Electrical Estimating Methods, 4th Edition

Index

A

• Abbreviations:
  • common
  • on drawings
• Accounting for waste
• Accuracy:
  • checks for
  • level of
• Activities:
  • and quantity takeoff
  • in unit price estimates
• Actual cost
• AC wire
• Addenda
• Addendumization
• Add-on programs
• Administrative closeout
• Aerial systems, symbols for
• AIC (ampere interruption capacity)
• Air terminal (lightning grounding system)
• Alarms:
  • burglar
  • fire
• Aluminum wire
• American Wire Gauge (AWG)
• Ampacity
• Ampere interruption capacity (AIC)
• Appliance circuit wiring
• Armored cable
• “As per plans and specifications”
• Assemblies estimates
• Automatic transfer switches
• AWG (American Wire Gauge)

B

• Ballasts
• Bare costs
• Baseboard heaters
• Battery-operated emergency lights
• Benefits
• Bid(s):
  • hard
  • negotiated
  • qualifying a
• Bid bonds
• Bid date
• Bidding
  • and business plan
  • competitive
  • deciding whether to bid
  • and market analysis
  • and profit-to-volume ratio
  • quantity
  • and resource analysis
  • selective
  • strategies for
• Bid documents:
  • marking up drawings as
  • obtaining
• Bid form
• Billing rate (billing price)
• Bollards
• Bonds, as direct cost
• Boxes
  • fasteners for
  • outlet
  • pull
• Branch circuit wiring
• Branch taps
• Brushings
• Building Systems Design
• Burdened labor cost
• Burglar alarms
• Bus ducts
  • feeder-type
  • fittings for
  • plug-in modular units with
  • symbols for
• Business plan, and bidding strategy
• Busway, 100A plug-in
• BX wire

C

• Cable:
  • armored
  • fiber-optic
  • mineral insulated
  • nonmetallic sheathed
  • shielded
  • terminations of
• Cable trays
• Calendar days
• Call systems, nurses'
• Capacitors
• Catalog cuts
• Caulking ...