This best-selling reference for landscape contractors, designers, and facilities maintenance personnel – now updated in its fifth edition – features the latest design trends and technologies. Includes: Step-by-step explanation of the estimating process – including full sample estimate for a major landscape project – updated with current costs and the new MasterFormat classification system. Expanded and revised to address the latest materials and methods, including new coverage on approaches to green building that save water, reduce maintenance costs, and provide other benefits to the facility. Sample forms and worksheets that save you time and prevent errors, now available on a new companion website. Download the forms of your choice and customize them for your firm. Professional guidance on calculating and controlling equipment costs – whether purchased or rented – and how to apply them correctly to each job. Assistance in planning and identifying maintenance costs. Your best source for professional guidance on accurate landscape estimates and reliable bids. FEATURES: Includes a companion website with the book's forms and worksheets to download and customize. Features new coverage of the latest industry trends, materials, and methods to save water and reduce maintenance costs.

Answers all your questions about preparing competitive landscape construction estimates...Means Landscape Estimating is a thorough, easy-reading, organized working tool that talks you through every step of preparing effective bids and estimates in a minimum of time -plus guidance for planning jobs and marketing your company.Written by an award-winning landscape designer and contractor, this edition of Means Landscape Estimating features an updated sample estimate, new productivity information, and reproducible forms. It includes a chapter on how to use Means Site Work & Landscape Cost Data as a pricing resource.

Site Work & Landscape Costs with RSMeans data includes unit and assemblies cost tables for sewerage, piped utilities, site improvements, handicapped access ramps, drainage, paving, street openings, repairs, trees and shrubs, underground tanks, railroad and marine work walls, and site work and landscape construction of all types.

Offers coverage of each important step in engineering cost control process, from project justification to life-cycle costs. The book describes cost control systems and shows how to apply the principles of value engineering. It explains estimating methodology and the estimation of engineering, engineering equipment, and construction and labour costs

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The acknowledged bible of the industry, Means Building Construction Cost Data offers unchallenged unit price reliability in an easy-to-use arrangement. Over 20,000 unit prices for 1996 are given.