Video - InEight Estimate - Cost and Production - Detail Costs

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For the cost items you've created, you can now add their cost and production. All information for a cost item is contained in a cost item record. Right-click on the row header of the clearing cost item and select Open. The cost item record is divided into three sections.

The first is the cost item header information, where the general information about the cost item is displayed. The second section is the costing area where costs are defined. The third section is the data block section, which contains a set of tabs for entering additional information for the cost item. In the header section, you can turn off or turn on the parent information from the Actions menu.

In the Costing area section, there are three ways you can enter costs. Detail, plug and quote. Click on the Detail tab. You can detail your cost items with resources and production to come up with the unit in total cost of your cost items.

The detail cost source is the preferred method for cost estimating. On the detailed tab, click in the code field on the first blank row. Click on the Resource icon to open the resource selection register. On the Labor tab, select LL2 laborer and L01 operator class one.

Then click OK. Note that both resources are now added to your cost item with a quantity of 1. You actually need two laborers, so change your labor resource quantity from 1 to 2. You also need a loader to do the clearing.

Click in the Code field on the next blank row. Then click on the Resource icon to open the selection register. Click on the Construction Equipment tab and select the EL988 loader, then OK. With your crew established for doing the clearing work, click on the Production tab and the data block section on the right to define how long the work will take.

In the Days field, enter 8. Notice, you now have a total cost based on the resources and productivity you defined. As you look at the production values, you realize this crew will likely only be able to do one acre per day. Adjust the production by entering 1 in the Acre Per Day field.

Note that the red arrow indicates where you entered your production value. Your total cost has now adjusted based on your production change. Click OK to close the record. Right-click on the row header for Grading and select Open.

For this cost item, you want to add an assembly of resources. Rthe detail tab, click in the Resource Assembly field on the first blank row. Then click on the Resource Assembly icon to open the Assembly Selection register. Select the grading crew.

Then click OK. Your grading assembly is now employed on the cost item. On the production tab, type 1 in the Acre Per Day field. You now have a unit in total cost for the cost item.

OK to close the record. Note that you now have a total rolled up cost for the clearing and grubbing cost item, and a unit cost is automatically calculated from the clearing and grubbing takeoff quantity. Icost item 4.1 Furnish Pipe Materials.

Open the selection register and click on the Installed Material tab. Select the MPP 10 pipe, 10 inch PVC resource; then click OK. Because this is a material resource, there's no need to enter production. Instead, enter 1000 in the Quantity Less Waste field.

Then press tab, to move to the next field. Enter 5% waste. Then press tab. This calculates 1050 for the material quantity, and you now have a unit and total cost defined for the cost item.

Click OK to close the record.