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Project Completed Successfully

Project Completed Successfully. Delivering a successful project on time and on budget is a key requirement to ensure viability. As mentioned in previous publications, in order for this to happen, the project or work must come from a reliable technical and economical proposal. Following are some strategies to take into consideration to better manage project … Read more

How to Calculate direct Labor Hours

by Gustavo Cinca

How to calculate direct labor hours. The use of a detailed estimation method is the only way to arrive at a reliable estimate.
To get a reliable estimate, it is vital to correctly quantify the job.
To achieve this goal, reliable data on labor performance must be available.
Contractors typically use their historical performance records as a database to calculate the number or fraction of hours required to complete each work procedure.
Such records are valid where the following is true:

How to Calculate Work Hours

by Gustavo Cinca

How to Calculate Work Hours. A complete guide to calculate time worked on construction projects, including examples of overtime calculations. Tables to calculate times of labor on a construction project. Weekly hour’s calculator.

How to Calculate Direct Material Cost

by Gustavo Cinca

How to Estimate the Direct Material Cost (Examples)

How to Calculate Direct Material Cost (Examples).
Steps to identify direct materials, inventorying them and inquiring about their costs, delivery times and payment conditions.
The term materials include.

Piping Man-hours Estimation

by Gustavo Cinca

Piping Man Hour Estimation - Calculate Man hours

Piping Man-hours Estimation. Rough estimation of the order of magnitude (ROM) in the piping. In this post and the following, we will estimate the number of work hours required to assemble the welded piping as shown in the figure using three calculation methods.

Overhead Costs Examples

by Gustavo Cinca

How to Calculate Overhead Costs with Examples in Construction Projects.
A comprehensive guide to determining the overhead costs of construction and industrial assembly companies.

Standard man hours for Civil works

by Gustavo Cinca

Standard man hours for Civil works. Fast calculation of working hours required to complete reinforced concrete structures.

How to Calculate Working Hours

by Gustavo Cinca

How to Calculate Working Hours. In this publication we look at the concept of calculating working time and how average annual working time differs from one country to another.

Working Time Calculation

by Gustavo Cinca

Example of Direct Labor - Calculate Man Hours

Working Time Calculation – Calculate man hours. Calculation of the labor required to execute a reinforced concrete base.
In this example, we calculate the hours worked for the construction of a reinforced concrete foundation.

Cost per Hour for a Pickup Truck

by Gustavo Cinca

Cost per hour for a pickup truck. In this article, we will complete the calculation of the cost per hour for the Ford F150 truck of the previous post.