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price?

price?

(OP)
How much is the structural design including drawings for townhouse, have lots of similarities?

RE: price?

(OP)
Actually,
It is almost 300 townhouse but most of them are similar.
also they are four stories , wood structure.

RE: price?

There's no such thing. What kind of construction? What kind of foundation? What size is the townhouse? What's the overall project construction cost?

There is way more information required before any of the helpful smart people in this forum will give you a practical answer.

RE: price?

Four stories sounds more like low-rise condo/apartments. and 300 of them is a lot of liability. You may get a deal however the chances of litigation on a project with this many units in infinitely higher than a single house. Generally structural fees are a percentage of the project costs.

I haven't had to ever create a fee proposal on projects this large but it's something like 10% of 7% of the project construction costs (please someone correct me because I'm totally throwing a number out here).

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(OP)
Constrcution: wood
foundation :concrete one basement with one concrete floor on ground elevation.
stores:4 story on top of this concrete floor.

RE: price?

This is more like apartment construction.

Normally, you are looking at 70 cents to $1.20 per square foot (probably closer to $1.20 for the four story, actually five story units), but with the repetition involved, I would design the dissimilar units based on the square foot price, and add subsequent identical units on a per unit price ($250 to $500.00 per unit). You have to cover your liability for the overall project somehow, not allowing un-remunerated repetition.

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)


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(OP)
in total the project is 340,000 s.f
includes:
100 back to back town house
83 town house 3 level
110 condo 4 levels on basement as i described before.

RE: price?

Sounds like a project with a sweet multiplier at $400 each additional @ 99 units... until the over deflected floors, and crummy soil consolidation, and the lack of brick ties, and the shrinkage from wet wood being used, and .... litigation begins.

RE: price?

Cyrus, be forewarned! Eric is right. Condominium work is a litigation nightmare. You have 283 litigants who expect everything to be perfect from day one and get better over time. With the added bonus that they have time on their hands. Add in that one or two might be engineers and three or four might be lawyers, mix well and let the lawsuits begin!
And you don't know how to price it. You're just asking for it.

RE: price?

if you're asking the price for the job, i'd ask can you do the work ?
are you confident that you can technially do the work ? have the resources to meet the schedule ??

how much liablity insurance do you have ?

how close is your company connected to your personal assets ??
(can your company "disappear" without being a problem for you ?) i'm not suggesting that this is a good (nor ethical) exit plan.

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

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