Marcel Dekker, Inc. has a whole series of excellent books on cost engineering. See their web site at www.marceldekker.com. In particular look at Basic Cost Engineering (Humphreys) and Applied Cost Engineering (Clark & Lorenzoni). The leading university text on the subject is Jelen's Cost and...
While the Lang factors are quite old, they are still useful for checking estimates of process plant construction costs. Lang predicted total plant construction cost based upon the delivered cost of plant equipment.
The factors are 3.1 for solids processing plants (a coal preparation plant for...
I am looking for the annual values of the Marshall & Swift installed equipment cost index, the Chemical Engineering plant cost index, and the Federal Highway Administration federal highway bid index for the years 1991 to present. Can anyone help?
I am looking for the annual average values of the Marshall & Swift installed equipment cost index, the Chemical Engineering plant cost index and the Federal Highway Administration highway bid price index for the years 1991 through 2002.
Does anyone have access to this data?