Construction Estimating
James J. Adrian, Ph.D., PE, CPA


This book is a comprehensive presentation of construction estimating.  The book includes productivity, and costing principles as well as the technical aspects of estimating to include quantify take-off.  Overhead and profit strategies are presented as well as computer applications.  This book is widely used by universities for teaching students estimating.  In addition, it is used by practitioners for upgrading their estimating procedures and accuracy.   The eighteen chapters are followed by exercises that enable the reader to evaluate their understanding of the principles covered in each chapter.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1:  Construction Estimating: Its Importance to the Construction Industry
  • Chapter 2:  Productivity Records: Ways to Determine Standards for Construction Estimating
  • Chapter 3:  Cost Accounting Terminology and Construction Estimating
  • Chapter 4:  Project Owner's Estimate
  • Chapter 5:  Pre-Construction Design Estimate
  • Chapter 6:  Overview of the Detailed Estimate
  • Chapter 7:  Quantity Surveying: Fundamentals for Taking Off Quantities
  • Chapter 8:  How to Determine Direct Costs for the Project
  • Chapter 9:  Integrating Estimating with Project Planning and Control:  A Project System
  • Chapter 10: Sitework and Excavation
  • Chapter 11:Concrete Forming, Reinforcement, and Placement
  • Chapter 12: Masonry Work: Brick and Block
  • Chapter 13: Structural Steel
  • Chapter 14: Carpentry Work
  • Chapter 15: Miscellaneous Work and Specialty Work
  • Chapter 16: Project and Company Overhead
  • Chapter 17: Determination of Contractor Profit
  • Chapter 18: Computers and Estimating
  • Appendix A and B

$57.95 Hardcover, 536 pp.  1993
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