Construction Estimating.

Catalog description

This course is intended to provide students with the ability to estimate the cost of the various activities that constitute a construction project. Issues to be considered include contact documents, the bid-award process,types of estimates, breakdown of project, elements of the estimate, quantity take off techniques, estimating labor, material and equipment costs, use of experience tables and databases, adjustments for overhead, profit and contingencies, assembling the estimate. Considerate use will be made of spreadsheets and an industry-standard estimating computer software package.