U need to actually collect the data from the floor superidentent and then produce ur productivity rates depending upon the machine and manpower productivity. The rates provided in the books are for standard conditions and it will vary from job to job. In ur case, it solely depends upon the machine productivity and then manpower.

If its a product, then u can have the standard productivity rates, but if the design and specs of the item changes everyday, then u hav to define ur own norms by taking with the floor team and ur knowledge base.

Cheers,

rav

Entirely Dependent on the nature of the deliverables. Assuming your company has no norms to work from, you would as Arnold has suggested, work up from the BoQ and Crew rates for Construction / Installation activities.

However, if your manning up design deliverables, your best bet is to sit with the design leads and go through the estimating process with them (by sitting with them, rather than just giving them an excel dump to load manhours against, you get a feel of where the hours may be being ’padded’ to provide a degree of "engineer’s contingency" :) ) It also gives you the opportunity to capture any assumptions and exclusions at source.

If you’re really stuck, and you don’t have access to the engineering team for any reason, I would suggest trawling your company’s financial / cost control system to ascertain actuals from previous, similar jobs (this is always a good sanity check for your estimates anyway - and the first step along the way for developing your own company norms for future use), but bear in mind, no 2 jobs are exactly alike, whether it’s a different type of plant, different geography, different risks, or just different people.

Hope this helps,

Gordon