AIA's Essentials of Cost Management: Cost-Estimating Tools

Gathering and successfully utilizing cost information can help prevent devastating project cost overruns. Cost estimating and cost management are both dependent on the availability of reliable, comprehensive, and current information. This 1-hour interactive online course emphasizes how to gather and utilize cost information from internal information. The topics include:

• Interpreting cost information
• Using cost indexes
• Referencing published cost information
• Developing and maintaining cost data files
• Performing computer-assisted estimating

This course both identifies sources of cost information and describes methods by which to treat and manipulate that information to make it more useful. This course is part of the series AIA''s Architect''s Essentials of Cost Management.

This course includes a multiple-choice test at the end of each section. Some of the material in this course is presented in downloadable PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read these files.

At the conclusion of this course, you will know the answers to the following questions: