Estimator’s Piping Man-hours Tool

Estimator's Piping Man-hours ToolEstimator's Piping Man-hours Tool for Process Piping Project - Basic Manual for any Engineer, Designer, Seller, Installer or Owner with ExamplesThe Author of this Manual, has an expertise of 45 years in his professional work as Head of Work, Project Manager and finally as president of a Company of Constructions and Industrial Assemblies in different plants of Chemical Processes, Refineries, Pipelines, Gas Compressors and Thermal Power plants of their country and abroad, exercising the direction of the works and the control of the resources used for their execution, particularly in the case of installation of piping. This Manual that gives the Reader is the fruit of that Technical Expertise.Tables for calculating manpower in PipingThe direct man-hours indicated in the 14 (fourteen) tables of this Manual have been verified by the Author during the Piping assemblies of the different installations.Estimating Man hours for piping installationIt is important to understand that there are no identical projects or jobs in this business and that it is not possible to automate or copy. The approach to respect is that any estimate work should be serious and professional, this Manual provides the Reader with a precise and convenient method to estimate the direct work in Piping installations for each specific project. In the content of this book, the Reader will access simple and reliable procedures to realize the estimates.Examples of calculating Piping installationsIn the Manual the Author presents complete calculation examples of Piping installations, based on the man-hours indicated by the tables to later apply the corrections or adjustments needed for each Project.Estimators and Proprietors of CompaniesThe purpose of this publication is to give the estimator and the business owner a reliable instrument for the unique task of estimating man-hours with precision.Every engineer or engineering student, unit price specialist, designer, salesman, installer and owner must read it. Start today.