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Estimating for Building & Civil Engineering Work, Ninth Edition

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Esitimating for building and civil engineeing works by Spence Geddes is by far one of the best estimating books. It is edited in a very useful way, it contains a lot of output which are very ueful for the average estimator. It also contains all the necessary inforamtion for all the overhead itmes for preparing a tender, like holding equipment, managment, rubbish removal, building permits etc.

All in all, a must have for every serious constructor.

Owner of 6th Edition of Estimating for Building and Civil Engineering works.One of my main books that helped me a lot to get my experience in Estimating.Gives you a lot of details on how you can be able to Estimate a project more accurate.I love the methods and standards that required,for viewing the project more close and accurate for pricing and cocluded the final best price.****I got my first studies in Cyprus with English Standards and methods.

I cannot recommend this book. It is very basic, poorly laid out and the index is very poor. Just as an example, one of the many weaknesses is the poor treatment of plant depreciation. Three pages contain a very padded discussion of straight line versus Interest and depreciation methods without any discussion of their relative merits or fields of application. More seriously, there is no good data on the actual inputs to be used in the methods, eg economic life of plant etc. This is typical of the book, only the trivial aspects of estimating are covered.