Course Details

Cost estimating in construction industry

Academic Year 2024/25

BVA024 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 4th year

Price creation in construction production. Cost calculation for price creation of construction works and buildings. Costs and Costing. Calculating techniques and methods. Price calculations of construction works, methods. Calculation of overhead and profit. Software support for calculations and calculations.

Credits

4 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Ing. Petr Aigel, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Design and technology of construction and works. classification in construction, construction enterprise economy, cost estimating and prices of construction.

Basic Literature

MARKOVÁ Leonora, Ceny ve stavebnictví I. Studijní opora. Brno, FAST VUT. 2008.
MARKOVÁ Leonora, Ceny ve stavebnictví II. Studijní opora. Brno, FAST VUT. 2008.
SCHNEIDEROVÁ HERALOVÁ, R, VITÁSEK, S., BROŽOVÁ, L., STŘELCOVÁ, I. Oceňování staveb. ČVUT 2020. ISBN 978-80-01-067-48-2
BROOK, M. Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work, Routledge, 2017, 5th edition ISBN 978-1-138-68716-5

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281529

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Prices and costs in the building life cycle. Construction classification.
  • 2. Methods of pricing. Software for cost estimating.
  • 3. Cost estimating in construction. Technical and valuation documentation.
  • 4. Detaile itemize cost estimating of construction. Rules.Sorting of building works.
  • 5. Compilation of bill of quantities. Methods of measurement of building and construction work. Specifics.
  • 6. Valuation of bill of quantities by catalog prices. Compilation of itemize cost estimating.
  • 7. Costs.Classification of costs.Calculation in the economic system of the company.
  • 8. Calculation techniques.Přirážková calculation.
  • 9. Calculation methods. Absorption costing. Non-absorbent calculation.
  • 10. Calculation of list price of work. Analysis of calculation.
  • 11. Calculation of firm prices of work. Calculation bases.
  • 12. Calculation of firm price of work. Calculating of costs, profit and risk.
  • 13. Price and cost analysis of contract. Price and cost management.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Theoretical introduction, software support and software work
  • 2. Detailed cost estimating of the building
  • 3. Detailed cost estimating of the building
  • 4. Detailed cost estimating of the building
  • 5. Detailed cost estimating of the building
  • 6. Detailed cost estimating of the building
  • 7. Price and cost analysis
  • 8. Price and cost Analysis
  • 9. Price and cost Analysis
  • 10. Price and cost analysis
  • 11. Evaluation
  • 12. Completion
  • 13. Completion