Quantities and Price

What’s the most important when you do shopping?

Selling (buying) points Price Quality Size (amount)

This also applies to Buildings & Construction

Imagine you are a CONTRACTOR And I am your CLIENT

And you are going to build my house! What do you think, I would like to know?

I need to know: Price Quality Size

PRICE Building Materials Man Power Machinery / Equipment In order to CALCULATE THE PRICE of a building you need to know the QUANTITIES of: Building Materials Man Power Machinery / Equipment

3 Ways to estimate a price Based on m2 price of building type Based on m, m2, m3 or number of building components Based on detailed calculations of Materials, Manpower, Machinery

Today you will use Based on m2 price of building type Based on price for each m / m2 / m3 / pc of building components Based on detailed calculations of Materials, Manpower, Machinery

Your task 1: Find the quantities (measure or calculate)

What kind of building components do you have?

List of building components (examples): Foundation Floor Outer wall (type 1, 2, 3, …) Internall wall (type 1, 2, 3,…) External door Internal door Window (type 1, 2, 3, ..) Roof Others

How to find quantities? Reading measurements on drawing Measuring directly on drawing Extracting directly from REVIT

How to find quantities? Which units to apply? (m, m2, m3, pc (piece) )

FOUNDATION (m, m2, m3)

FLOOR ( m2 )

OUTER WALL ( m2 )

INTERNAL WALL ( m2 )

EXTERNAL DOOR (m2 or pc)

INTERNAL DOOR (m2 or pc)

WINDOW (m2 or pc)

ROOF ( m2 )

Applicable units SUMMARY: Foundation (m, m2, m3) Floor (m2) Outer wall, type 1, 2, 3, … (m2) Internal wall, type 1, 2, 3,… (m2) External door (m2 or pc) Internal door (m2 or pc) Window, type 1, 2, 3, .. (m2 or pc) Roof (m2)

Look at the drawings Plan Section Elevation

Read or calculate the quantities Save all quantities on a spreadsheet

Your task 2: Calculate / estimate the price of your building

Find prices on the ”Preliminary Pricebook” (on the website)

2 PRICE LISTS UNIT PRICES (i.e. price / m2) PRELIMINARY PRICEBOOK

Now look at your drawings and building components Find your building component in the pricebook Calculate the price for each component

THERE MAY BE PRICES MISSING IN THE AVAILABLE PRICELISTS. NOTE! THERE MAY BE PRICES MISSING IN THE AVAILABLE PRICELISTS. IF SO…THEN ASK!

THEN SUMMARIZE ALL PRICES FOR ALL COMPONENTS TO A TOTAL PRICE OF THE BUILDING. TO BE PRESENTED TO THE CLIENT

NOTE! THE PRICE OF YOUR BUILDING WILL BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR FINAL PRESENTATION

GOOD LUCK !