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Piping cost estimate

Piping cost estimate

Piping cost estimate

(OP)
Hi to all,

I need help to estimate costs for piping.

It is a boiler plant and I would like to estimate costs for piping inside the boiler house:
- steam
- feed water and condensate
- cooling water
- control air
- etc.

I should somehow estimate (not so precise) costs for piping including:
- design
- documentation
- materials
- erection

Practically complete price from design phase to installation.

If anyone have some literature or some links that could help - I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance
n

RE: Piping cost estimate

There is no way any person can give you that information, without going through all of the analysis - very, very expensive analysis! - to actually make the bid for your location: country, geography, shipping, staging, and materials and erection fees and support ...... NONE of those are known or even hinted at!

How much money would it cost to build a car?
How much money does it take to paint a building?
How much money does it cost to build a road?

Can you answer any of those questions either?
Would you ask those questions?

RE: Piping cost estimate

(OP)
I was thinking about rough estimate nothing with going to details.

Once I had a handbook with algorithm how to estimate piping costs (I just can't find this book anymore).

As I recall it's practically few equations with coefficients. Once again - roughly estimation.

I wasn't expecting that someone will calculate cost for me - just guidance where I could find the method.

Usually sales engineers have short ways for this estimations.

RE: Piping cost estimate

Maybe it's time to call a sales engineer with some specifics. You don't necessarily have to commit. They might even cough up the algorithm for you.

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RE: Piping cost estimate

In many countries are associations of cost engineers,
You can order a book there.
Many tech. prices are in there.
(Although I think the prices in that book are a little too high,
But it is a good start).

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