TY - BOOK AU - Pico, Wayne J. Del TI - Estimating building costs: For the residential and light commercial construction professional SN - 978-1-118-09941-4 U1 - 692.5 DDC23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Jercy PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - BUILDING MATERIALS (BT-BM) KW - THE WORKING DRIWING; UNDERSTANDING THE SPECIFICATIONS; CALCULATING LINEAR MEASURE AREA AND VOLUME;THE QUANTITY TAKEOFF AND PRICING; UNDERSTANDING MATERIAL AND LABOR COSTS; GENERAL REQUIREMENTS; EXISTING CONDITIONS; CINCRETE; MASONRY ; METALS; WOOD PLASTIC N2 - Completely revised, updated, and reorganized to conform to Masterformat 2010, this new edition provides a step–by–step guide to estimating building costs for contractors. A series of questions at the end of each chapter helps the reader summarize the content. In addition, the chapter on computer estimating has been expanded to cover the new estimating software for performing quantity takeoff by computer, and content covering the procedures for conceptual estimating as well as parametric estimating has been added ER -