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... 55 C H A P T E R 5 5.1 Introduction This chapter provides an outline of Estimating Highway Preconstruction Services Costs, Volume 1: Guidebook (hereafter referred to as the guidebook)
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... 56 The guidebook also provides a complete guide on developing a functional-level PCS cost-estimating model or a bottomup model. The content of the chapters is summarized here: • Chapter 2: PCS Cost-Estimating Process.
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... 57 A preliminary filed review form from a real highway reconstruction project was also used in an exercise on functionallevel estimating. Participants were asked to assign activity hours to all the PCS activities required for the project given the information provided within the form.
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... 58 practical approaches that would significantly improve the preconstruction phase of a project. The major findings of this vetting were: • The guidebook is repetitive in some sections; this redundancy should be removed.

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