DEWALT Construction Estimating Complete Handbook Author: American Contractors Educational Services | Language: English | ISBN:
1435498992 | Format: EPUB
DEWALT Construction Estimating Complete Handbook Description
About the Author
American Contractors Educational Services has successfully prepared candidates for state required licensing exams since 1991. A team of full time instructors comprises field experience, training expertise and formal education to formulate an effective and dynamic approach to concisely present pertinent test information in a seminar format.
- Series: Dewalt Professional Reference
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: DEWALT; 1 edition (December 4, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1435498992
- ISBN-13: 978-1435498990
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is a FULL-SIZE book with EXCEL spreadsheet estimating tutorials included. The major part of this book has comprehensive coverage on the construction estimating subject itself. Comparing with the earlier small manual I purchased (DEWALT Construction Estimating Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series)) from the same author, I found this big book includes more extensive materials. For example, the sub-trade evaluation checklists from earthwork to electrical are now also presented in worksheet formats. Quite a few new features such as bid drawing evaluation, cost analysis, list of value engineering ideas are very interesting. Quantity take-off for all CSI trades and divisions are expanded to include solved examples with graphic drawings and sketches.....Anyway, this new book is wonderful as it incorporate all these new contents while keeping the original straight-forward flavour of "on-the-spot-answers".
However, what impressed me most is the Excel estimating portion of the book. Within less than 80 pages (the whole book is over 300), the author provides 7 step-by-step exercises to teach you all the essential Excel skills needed for construction estimating. No prior computer exposure is assumed, which suits me very well (I belong to the old generation and in our days, there wasn't a single computer on jobsite or office). Lots of graphic screenshots showing every step: setting up the worksheet, entering data, formatting, writing formulas and even making graphs/charts....
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