This thoroughly rewritten and updated third edition offers comprehensive coverage of cost engineering, emphasizing capital projects and focusing on both estimating and cost control. Maintaining and enhancing the style of presentation that made the previous editions so popular, Applied Cost Engineering, Third Edition furnishes an entirely new and cost-effective approach to estimating and controlling contingency, a new chapter on systems and computer applications, a new chapter on bulk material control, expanded coverage of the factors that affect estimate accuracy, an introduction to the concept of estimate and schedule classification, additional end-of-text case studies, and much more.
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Applied Cost Engineering
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IntroductionĀ
toĀ
CostĀ
Engineering
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SUMMARY
CostĀ
engineeringĀ
asĀ
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disciplineĀ
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costĀ
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profitability.Ā
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inĀ
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Introduction to Cost Engineering
- Part I: COST ESTIMATING
- Part II: COST CONTROL
- Part III: CASE STUDIES
- Index
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