Champchops
Mechanical
- Dec 21, 2010
- 3
Hey All,
I recently moved from being a design engineer over to the owner's side. I now frequently must budget jobs for feasibility. Does anybody have any recommendations for free software or references to acquire this data. Typically I'm responsible for pricing the division 21-28 items. Currently I use the following.
2016 means guide and 2015 ENR guide.
Online pricing data
Budgets from past projects although these rarely break things out line by line.
For equipment, I get price quotes direct from vendors I work with.
While I've become decent at pricing fire protection, plumbing, and HVAC, I struggle with electrical, low voltage, fire alarm, etc.
If anybody could recommend some inexpensive software, I could probably get my superiors to pony up but nothing too expensive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I recently moved from being a design engineer over to the owner's side. I now frequently must budget jobs for feasibility. Does anybody have any recommendations for free software or references to acquire this data. Typically I'm responsible for pricing the division 21-28 items. Currently I use the following.
2016 means guide and 2015 ENR guide.
Online pricing data
Budgets from past projects although these rarely break things out line by line.
For equipment, I get price quotes direct from vendors I work with.
While I've become decent at pricing fire protection, plumbing, and HVAC, I struggle with electrical, low voltage, fire alarm, etc.
If anybody could recommend some inexpensive software, I could probably get my superiors to pony up but nothing too expensive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!