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Bidding and Estimating Procedures for Construction

Name: Bidding and Estimating Procedures for Construction
Author: G. L. Mansfield
ISBN: 9780835904742

by G. L. Mansfield

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Overview

Offering a good blend of the estimating process and quantity take-off procedures, this new edition is suitable for students, beginning estimators, project managers, and constructors who need an overview of traditional and computer-based estimating practice. The estimate is one of the cornerstones of the construction process and it must be correctly organized, prepared, and presented—often within a short period of time. This book will help estimators meet the demands of the job in a professional and timely manner.

Key features of this new edition include:

A chapter on computerized estimating.
Coverage of the bonding process.
Comprehensive coverage ranging from the selection of projects and the decision to bid through quantity take-off, pricing, and marketing.
Well illustrated with charts, graphs, and drawings to work from.
Metric conversions provided to assist readers who are now working in metric.

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Johnston (California Polytech U.) and Mansfield provide an overview of traditional and computer-based estimating practices for construction. Coverage includes bonding, bid strategy, bid selection and the decision to bid; preliminary procedures; prebid communication; procedures for taking off quantities from drawings (for sitework, concrete and formwork, masonry, miscellaneous metals and structural steel, and rough and finished carpentry); pricing the estimate; estimating site overhead costs; closing the bid; and computerized construction estimating. Appendices contain the Construction Specifications Institute Format, formulas to calculate areas of plane figures and volumes of solid figures, and metric conversions. CD-ROM included with text. Suitable for students, beginning estimators, project managers and constructors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)