ABSTRACT
This thoroughly rewritten and updated third edition offers comprehensive coverage of cost engineering, emphasizing capital projects and focusing on both estimating and cost control. Maintaining and enhancing the style of presentation that made the previous editions so popular, Applied Cost Engineering, Third Edition furnishes an entirely new and cost-effective approach to estimating and controlling contingency, a new chapter on systems and computer applications, a new chapter on bulk material control, expanded coverage of the factors that affect estimate accuracy, an introduction to the concept of estimate and schedule classification, additional end-of-text case studies, and much more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|14 pages
INTRODUCTION TO COST ENGINEERING
part I|128 pages
COST ESTIMATING
chapter 2|10 pages
ESTIMATE ACCURACY
chapter 3|14 pages
ESTIMATING APPROACHES/CLASSES
chapter 4|22 pages
ESTIMATING METHODS
chapter 5|8 pages
COMPUTERIZED ESTIMATING
chapter 6|12 pages
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
chapter 7|14 pages
INDIRECT COSTS
chapter 8|10 pages
DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT
chapter 9|10 pages
ESTIMATE CODING AND DOCUMENTATION
chapter 10|8 pages
PREDICTING FUTURE ESCALATION
chapter 11|8 pages
CONTINGENCY–A PROVISION FOR UNCERTAINTIES
chapter 12|10 pages
ESTIMATING A REVAMP PROJECT
part II|272 pages
COST CONTROL
chapter 13|8 pages
INTRODUCTION TO COST CONTROL
chapter 14|14 pages
THE COST ENGINEER AS PART OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
chapter 15|16 pages
COST CONTROL DURING CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING
chapter 16|8 pages
COST CONTROL DURING DETAILED ENGINEERING: INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM
chapter 17|14 pages
COST CONTROL DURING DETAILED ENGINEERING: ENGINEERING COSTS
chapter 18|8 pages
COST CONTROL DURING DETAILED ENGINEERING: EQUIPMENT PURCHASES
chapter 19|12 pages
COST CONTROL DURING DETAILED ENGINEERING: BULK MATERIALS
chapter 20|12 pages
PROJECT CHANGES
chapter 21|8 pages
SUBCONTRACT DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATION, AND CONTROL
chapter 22|10 pages
COST CONTROL DURING CONSTRUCTION: THE FIRST THREE STEPS
chapter 23|24 pages
COST CONTROL DURING CONSTRUCTION: FORECASTING DIRECT FIELD LABOR
chapter 24|20 pages
COST CONTROL DURING CONSTRUCTION: ITEMS OTHER THAN DIRECT FIELD LABOR
chapter 25|12 pages
THE MONTHLY COST REPORT AND COST CONTROL MEETINGS
chapter 26|28 pages
SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
chapter 27|6 pages
THE COST OF COST CONTROL
chapter 28|4 pages
SELECTING A CONTRACTOR FOR A REIMBURSABLE-TYPE CONTRACT
chapter 29|8 pages
CONTROL OF BULK MATERIALS
part III|60 pages
CASE STUDIES