This easy-to-use guide gives you the building components required to develop accurate assemblies-level cost estimates, evaluate trade-off costs, and verify unit price estimates. Be prepared to estimate any job with this indispensable cost reference.
Using this guide, you can
- Make better-informed decisions
- Weigh the options - price and evaluate assemblies alternatives
- Check the validity of unit price estimates or subcontractor proposals
- Perform quick square foot cost estimates
- Create a conceptual estimate without construction plans
What you'll find inside:
- Thousands of unit prices not found in any other RSMeans book
- Plumbing assembly pages for baths, kitchen sinks, lavatories, service sinks, showers, urinals, water coolers, and water closets.
- Building assemblies and Square foot cost sections
- Reference section with more than 90 reference tables, estimating aids, and technical data
- City Cost Indexes for over 900 locations in the U.S. and selected locations in Canada
