only from the contractor's perspective, but also from the owner's perspective. Each topic includes American Council on Construction Education-based learning objectives that apply to construction cost estimating. At the end of each topic are review questions; several topics include internet addresses or QR codes that provide the student with additional information about that topic. It delivers practical information backed with helpful examples, illustrations, and charts. The book is complete with a table of contents and an index for easy referencing. Additional resources are available for instructors and students. Available from the Frank R. Walker Company, publishers of the Walker's Building Estimator's Reference Book, which has been published and updated since 1915, the textbook is available in print and eBook formats.