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1.		DEWALT Construction Estimating Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series) from DEWALT Price: $9.68 Customer Review: The DEWALT Construction Estimating Professional Reference (Dewalt Trade Reference Series)is a great pocket book guide! It has lots of examples, from bid sheets to calculating concrete. I would recommended for anyone who is in the construction business.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		RSMeans Residential Repair & Remodeling Costs 2010: Contractor's Pricing Guide from R.S. Means Company Price: $26.18	Click here for more information


3.		RS Means Square Foot Costs 2010 from R.S. Means Company Price: $119.78	Click here for more information


4.		RS Means Facilities Construction Cost Data 2010 from R.S. Means Company Price: $277.81 Customer Review: Excellent reference book for estimating construction and facilities maintenance. A must have in my line of work (Construction Administration).	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Estimating in Building Construction (6th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $98.50 Customer Review: I received my item very quickly and it was brand new just as the site describe it! I like Amazon and will continue to shop here	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Building an Affordable House from Taunton Press Price: $4.78 Customer Review: The book is the bible for poor construction techniques designed to save a few dollars on each house but leave a legacy of grief for the home owner. If you like the idea of cutting corners and building the worst houses on the market, buy this book. I wouldn't own one of this guys houses.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		RSMeans Electrical Cost Data 2010 from R.S. Means Company Price: $114.66	Click here for more information


8.		Roofing Construction & Estimating from Craftsman Book Company Price: $25.08 Customer Review: In "Roofing Construction & Estimating", Dan Atcheson draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as a draftsman, as an apprentice in plumbing, electrical and carpenter, as a professional in all areas of construction from earthwork, to framing, to roofing. The result is an impressively... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry from University Of Chicago Press Price: $10.28 Customer Review: Great read and gives you a great insight to the construction industry in a "big picture" form. As a construction management student, it makes me feel good about where the construction industry is headed in the near future and the optimism the author has for the broken buildings to be "fixed" as he... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		The Complete Guide to Alternative Home Building Materials & Methods: Including Sod, Compressed Earth, Plaster, Straw, Beer Cans, Bottles, Cordwood, and Many Other Low Cost Materials from Atlantic Publishing Company (FL) Price: $15.11 Customer Review: Just based on the title, this book seems promising. "Going green" is the craze right now, why not start with where we live? Upon opening the book, we are treated with a witty dedication that sets the tone. The rest of the book is just as humorous, clever, and fun. The book adds a whole new... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Construction Estimating Reference Data/Book and Disk from Craftsman Book Company Price: $20.00 Customer Review: This book uses "unit pricing" or "flat rate pricing," a helpful way to estimate a project when you are sure the pricing reflects your material and labor costs plus the correct markup for your business. You should take a sample case and compare your actual costs to a listed unit price. You can then... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Handbook of Construction Contracting: Estimating, Bidding, Scheduling, Vol. 2 from Craftsman Book Company Price: $10.00 Customer Review: This book is an excellent refernce book. It helps you from beginning to end with almost any senerio.I highly recommend this book, Full of knowledge,references, and details. A very good book on construction management, building construction, estimatimg, contracts,and helpful cost information. One of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		R. S. Means Mechanical Cost Data from R.S. Means Company Price: $117.62	Click here for more information


14.	[no image]	Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work from Laxton's Price: $44.95	Click here for more information


15.		RS Means Assemblies Cost Data 2010 from R.S. Means Company Price: $176.36	Click here for more information


16.		Estimator's Piping Man-Hour Manual, Fifth Edition (Estimator's Man-Hour Library) from Gulf Professional Publishing Price: $79.15 Customer Review: This book is still the benchmark manual for accurate man-hour takeoffs in the piping industry and the only improvement will be when it is published in a metric measurement version as well as this Imperial measurement standard. This manual is used in places other than the USA and the rest of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Repair & Remodeling Cost Data 2010 (Means Repair and Remodeling Cost Data) from R.S. Means Company Price: $96.80	Click here for more information


18.		Fundamentals of Construction Estimating (Trade, Technology & Industry) from Delmar Thomson Learning Price: $29.99 Customer Review: My text book arrived in mint condition and in minimum time. I was very pleased with this order. Everett	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Means Residential Detailed Costs: Contractor's Pricing Guide (Contractors Pricing Guide) from R.S. Means Company Price: $25.39 Customer Review: The book was shipped when promised. The packaging was very good. The RS Means books are very useful for estimating project costs.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Residential Square Foot Costs: Contractor's Pricing Guide 2009 (Means Contractor's Pricing Guide: Residental Repair & Remodeling) from R.S. Means Company Price: $24.95	Click here for more information


21.		Basic Engineering Calculations for Contractors from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $20.30 Customer Review: I found the information helpful, easy to use and direct to the point.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		RSMeans Facilities Maintenance & Repair Cost Data 2010 (Means Facilities Maintenance & Repair Construction Cost Data) from R.S. Means Company Price: $261.08	Click here for more information


23.		Construction Estimating: An Accounting and Productivity Approach from Stipes Publishing, LLC Price: $50.00 Customer Review: This book is full of great information and will be very useful to me in my college career.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		RS Means Light Commercial Cost Data 2009 from R.S. Means Company Price: $108.07 Customer Review: The way this book was put together shows how poor the quality of this book is. Three days after I bought it, the book pages were coming out like if there was no glue to keep them together. 50 bucks wasted!	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Estimating for Residential Construction from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $78.39 Customer Review: Very good educational material for anybody who needs to aquire knowledge about the basic concepts of estimating methods and technics. This book is very clear and easy to understand and covers many different aspects of construction estimating. Excellent resource for begining level students or... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Cost Planning & Estimating for Facilities Maintenance: Evaluating & Budgeting Operations, Maintaining & Repairing Major Building Components, Applying Means ... Maintenance & Repair Cost Data, specia from R.S. Means Company Price: $59.37 Customer Review: I've always felt that you can do no wrong utilizing RS Means in the construction industry. As a General Contractor, I have depended on RS Means through-out the country on various types of commercial and governmental projects. Cost Planning & Estimating for Facilities Maintenance is a must have... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Interior Home Improvement Costs: The Practical Pricing Guide for Homeowners & Contractors from R.S. Means Company Price: $11.25 Customer Review: RSMeans is a well known name in construction--so well known that I expected much better from this book. Here are some pros and cons of this edition: Pros: You can get a very quick idea of what a broad range of projects will cost. Project costs are itemized in some detail: how much... more info	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Exterior Home Improvement Costs: The Practical Pricing Guide for Homeowners & Contractors from R.S. Means Company Price: $1.67 Customer Review: I saw this book in the store and decided to see if I could get it cheaper on Amazon. When I pulled up the page, the cover was the same as the one in the store. I didn't know it was an old eddition with outdated figures until it arrived in the mail. I went back to the page I bought it on and then... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Construction Estimating Using Excel from Prentice Hall Price: $84.42 Customer Review: The descriptions of estimating are fundamentally sound, but the way the mathematics is explained is a direct contrast to the way things are taught in most schools today. It's very "old-school", the methods are confusingly written.	Customer Rating: 1.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.	[no image]	RSMeans Residential Detailed Costs Contractor's Pricing Guide 2010 from R.S. Means Company Price: $28.36	Click here for more information

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