1. INTRODUCTION:
1.1 BACK GROUND:
This report is about the professional development of the construction estimators. We had discussed about the construction estimators job, what is their education? , what are their skills? , what are their responsibilities? We try to assist the professional development of the construction estimator by competing it with the cost engineer/ engineer and try to have some useful outcome.
For that we should have the information about the construction estimator and cost engineer so we interview both of them and gather information.
1.2 OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE:
1. To interview the Construction Estimator.
2. To interview the Engineer.
3. Make comparison of the data received from these interviews and to come out with the information about the
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They work both in the comfortable offices and at the job sites. They work mostly on site.
4. Employment is expected to grow by 19 percent between 2006 and 2016, which is faster than the average for all occupations. In 2006, engineers held about 1.5 million jobs.About 37 percent of engineering jobs were found in manufacturing industries and another 28 percent were in the professional, scientific, and technical services sector, primarily in architectural, engineering.
3. STUDY DESIGN:
3.1 QUESTIONNAIRE:
1. What is cost estimation?
2. Who is cost estimator? What he does?
3. How much qualification required for cost estimator to work of cost estimation?
4. Which one is more preferred for the job of cost estimation cost estimator or engineer?
5. What skills are required for the cost estimator’s post?
6. How much the cost estimator’s are effective for any company in future?
7. Do you use any software for the cost estimation or do it manually?
8. At which stage the cost estimator’s roles come into account in a project?
9. How the cost estimator does estimates the cost of the project? Process?
10. What is the time phase chart?
11. What are the learning curves?
12. Cost estimators daily job
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4. Question d: Explain the variables you should take into account when assessing page 4
The data collected will be analysed and interpreted. The summary of the findings, suggestions and the conclusion will be given in the report.
From this case study the analyses are made on the following questions asked. The Questions that are asked are following: