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This provides the general contractor an acceptable rate of return and compensation for the risk associated with the project. Choose the ONE best answer.
Profit margin
A detailed estimate determines the quantity and cost of everything required for the project including: Select All that Apply.
materials. insurance. overhead. bonds O labor
Square foot estimates may be adjusted for: Choose the ONE best answer.
building height
Quantity takeoff skills include: Choose the ONE best answer.
O Reading and quantifying plans
Types of bids include: Choose the ONE best answer.
O Competitive and Negotiated bids
Contract documents include: Choose the ONE best answer.
Technical specifications and Drawings
The best source of estimating information is: Choose the ONE best answer.
O Historical data
Types of Agreements include: Select All that Apply.
Cost-Plus-Fee
Unit-Price
Lump Sum
Agreement Provisions include: Choose the ONE best answer.
All the answers shown
The type of bond which guarantees payment on another party's obligations is a ________bond. Choose the ONE best answer.
Surety
The type of bond which guarantees that the contractor will perform all the work in accordance with the contract documents is a ___________bond. Choose the ONE best answer.
Performance
insurance provides benefits for workers injured or killed on the job. Choose the ONE best answer.
Worker's Compensation
Real property includes:
All the answers shown
Instruction to bidders include which procedures: Choose the ONE best answer.
All the answers shown
Which of the following statement is correct? Choose the ONE best answer.
The advantage of the percentage fee is that it allows the owner to save fees paid to the contractor when construction costs go down.
Document __________should be brought to the attention of the architect or engineer. Choose the ONE best answer.
Errors
The required level of accuracy coupled with the amount of information about the project that is available will dictate the type of estimate that can be prepared. Which of the following is a correct order for estimating methods from lower to higher accuracy and time to complete? Choose the ONE best answer.
Project Comparison - Square Foot - Parametric - Model - Assembly - Detailed
To be able to do quantity takeoffs, the estimator must ___________.Choose the ONE best answer.
O All the answers shown
___________is a drawing or information that modifies the basic contract documents after they have been issued to the bidder, but prior to the taking of bids. They may provide clarification, correction, or changes in the other documents. Choose the ONE best answer.
Addenda
In a __________agreement, the contractor agrees to construct the project in accordance with the contract documents, for a set price arrived at through competitive bidding or negotiation. The contractor agrees that the work will be satisfactorily completed regardless of the difficulties encountered. Choose the ONE best answer.
Lump - Sum
Which of the following is not an example of information that should be collected during the site visit after making a preliminary examination of the drawings and the project manual : Choose the ONE best answer.
O Local ordinances and regulations and note any special requirements
____________contractor is a separate contractor hired by the prime contractor to perform certain portions of the work. Choose the ONE best answer.
Specialty
The following items should be included in common errors doing estimating: Choose the ONE best answer,
A, B, C, andD
Which of the following statements is not true regarding the benefits of computerized estimating? Choose the ONE best answer.
Computerized estimating packages do not allow the estimator to track where the quantities came from
Which is not one of the four categories of estimating software? Choose the ONE best answer.
Remodeled sheets
What are the limitations and potential problems of using a building information model to prepare and estimate? Choose the ONE best answer.
All the answers shown
How might a building information model be used in estimating? Choose the ONE best answer.
To prepare conceptual or preliminary estimates
The following items should be included in a home office overhead budget: Choose the ONE best answer.
All but 1 answer shown
Also referred to as ___________compromises all costs that can be readily charged to a specific project but not to a specific item of work on that project. Choose the ONE best answer,
General conditions
Spreadsheets are often used to augment specialized estimating software packages. Excel and other spreadsheets have many advantages. If they are not already available on the estimator's computer, they can be purchased cheaply. They are easy to use and can be readily adapted to the company's existing estimating style.
True
The estimating notebook should be broken down into several areas including: Choose the ONE best answer.
A B, C. D, and E
Which of the following statements is not true. Choose the ONE best answer.
Some waste on a construction project is inherent in the design and can be avoided.
Using the quantity takeoff, the estimator must include the cost of the specialty contractors in the______________ Choose the ONE best answer.
direct field cost
The quantity of materials from the quantity takeoff, the productivity rate, and the productivity factor are used to calculate the __________required to install the materials, and the labor hours are entered on the__________ Choose the ONE best answer.
labor hour, workup sheet
Project Sales Price includes: Choose the ONE best answer.
A B. C. and D
Which of the following statements is not TRUE about the building information modeling. Choose the ONE best answer.
BIM models do address waste.
_____________also known as general overhead or indirect overhead costs, are costs that are not readily chargeable to one particular project. These costs are fixed expenses that must be paid by the contractor and are the costs of staying in business. Choose the ONE best answer.
Home office overhead costs
Which of the following items is not included in home office overhead costs? Choose the ONE best answer.
Temporary office rent, utilities, and equipment
Job overhead comprises all costs that can be readily charged to a specific project but not to a specific item of work on that project. Job overhead also referred to as_______________
general conditions ,direct overhead costs, indirect field costs
The cost of providing a temporary job office for use by the contractor and architect during the construction of the project, temporary utilities, repairs, and temporary barricades are examples of
job overhead costs ,indirect field costs
The productivity rate is often expressed as a number of labor hours per_______
eunit of work
The extensive use of overtime over an extend period of time has a detrimental effect on_________
productivity
All construction companies with revenues of $500,000 or more and many smaller construction companies must comply with the____________ Choose the ONE best answer.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
____________employees may be paid by the hour (hourly), a fixed salary, or by the piece rate.
Nonexempt
FLSA also_________ the banking of overtime hours commonly referred to as comp time. Regardless of how an employee is paid (hourly, salary, or piece rate), the employer must pay one and a half times the base rate for each hour over 40 hours worked during the workweek.
prohibits
Examples of "bona fide" benefits include:
ife insurance, pension, sick leave, and vacations.
________often addresses the following issues: wage rates, wage premiums, fringe benefits, shift works, and working conditions. Choose the ONE best answer.
Collective bargaining agreements
Leasing a piece of equipment is often harder than obtaining financing to purchase a piece of equipment.
False
Open-shop contractors and subcontractors have more flexibility in determining wage rates, benefits, and working conditions for their employees than _________contractors. Choose the ONE best answer.
union
Employers and employees are required to pay social security and Medicare taxes by the_________
Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
In 2013, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) tax rate is ____________percent on the first $7,000 of each employee's wages.
6
The productivity of equipment may be determined from _____________data for other similar jobs or estimated using cycle time or rate of progress.
historical
When estimating the productivity of different types of equipment working together, the productivity of the ____________producing type of equipment will establish the productivity of the group. Choose the ONE best answer.
lowest
The costs of operating the construction equipment should be calculated on the basis of the working___________
hour
As soon as a piece of equipment is purchased, it begins to depreciate in value.
True
When estimating the productivity of different types of equipment working together, the productivity of the ____________producing type of equipment will establish the productivity of the group. Choose the ONE best answer.
lowest
The costs of operating the construction equipment should be calculated on the basis of the working
hour
As soon as a plece of equipment is purchased, it begins to depreciate in value.
True
The costs of operating the construction equipment should be calculated on the basis of the working hour since the ownership or rental cost is also a cost per hour. Included are the following items except for
depreciation
The two main disadvantages of leasing a piece of equipment are
A and B
One of the advantages of using specialty contractors is that the general contractor can transfer some of the risk associated with the project to the specialty contractor.
True
The following picture is an example of
Request for Quote
Almost every job requires some digging. Equipment used includes:
All the answers shown
Most specifications require at least some landscaping work including all the followings except for
dewatering
__________is generally removed from all building, walk, roadway, and parking areas.
Topsoil
When calculating the amount of excavation to be done for the project, the estimator must be certain that the dimensions used are the measurements of the outside face of the _________and not those of the outside of the building.
footings
________is the putting back of the excess soil that was removed from around the building during the general excavation.
Backfilling
_________means If there is a shortage of materials, some must be brought in.
Borrow
The quantity of_________ is usually calculated by multiplying the area used for rough grading by the depth required.
*topsoil
Piles may be wood, steel "H sections, poured-in-place concrete with metal casing removed, poured-in-place with metal casing left in place. _________or precast concrete.
Wood and Concrete
Material in its natural state is referred to as ________and is measured in__________
bank material, bank cubic yard (bcy)
When ________are placed and compacted (as fill) on a project, it will often occupy _________than in its bank condition.
loose materials, less volume
Which of the following statements is true
Shrinkage is expressed as a percentage of the undisturbed original or bank volume.
if 1,500 bey (in place at natural density) of dense clay (20 percent swell) needs to be hauled away, how many loose cubic yards would have to be hauled away by truck?
1.800 Icy
If 7-cy dump trucks will be used to haul 1.300 Icy of materials away, how many loads would be required?
186 loads
If 500 ccy in -place of sand/gravel is required, how many loads would be required using 7-cy dump trucks? The material has a swell of 20 percent and shrinkage of 80 percent.
107 loads
Cutting consists of bringing the ground to a lower level by removing earth. Filling is bringing soil in to build the land to a higher elevation.
True
Using the following picture, what is the proposed elevation in point C-2?
104.0
The average end area method of quantifying cut and fill is often used when dealing with long, narrow tracts, such as roads. In this method, the site is divided into stations. Station 00+00 is the beginning. and station 01 + 75 means 75 feet from the beginning station.
False
Six (6) inches of topsoil is to be removed and stockpiled for the building in the following picture. The topsoil is to be removed 8 feet back from the perimeter of the building to allow for working around the building and sloping the sides of the excavation. How many bey of topsoil need to be removed and stockpiled?
68 bcy
All exposed concrete surfaces require some type of finishing. For each finish, estimator(s) need to analyze thoroughly the operations involved, material and equipment required, and labor hours needed to do the work.
True
Concrete is estimated by the______ or by the ________and then converted into cubic yards dividing the number by________
cubic yard (cy) - cubic foot (cf) - 27
When estimating footings for buildings with irregular shapes and jogs, the estimator must be careful to include the _______only once.
corners
In estimating quantities, the estimator makes no deductions for holes smaller than ________sf or for the space that reinforcing bars or other miscellaneous accessories take up.
2
_____________footings typically have projecting formed piers that support the building structure.
Spread
When estimating footings, columns, beams, and girders, their volume is determined by taking the _________of each item times its_________
inear footage - cross-sectional area
Concrete slab information will most commonly be found on wall sections, floor plans, and structural details.
True
Using a waste factor of 8 percent, determine the number of cubic yards of concrete needed to pour two of the spread footings in the following picture.
042 cy
Using the following picture, calculate the following: A. Number of dowels. B. Length of each dowel if it turns 9 inches into the footing. Allow for 2" of cover at each end.
A-4 and B- 51 inches
Using the following picture, calculate the following: A. Number of horizontal footing bars (both ways). B. Length of each horizontal bar. Allow for 2" of cover at each end. C. Total weight of horizontal bars if rebar #4 unit weight is 0.668 pounds per lf.
A-8. B-26 inches. C-11.6 pounds
A building requires a 100-foot-long by 83-foot-wide by 5-inch-thick concrete slab. Using a waste factor of 10 percent, determine the number of cubic yards of concrete needed to pour the slab.
O 128 cy
A building regquires a 100-foot-long by 83-foot-wide by 5-inch-thick concrete slab. Determine the number of rolls of wire mesh needed for the slab. There are 750 square feet of wire mesh per roll. Add 12 percent for lap and waste.
13 rolls
A building requires a 100-foot-long by 83-foot-wide by 5-inch-thick concrete slab. Determine the number of long and short bars for the slab. The slab is reinforced with #4 rebar at 12 inches on center both ways.
Number of long bars 84 bars, Number of short bars 101
Reinforcing bars are listed (noted) by the bar number, which corresponds to the bar diameter in _________of an inch. For example, a No.7 bar (deform________ -inch nominal diameter.
Eighth, 7/8
Reinforcing bars are taken off by linear feet. The takeoff (workup) sheet should be set up to include the number of the bars, pieces, lengths, and bends. Because reinforcing bars are usually priced by the hundredweight (100 pounds, cwt), the weight of reinforcing required must be calculated.
True
The reinforcing used in concrete may be reinforcing bars. WWF, or a combination of the two. What does WWF stand for?
Welded Wire Fabric
Which of the following statements is not TRUE for a WWF, which is designated on the drawings in the following manner: 4X 8D8XD 11
O both wires are smooth.
Proper curing is an important factor in obtaining good concrete. The concrete cures with the chemical combinations between the cement and water. Curing is the final step in the production of good concrete, which can be done by the following method(s):
A. B. C, D, and E
Selection of the concrete transporting method depends on
A B. C. D. and E
The vapor retarder or barrier is placed between the gravel and the slab poured on it and is usually included in the concrete portion of the takeoff. The material used should be lapped about 6 inches, and is estimated by rolls.
True
The amount of time required for a mason (with the assistance of helpers) to lay a masonry unit varies with the
A, B, C, D, and E
The __________bond (pattern) is the running bond.
least expensive
are the most common shapes of mortar joints.
CONCAVE V- SHAPE GRAPEVINE
A 3/8-inch mortar joint provides a face dimension of 8 x 16 inches; it requires _______units per 100 sf of wall, Units per square foot-144 in^2/(Square inches per unit)
112.5
The lightweight concrete block may weigh 30 percent less than the heavyweight unit, although it usually costs a few cents more per unit and usually has a slightly higher compressive strength.
* False
When estimating the quantities of concrete masonry, use the exact dimensions shown. Corners should only be taken once, and deductions should be made for all openings in excess of
* 10 sf
Brick is considered a _______unit even if it contains cores, as long as the core unit is less than 25 percent of the cross-sectional area of the unit,
solid masonry
When the hollow tile units are designed to be laid up with the cells in a horizontal position, they are referred to as ________with_________ the units are laid with the cells in a vertical position.
side construction, end construction
Mortar comes in five classifications: N. S, M, O., and K, with_______ being the highest strength and _________being the lowest.
N, K
Masonry should not be laid if the temperature is ___________Fand falling or less than _______Fand rising at the place where the work is in the progress, unless adequate precautions against freezing are taken.
40. 32
The masonry work that can be laid up without the use of scaffolding is generally the least expensive; however, that is typically limited to 4 to 5 feet above grade. Labor costs arise from the erection, moving, and dismantling of the scaffolding as the building goes up.
True
Determine the number of 8-inch-high by 8-inch-wide by 16-inch-long lintel concrete blocks required to complete 300 feet of the fence whose cross section is shown in the following picture. Lintel blocks are required wherever the #4 horizontal bars are located.
450
Determine the total weight of vertical bars (pounds) required to complete 300 feet of the fence whose cross section is shown in the following picture. Allow for two inches of cover. Rebar #5 unit weight is 1.043 pounds per If.
773
Using 3.5 cubic feet of mortar per 100 square feet of wall, determine the amount of mortar needed to complete 300 feet of the fence whose cross section is shown in the following picture.
70.04 cf
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