Marchiori, Fernanda Fernandes (2009) Developing a method to prepare unit cost item nets for buildings estimating. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
This thesis develops a method that helps experts arrive at unit price items for buildings. It is based on the consideration of a unit price item net as the logical way to deal with the huge amount of information associated to the estimating process. The preliminary bibliography review and an exploratory study showed the accuracy of the authors initial concerns. The method developed was based upon former productivity studies and was applied in the production of unit price items net for Caixa Econômica Federal, a public building construction financial company. Such experience showed not only that the method was feasible but also pointed out some improvements that should be made, leading to the method presented in the thesis. Finally, it can be said the method used to develop unit price item nets can help allocate and deal with information about construction costs; it solved several problems indicated by literature, improving compositions in terms of precision, and of support to cost management in the building construction area.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Thesis advisor: | Souza, Ubiraci Espinelli Lemes de |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building construction; cost; estimates; unit price item |
| Index terms: | estimate, cost management, construction cost, productivity, estimating, unit cost, public building construction, exploratory study, accuracy, building construction |
| Subjects: | management, professional development, financial and cost management, building construction, research methods, accounting and finance |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Research Practice, Information Management, Cost Management, Business Strategy, Construction Technology |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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