Estimating and tendering for construction work / Martin Brook.
By: Brook, Martin.
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993Description: xvi, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0750615311 .Subject(s): Building -- Estimates | Letting of contractsDDC classification: 692.5Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 692.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00013791 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Dealing with the techniques and procedures used to build up an estimate, this book explains how an estimate is converted into a tender, from early cost studies, through to the preparation of the estimate, to the handover of construction budgets for successful tenders.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-278) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Organization of the estimating function
- Procurement paths
- Forms of contract
- Tender documentation
- Estimating methods
- Contractor selection and decision to tender
- Project appreciation
- Enquiries to suppliers and sub-contractors
- Tender planning and method statements
- Resource costs - labour, materials and plant
- Unit rate pricing
- Sub-contractors and nominated suppliers
- Fluctuations
- Provisional sums and dayworks
- Preliminaries
- Cashflow forecasts
- Completing the estimate and tender adjudication
- Tender submission and results
- Action with the successful tender
- Computer-aided estimating
- Index