Right on
piping has a history of having the largest cost overrun on projects, even when professionally estimated and locked into fixed (ha ha) price contracts. For some guidelines, look at John S Page's books published by Gulf, but tread warily.
Cheers
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Al [mailto:alwynk@shaw.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:53 AM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] Cost Estimation
dear amit,
trust us on this one
thats exactly why estimators have gainful full time employment. if it
was as easy as you ask, they would have no job. would you hand over all
the knowledge of your job so you could become unemployed? besides you
have to seriously question the value and accuracy of data given to you
in the way you ask. Estimating is a serious skill and many serious
decisions are based upon it. If you are trying to cut so many corners
what value is the attempt you are making going to have. Theres no harm
in building your own knowledge base of costing, but dont pretend its any
more than that when you are starting from scratch. For one thing it
changes constantly and only a professional estimator is up with the play
In the long run you will save money by letting a skilled estimator do
it. this is from experience, Paul knows our recent case. I've seen many
botched estimates and they just cause grief.
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-----Original Message-----
From: anant panchal [mailto:panchal_ak@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:46 AM
To: pipingdesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PipingDesign] Cost Estimation
Hello all,
I am getting problems in calculating cost for Pipes,
Pipe fittings, flanges valves etcs.. I dont have data
of rates for many items ..As sending querries to
related manufacturing companies for many different
components with diff materials is very tedious and
reply are also not so quick. Can anybody put some
light for getting tentative rates from any internet
sites or some other source so that the estimation
process could be fast
Regards,
Amit
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