Applied Cost Engineering

ISBN-13: 9780824798000 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 440 str.

Forrest D. Clark; Clark Clark; A. B. Lorenzoni

Opis

Offers coverage of cost engineering, emphasizing capital projects and focusing on estimating and cost control. The text provides an approach to estimating and controlling contingency. This edition contains a chapter on systems and computer applications, a chapter on bulk material control, as well as coverage of the factors that affect estimate accuracy, and more.

Spis treści

Part 1 Cost estimating: estimate accuracy, estimation approaches/classes, estimating methods, computerized estimating, labour productivity, indirect costs, data collection and management, estimate coding and documentation, predicting future escalation, contingency a provision for uncertainties, estimating a revamp project. Part 2 Cost control: introduction to cost control, the cost engineer as part of project management, cost control during conceptual engineering, cost control during detailed engineering - introduction to the problem, cost control during engineering - engineering costs, cost control during detailed engineering - equipment purchases, cost control during detailed engineering - bulk materials, project changes, subcontract development, administration and control, cost control during construction - the first three steps, cost control during construction - forecasting direct field labour, cost control during construction - items other than direct field labour, the monthly cost report and cost control meetings, systems and computer applications, the cost of cost control, selecting a contractor for a reimbursable-type contract, control of bulk materials. Part 3 Case studies.

O autorze

Clark, Forrest; Lorenzoni, A.B.