1. Quantities and Price

2. What’s the most important when shopping?

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

4. This also applies to
Buildings &
Construction

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

6. 3 WAYS to find a price Based on m2 price of building type
Based on m2 of building component
Based on detailed calculations of
Materials, Manpower, Machinery

7. 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

8. Your task:
Find (measure) the quantities

9. What kind of
building compnents
do you have?

10. 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

11. How to measure?
Which units to apply?
(m, m2, m3, pc (piece) )

12. FOUNDATION
(m, m2, m3)

13. FLOOR
( m2 )

14. OUTER WALL
( m2 )

15. INTERNAL WALL
( m2 )

16. EXTERNAL DOOR
(m2 or pc)

17. INTERNAL DOOR
(m2 or pc)

18. WINDOW
(m2 or pc)

19. ROOF
( m2 )

20. 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)

21. Look at the drawing
Plan
Section
Elevation

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

23. You will soon be ready for pricing!

24. GOOD LUCK !

25. YOUR JOB To estimate a price for: SOIL WORK CONCRETE BRICKWORK
CARPENTRY WORK
AND TO FILL IN THE BIDDING LIST

26. BIDDING LIST ”Breakdown of the total BID into trades, building components or other units” Example

27. BID ”An offer to the client to complete a construction work for a certain amount of money”

28. YOUR JOB Calculate the price for:
Group 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, CONCRETE
Group 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, BRICKWORK
Group 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, CARPENTRY
SOIL WORK

29. 2 PRICE LISTS
UNIT PRICES
PRICEBOOK PRELIMINARY

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

31. WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE BIDDING LIST FOR YOUR OWN TRADE, TRY TO CALCULATE OTHER TRADE-PRICES IN ORDER TO FULFILL THE COMPLETE BIDDING LIST!

32. GOOD LUCK !