Estimating Building Costs
by Calin M. Popescu, Kan Phaobunjong and Nuntapong Ovararin

Estimating Building Costs presents the state-of-the-art principles, practices, and techniques related to estimating building costs in metric.

Estimating Building Costs is primarily designed as a textbook for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students in civil engineering, architectural engineering, construction engineering and management, and related programs.

Instructors should find Estimating Building Costs very useful and suitable for various teaching styles.

In as much as the book contains much more material than can be covered in one semester or quarter, selected chapters can be used to meet various academic objectives.

Practitioners or organizations involved in the building industry, such as owners, architects, project managers, general contractors, and subcontractors for building projects all over the world can use this book as a handy reference.

Since this is possibly the first US textbook on building cost estimation in metric units, construction practitioners should find it invaluable when dealing with international and governmental projects.

Although the text was not designed to provide answers to all estimating problems, it does provide a practical sequence and thorough knowledge of cost estimating.

Most financial costs in this book are representative of US national average costs in 1999.

The costs are given for the purposes of problem solving and discussion in estimating procedures, and, of course, they will vary with time and the location of the building project.