AEC 138 - Construction Estimating and Bidding
- Prerequisite: AEC 118, AEC 120, ENG 100
- AEC major only.
This course introduces students to construction contracts, types of estimates, construction costs, cost accounting, purposes and functions. Students also gain experience in generating material quantity takeoffs from construction drawings. Estimating construction costs is also covered. A computer spreadsheet program is used in the course. This course also available non-credit.
Contact: 2 hours lecture; 3 hours lab per week
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of AEC 138, the student will be able to:
- Determine the proper unit of measure for a quantity of specific building components.
- Define terminology specific to the profession of building estimators.
- Prepare a quantity take-off for a small building.
- Determine pricing for building components using reference literature and/or estimating software.
- Prepare an outline of the sequence of events in the estimating process for a building.
- Demonstrate oral and written communication, computation and problem-solving skills appropriate to the level of the coursework.
- Report to a workplace regularly and punctually, engage effectively and congenially with peers and supervisors, work from written as well as oral instructions, use assigned time efficiently for productive work and meet production deadlines.