Construction Cost Engineering Handbook

Anghel Patrascu

Part I: Project Economics 1. Project Economics 2. The Life of a Project 3. Project Organization 4. Integrated Cost Engineering Part II: Construction Cost Engineering 5. Estimate Checklist 6. Types of Estimates and Estimating Methods 7. The Detailed or Definitive Estimate 8. Contingency, Allowances, and Escalation Part III: Cost Control and Forecasting 9. Implementing a Cost-Control System 10. Budgets 11. Cost Control 12. Cost Forecasting Part IV: Planning and Scheduling 13. Planning and Scheduling 14. The Bar Chart 15. The Critical Path Method 16. Project Evaluation and Review Technique and the Precedence-Diagram Method 17. Schedule Development 18. Resource Allocation 19. Time Control 20. Progress Reports Part V: Data Bank 21. Data Development 22. Storage and Retrieval of Data 23. Lessons to be Learned Part VI: The Future of Cost Engineering 24. Computer Applications 25. Teaching Cost Engineering