( No Software to Install ) Easy-to-Use Wizard-based Interface Suitable for Consumers & Pros Comprehensive Line-Item Cost Breakdowns Major Category Cost Subtotals Resi-Cost answers important questions such as: What's a realistic budget for a new custom home?
We focus on quantifying every aspect of a project, utilizing an assembly based estimating software. The benefit of this program is the detail that has been taken in building our database and the formulas associated with it to provide the most accurate count of materials possible on the final ...
Oatey 130 Series Shower Drains are a cost-effective center point drain option designed for use with tile or marble showers.Photo courtesy of Oatey If you use an acrylic or fiberglass base, no-caulk drains are popular because they do not require PVC or ABS cement to connect to the pipe...
The installed capital costs for both gas and electric technologies were developed by an experienced building technology cost-estimator, using a combination of the cost-estimator's market experience and public sources of equipment costs. This study sought to overcome many of the shortcomings in ...
A possible explanation is that the investment cost of energy-efficient retrofits per household in a multi-dwelling building is significantly lower than for single-dwelling buildings. Furthermore, households in multi-dwelling buildings have the legal obligation to contribute monthly to the reserve fund ...
The authors analyze the impacts and associated welfare cost of building height restrictions. They come to the conclusion that due to a density below the free market level in city centers, cities expand spatially and the consumer welfare loss is associated with commuting costs of a household living...
The ‘case given as’ and ‘main condition’ variables were used to identify “Building Fire” and “House Fire” records. The NSW EDDC uses three different types of clinical coding, with presenting diagnosis recorded using either the Australian version of the International Classification of Disease...
(e.g., proportion of walls and windows in the external envelope). There is a clear trade-off between model adjustment, i.e., estimation accuracy and the availability of information in the early stages of the project. The review presented focused on cost estimation for building projects and ...
As the most populated country globally, China has experienced rapid urbanization for decades, and the building sector contributed a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions [7,8]. Most of the buildings in China use traditional building materials that are usually energy-intensive. For instance,...
Machine learning has also been used in the building sector, mainly to predict the energy consumption of buildings. However, there have been no studies in which machine learning has been used to predict occupant behavior. Machine learning techniques are also expected to improve prediction accuracy in...