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Principles of estimating

Current practice on most contracts dictates that the engineer deals with engineering matters and the quantity surveyor covers the commercial aspects. As a result, engineers have become increasingly uneasy at setting rates, evaluating claims and of pricing work generally. This book provides engineers with commercial adeptness in price estimating.
Print Book, English, 2000
Thomas Telford ; ASCE Press [distributor], London, Reston VA, 2000
viii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780727727633, 072772763X
45690004
Estimating from first principles Building up the net price The site set-up - preliminaries Sources of prices Getting the final price - the tender and other totals Examples of estimates Cost, value and budgets Worked examples
Includes index