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and sometimes even a business.Master Estimates
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Access 36 categories of Cost Data for the United States, Canada, Australia & the United Kingdom. The Cost Data is available in Estimate Assembly files, also referred to as Master Estimates compatible with leading Estimating Software formats.
The Costs are built from the ground up utilizing Crews of Labor & Equipment, Production Rates & Material Rates. The files included a multi-level Work Breakdown Structure of over 70,000 Items & Activities.
The Cost Data can be imported into your current estimate. The Data is suitable for Contractors performing Construction Estimates & Engineers or Owners performing Feasibility Level Estimates.
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Paul Hewitt
Paul Hewitt is the Principal of HCI Cost Data Limited. Mr. Hewitt has a 50-year career estimating Heavy Civil and Infrastructure projects around the World. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Hewitt has worked as an independent estimating consultant, working for Contractors, Engineers, and Government Institutions on major infrastructure and heavy civil projects.
These projects have included some of the largest infrastructure projects in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific Region including Hydro, Tunnel, LRT, and Toll Highways.
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How It Works
We will send you the Data, show you how to customize it for your area & help you bid your work faster with more consistency & accuracy.Step 1:
Download Data
We will send you a link where you can download a compressed zip folder that includes all the backup files you have purchased. You just need to un-zip the folder & restore them into your estimating software.Step 2:
Configuration
The data is based on average resource rates for the United States & Canada. For feasibility level estimates you are good to go. For detailed construction estimates you can quickly adjust your labor rates, fuel prices & material rates based on your local area.Step 3:
Create Estimate
Setup the Bid Items in your estimate, then open a Master Estimate & copy in single activities, a range of activities or a complete multilevel estimate assembly including items & activities. You will have the option to automatically prorate the quantities as you go.Purchase Options
Aecon Group
Montreal, Quebec, CanadaFor decades Paul Hewitt was regarded as the most valuable reference when it came to estimation for Heavy Civil Construction in Canada, USA and overseas. As a professional engineer, he has always provided highly detailed and accurate estimates supported by realistic means and methods. This invaluable life experience is now available through his company HCI Cost Data Limited, providing a library containing more then 36 different Master Estimate files. With 40 years of estimating experience myself, I am still amazed by Paul’s infinite knowledge on estimating Heavy Civil Projects.
Bernard Boucher Eng.
Estimation Manager
Our Friends
Whether you are a National Contractor bidding on a multi-billion dollar Transit Project, an International Civil Engineering firm providing a budget for a major Highway & Bridge Project, a local Subcontractor quoting Sewer & Watermain work, a Tunnel Engineer doing a check estimate for a Water Supply Tunnel, a local Earth Moving Contractor bidding on Site Grading for a local developer or an Estimating Consultant looking to enhance their portfolio, HCI Cost Data can provide the Estimate Assembly you are looking for.
Frequently Asked Questions
Refer to the “Terms & Conditions”. The data is copyright protected. You are free to share & edit the data with everyone in your organization. You cannot transfer the data outside of your organization without the expressed written consent of HCI Cost Data Limited.
Cost Books
The books below contain real examples of the data in action. Feel free to browse through them and use whatever information you like to help you with estimating your project. If you are a user of estimating software and you would like to save yourself a significant amount of time and energy building your detailed estimates, you can purchase the same Master Estimate data in HeavyBid, InEight, or Chief Estimator format by completing the request for quotation form.BASIS OF Estimates
These online Cost Books provide the Basis upon which the estimate data was developed including illustrations, means & methods, structure configurations, material factors, quantity tables & productivity summaries.Browse Cost Books
Cost Books
These online Cost books provide the detailed Reports generated from the cost data including summaries of selling prices, item costs, activity costs, crew makeup, production rates & resource rates.Browse Cost Books
Estimate Analysis
& Quantity Takeoff Spreadsheets
Estimates are only as accurate as the quantities they are based on. Over 40 Spreadsheets are available in Excel (.xlsx) format covering Analysis of Costs & Schedules along with detailed Quantity Takeoff Spreadsheets including sketches, formula & factors based on real projects covering the complete scope of work covered by the HCI Master Estimates.Browse Takeoff Sheets
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