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.

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 10|8 pages

PREDICTING FUTURE ESCALATION

chapter 12|10 pages

ESTIMATING A REVAMP PROJECT

part II|272 pages

COST CONTROL

chapter 13|8 pages

INTRODUCTION TO COST CONTROL

chapter 20|12 pages

PROJECT CHANGES

chapter 27|6 pages

THE COST OF COST CONTROL

chapter 29|8 pages

CONTROL OF BULK MATERIALS

part III|60 pages

CASE STUDIES

chapter |-215 pages

CASE STUDIES