Cost Estimating Manual for Water Treatment Facilities
Book + CD
by Walter T. McGivney

Tested-and-proven techniques for quick, accurate estimates, Cost Estimating Manual for Water Treatment Facilities guides engineers, planners, and contractors through the process of estimating the cost of building water treatment facilities. It enables you to arrive at a dependable estimate and shows you how to do it quickly with a minimum of information and supporting data.

The manual identifies forty-three treatment processes, nine types of water treatment plants, plus five additional types of advanced water treatment plants. It then demonstrate how to calculate costs for each element, accounting for needed mark-ups and allowances in order to arrive at the total plant construction cost.

To help you make your own estimates, Cost Estimating Manual for Water Treatment Facilities provides:

• Examples of cost estimates for different water treatment processes
• Historical data from several public agencies
• Sample tables for 10 mgd and 100 mgd product water flow rates for each type of treatment plant
• Accompanying CD-ROM with Excel spreadsheets that enable you to perform estimates using your own data

Contents

1. Introduction to Construction Cost Estimating
2. Water Treatment Processes
3. Solids Handling and Disposal
4. Construction Cost Estimating at Predesign
5. Water Treatment Predesign Construction Costs
6. Operation and Maintenance Cost Impacts
7. Future Water Supply, Treatment and Distribution

Appendices: Detailed Treatment Plant Cost Tables

Index

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