Estimating and Tendering for Building Work

"...my message to lecturers in building/quantity surveying is to 'put it on your course list for essential reading' and to students and practitioners 'buy it' " Building Technology & Management

Provides a practical introduction to understanding the costs encountered on a building project together with an appreciation of the many factors influencing them.

List of contents

1. Contractor selection  2. Contractual arrangements and documentation  3. The preparation of a tender  4. The cost of resources  5. Contract clauses and their effect on cost  6. Preliminaries  7. The calculation of unit rates for construction work  8. Methods of approximate estimating  9. Pro rata and analogue rates

About the author

Ronald Carl Smith

Summary

"...my message to lecturers in building/quantity surveying is to 'put it on your course list for essential reading' and to students and practitioners 'buy it' " Building Technology & ManagementProvides a practical introduction to understanding the costs encountered on a building project together with an appreciation of the many factors influencing them.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Carl Smith, Smith Ronald Carl
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138835832
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83583-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Longman Technician Series; Longman Technician; Longman Technician Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, Construction industry, Economics of industrial organisation, Building construction & materials, Building construction and materials, Economics of industrial organization, Surveying, quantity surveying, Construction and heavy industry, Quantity surveying