Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
Start Date
25-4-1996 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1996 4:00 PM
Description
As a successful, retired NASA/KSC Lead Cost Engineer, this paper will help document these spin-offs and/or tools and their usefulness to estimators, contractors, and other local, state, and federal government organizations. These tools have been and are being used throughout the USA by the Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and other NASA field centers, over 30 architects, engineers, firms, and over 1,000 individuals. The usefulness has been documented by almost 1,000 responses to five NASA Technical Briefs from 1983 to 1995, and based on personal feed back, telecon, over 100 letters, and comments and over 23 published and presented professional technical papers to over 650 professionals on aerospace government estimating. Some of these spin-off tools and the government estimating technical papers are an important part of over 25 continuing education cost estimating seminars presented to over 500 construction students throughout North America from San Francisco to Nova Scotia, Miami to Toronto. These students are from 17 countries in 6 continents. (Ref. #24.) This report is about over 33 construction cost estimating tools, some especially exciting. They have been useful in improving accuracy and helpful in reducing estimating time in keeping with better, faster, and cheaper methods of estimating costs. At the 1st World Cost Engineering Congress in 1992, the first 21 tools were listed and described. These 12 additional spin-offs are for general bidding, mechanical, and electrical estimating. The most surprising and exciting tool may be a cost engineering contribution to the communications super highway by estimating the cost of installed fiber optic cable faster and more accurately. Another is one the author and others have been searching for for many years in mechanical estimating involving total bid costs, work hours, and materials costs per component or three tools in one. Other tools include analysis for adjusting cost indexes for long term escalation, number of bidders concept, PT&l rates, O. F. E., and GSE estimating, CAD automatic cost estimating, duel design, work hours, and material cost charts for pneumatic and hydraulic panels and tubing, work hours for welding SS tubing, etc. These 33 spin-offs were developed, tested, and used by government and A&E estimators for cost engineering for Total Cost Management (TCM).
Paper Session III-C - 33 Aerospace Spin-Offs in Construction Cost Estimating
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
As a successful, retired NASA/KSC Lead Cost Engineer, this paper will help document these spin-offs and/or tools and their usefulness to estimators, contractors, and other local, state, and federal government organizations. These tools have been and are being used throughout the USA by the Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and other NASA field centers, over 30 architects, engineers, firms, and over 1,000 individuals. The usefulness has been documented by almost 1,000 responses to five NASA Technical Briefs from 1983 to 1995, and based on personal feed back, telecon, over 100 letters, and comments and over 23 published and presented professional technical papers to over 650 professionals on aerospace government estimating. Some of these spin-off tools and the government estimating technical papers are an important part of over 25 continuing education cost estimating seminars presented to over 500 construction students throughout North America from San Francisco to Nova Scotia, Miami to Toronto. These students are from 17 countries in 6 continents. (Ref. #24.) This report is about over 33 construction cost estimating tools, some especially exciting. They have been useful in improving accuracy and helpful in reducing estimating time in keeping with better, faster, and cheaper methods of estimating costs. At the 1st World Cost Engineering Congress in 1992, the first 21 tools were listed and described. These 12 additional spin-offs are for general bidding, mechanical, and electrical estimating. The most surprising and exciting tool may be a cost engineering contribution to the communications super highway by estimating the cost of installed fiber optic cable faster and more accurately. Another is one the author and others have been searching for for many years in mechanical estimating involving total bid costs, work hours, and materials costs per component or three tools in one. Other tools include analysis for adjusting cost indexes for long term escalation, number of bidders concept, PT&l rates, O. F. E., and GSE estimating, CAD automatic cost estimating, duel design, work hours, and material cost charts for pneumatic and hydraulic panels and tubing, work hours for welding SS tubing, etc. These 33 spin-offs were developed, tested, and used by government and A&E estimators for cost engineering for Total Cost Management (TCM).
Comments
Transfer of Government Technology for Public Use
Session Chairman: Robert S. Cox, USAF, Director of Space Policy, Planning and Strategy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space
Session Organizer: Vickie Neal