Estimating and Tendering for Building Work

• 1. Contractor selection  2. Contractual arrangements and documentation  3. The preparation of a tender  4. The cost of resources  5. Contract clauses and their effect on cost  6. Preliminaries  7. The calculation of unit rates for construction work  8. Methods of approximate estimating  9. Pro rata and analogue rates

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