David P. Benge is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) with over 30 years experience as a quantity surveyor and educator. As Head of Quality Management at Gleeds, international management and construction consultants, David focuses on service improvement for all aspects of quantity surveying and project management activities - with a worldwide remit. Through Gleeds, he provides quality consulting services and training on the use and application of the NRM suite of measurement rules. David authored both the first and second editions of NRM1 for the RICS and was co-author and executive technical editor on both NRM2 and NRM3.
Part 1: Introduction 1. Cost management 2. Cost estimating and cost
planning Part 2: Order of cost estimating 3. Order of cost estimates - an
overview 4. Embarking on an order of cost estimate 5. Preparing an order of
cost estimate 6. Computing the works cost estimate 7. Order of cost
estimate - a worked example 8. Preparation of an initial elemental cost
model - using the elemental method of estimating 9. Initial elemental cost
model - a worked example Part 3: Cost planning 10. Cost planning - an
overview 11. Form, structure and codification of a cost plan 12.
Preparation of a cost plan 13. Quantification and the use of the tabulated
rules of measurement for cost planning 14. Facilitating works (group
element 0) 15. Substructure (group element 1) 16. Superstructure (group
element 2) 17. Internal finishes (group element 3) 18. Fittings, furniture
and equipment (group element 4) 19. Services (group element 5) 20.
Prefabricated buildings and building units (group element 6) 21. Work to
existing buildings (group element 7) 22. External works (group element 8)
23. Deriving unit rates for building components, sub-elements and elements
24. Calculation of building works estimate 25. Main contractor's
preliminaries (group element 9) 26. Main contractor's overheads and profit
(group element 10) 27. Calculation of works cost estimate Part 4:
Estimating cost targets for non-building works items and risk allowances
28. Project and design team fees (group element 11) 29. Other development
and project costs (group element 12) 30. Setting and managing risk
allowances (group element 13) 31. Estimating the possible effects of
inflation (group element 14) 32. Establishing the cost limit 33. Taxes and
incentives Part 5: Writing cost estimates and cost plan reports 34.
Reporting of cost estimate and cost plans Part 6: Designing pricing
documents using NRM 1 35. Pricing documents Part 7: Analysing bids and
collecting cost data 36. Analysing bids and collecting cost data using NRM
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