This second edition of a best-seller contains new sample floor plans and elevations, new worksheets and checklists, and conversion tables to help you estimate more accurately.

Here you’ll find tips and techniques to improve your estimating skills and improve your quantity takeoffs. Includes the different types of estimating techniques and when it’s best to use each of them. Provides tips and formulas for figuring quantities for your estimates.

You’ll also learn procedures for integrating estimating with cost control, purchasing, and scheduling. Explains techniques for maintaining a database that will facilitate your future estimates.—whether you estimate by computer or by pen and paper.