1. Quantities and Price

2. What’s the most important when you do shopping?

3. Selling (buying) points
Price
Quality
Size (amount)

4. This also applies to
Buildings &
Construction

5. Imagine you are a
CONTRACTOR
And I am your
CLIENT

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

7. I need to know:
Price
Quality
Size

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. What kind of
building components
do you have?

13. 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

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

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

16. FOUNDATION
(m, m2, m3)

17. FLOOR
( m2 )

18. OUTER WALL
( m2 )

19. INTERNAL WALL
( m2 )

20. EXTERNAL DOOR
(m2 or pc)

21. INTERNAL DOOR
(m2 or pc)

22. WINDOW
(m2 or pc)

23. ROOF
( m2 )

24. 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)

25. Look at the drawings
Plan
Section
Elevation

26. Read or calculate
the quantities
Save all quantities
on a spreadsheet

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

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

29. 2 PRICE LISTS
UNIT PRICES (i.e. price / m2)
PRELIMINARY PRICEBOOK

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

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

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

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

35. GOOD LUCK !