Building Material Estimates and Rates Build Up: Second Edition

By Moremi Mareka

The script is entitled Building Estimates and Rates Build Up .and aims at empowering Technical educators, Technical, Brigades and Community colleges students, Apprentices and individuals in the building profession with the necessary skill and knowledge. As an experienced professional in the building industry, quantity surveyor( building material estimator) and a former lecturer for technical colleges, I have realized that there is need to come up with a book that will help students, apprentices and individual builders to easily understand the subject of estimating and rates build up to enable them to apply the skill whenever they have projects.

Currently, individual builders, apprentices, and students find it difficult to correctly and accurately estimate the quantities of materials required for proposed projects .Pricing is also a difficult task for most of them as they do not have an idea of how to build up rates.

Presently our brigades and technical colleges do not have a relevant book to deal with Estimates. Building Estimates and Rates build up provides a solution to such a problem.

The book provides a solution in that it brings together pure mathematics and practical estimation, to avoid a situation whereby students end up failing to realize that the same formulas that are used in Mathematics (math) are applicable in the estimates.

I strongly believe that the book will be able to even penetrate the international market.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 29, 2009
• ISBN: 9781453583227

Moremi Mareka

Moremi Mareka Bachelors degree Tech QS,Republic of South Africa (R.S.A.) National Diploma Building, Republic of South Africa (R.S. A.) Diploma, Construction Technology Republic of South Africa (R.S.A.) G & G Further Education teachers certificate (Botswana) Trade Test A in bricklaying (Botswana)

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Copyright © 2009 by Moremi Mareka.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009901573

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This book is dedicated to the members of my loving family

who stood by my side throughout my life even from the inception of this book until its final stage. You deserve a

pat on the back, especially my loving wife Kedmar.

Contents

Introduction

Estimation aid

Fractions

AREAS

TRIANGLES

PARALLELOGRAM

ELLIPTICAL FIGURES

POLYGONAL FIGURES

FEW EXAMPLES ON HOW TO APPLY AREA AND PERIMETER FORMULARS INTO MATERIAL ESTIMATION

VOLUME OF PRISMS

RATES BUILD UP

Introduction

Building estimates and price build-up provides technical educators, individual builders, apprentices, small contractors, Technical and Brigades students with the necessary knowledge and skill for estimating and pricing of building elements. The book gives a clue of how it is easily done so as to avoid or dodge the possibility of under estimating and subsequently under price the project. Individuals and Small contractors usually abandon their projects due to lack of knowledge of what to expect in the whole project and as a result end up operating on a deficit.

Estimating is the approximate judgement of the likely list of material and the overall future cost of the proposed project. It is the