Guiding engineers and engineering students in applying basic principles of cost engineering to the evaluation process, this comprehensive book focuses on capital and operating cost estimating at all levels of accuracy.
Entirely revised and expanded, this Second Edition features in-depth coverage of profitability and risk analysis, with emphasis on evaluating major projects . . . considerably updated capital cost estimating techniques and profitability analysis sections . . . depreciation guidelines and tax considerations as of January 1986 . . . a complete cost estimate for instructors and students . . . problems at the end if the book that permit students to test their knowledge of every chapter . . .and an exhaustive, new bibliography with over 600 entries that covers the literature from 1982 on and allows fast, easy location of sources via keywords.
Basic Cost Engineering is an excellent reference for cost engineers and estimators, as well as chemical, industrial, and mineral engineers involved in the cost estimation field. This superb book is also recommended as a text for undergraduate engineering courses in cost estimating.
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