Repair & Remodeling Estimating

Objectives
This two-day seminar emphasizes all the underlying considerations unique to repair/remodeling estimating and presents the correct methods for generating accurate, reliable R&R project costs using the unit price and assemblies methods.

Approach
Upgrading existing, often occupied buildings can pose difficult estimating problems. Complete plans and specifications are rarely available. Considerations - like labor hours, building code compliance, the limitations of working within existing structures during both normal and off hours, purchasing materials in smaller quantities, delivery and staging of materials, and the discovery of unforeseen deficiencies - all add tremendous complexity to the task of accurate estimating. One of the major judgments an estimator has to make, for example, concerns the delays associated with maintaining existing operations within a building.

Using the techniques presented in Means' widely acclaimed Repair and Remodeling Cost Data, this seminar identifies problems and provides solutions to estimating building alterations. Attendees are given step-by-step procedures: rules for factoring in minimum labor costs, accurate productivity estimates, and allowances for project contingencies that protect R&R estimates and thus the bottom line. R&R estimating examples are calculated using unit prices and assemblies data.

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Who should attend?
Facilities Managers, Plant Engineers, Architects, Contractors, Estimators, Builders... and others who are concerned with the proper preparation and/or evaluation of repair and remodeling estimates.

Course Outline
  • Repair and Remodeling estimating challenge
  • Evaluation of the structure
  • Overhead cost for a construction company and development of contractors billing rates
  • Unit price R&R estimating - job orientation, sources of cost information, and pricing the estimate
  • Using and modifying assemblies for R&R estimating

Materials Provided
Means Repair & Remodeling Cost Data or Facilities Construction Cost Data
Repair and Remodeling Estimating Seminar Workbook