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Apr 18, 2024
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CONST 200 - Basic Estimating
4.0 Credits
A detailed introduction to the world of construction estimating and bidding. Basic concepts, procedures, and terminology. Quantity take-off and pricing techniques. Scope of work issues and costs associated with the major components of a construction project.
Prerequisite Completion of CONST 100 and CONST 141 or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create a process for screening potential clients.
- Utilize plans, specifications, and contracts in estimating exercises.
- Divide a job into work packages.
- Access pricing information.
- Perform a quantity survey for excavation and concrete.
- Compute estimated costs from pricing and quantity information.
- Organize an estimating worksheet to facilitate accuracy and retrieval of information.
- Summarize estimated costs in a complete estimate format.
- Describe how the estimate is used for cost control.
- Describe how profit margin targets are determined.
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