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Week 37, 2020
There are differences in an hour: a manhour, a crew hour, a 50-minute hour. And an hour’s not a day, so there is another calculation for a manday. Here is a quick explanation of these estimating terms.

There are several ways to estimate the cost of construction work. Most heavy/civil companies estimate based off of manhours per unit or units per manhour...
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Do you estimate your work based on dollars per unit or manhour productivity?

A. Always with productivity rates, manhours/unit or units/manhour.

B. Strictly dollars - dollars per unit or vice versa.

C. We use published rates in RS Means and such.

D. We look up old bid results and adjust those rates.

E. Combination of some or all of the above.
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