Estimating Home Construction Costs 2nd Edition contains new sample floor plans and elevations, new worksheets and checklists and conversion tables to help readers estimate residential construction more accurately. Includes tips and techniques to improve estimating skills and improve quantity take-offs, such as different types of estimating techniques and when its best to use each of them. Provides tips and formulas for figuring quantities for estimates. Provides information about procedures for integrating estimating with cost control, purchasing and scheduling. Explains techniques for maintaining a database that will facilitate future estimates whether the estimates are created by computer or by pen and paper.
Softcover.