Service Overview
Cost Estimation
Professional Description
DCON's cost engineering team prepares dependable estimates, quantity take-offs, and commercial analysis from concept stage to bid, contract, and closeout.
Detailed Business Content
DCON specializes in construction cost estimating. As a specific service or as a part of overall construction management, DCON’s construction and engineering cost estimators provide our clients with detailed quantity takeoffs and pricing from a construction project’s conception phase to closeout. DCON maintains databases of historical and current local, national, and international construction and engineering cost figures including labor, material, and equipment costs. DCON is equipped to prepare cost estimates and/or verify proposed construction costs at various stages throughout the construction process for projects around the world. By identifying and analyzing the project’s scope, time, cost, quality, and performance, Spire develops an accurate assessment of how the construction process is unfolding over the course of its duration.
DCON specializes in construction cost estimating as a standalone service or as part of broader project management. We maintain current and historical benchmarks across labor, material, and equipment markets to provide realistic cost projections.
DCON specializes in construction cost estimating as a standalone service or as part of broader project management. We maintain current and historical benchmarks across labor, material, and equipment markets to provide realistic cost projections.
Key Deliverables
- Detail cost estimation and cost planning
- Value engineering cost estimate
- Material Escalation Analysis
- Conceptual project budgets
- Quantity Take-offs
- Unit price analysis including labor, material, equipment
- Life Cycle Costing
- Construction Bid Estimates
- Contract cost review
- Lump Sum Estimates
- Fixed Price Estimates
- Change order evaluation analysis
- Project Closeout Costs
- Claims pricing and evaluation
- Financial & economic analysis
- Application for project financing
- Bill of quantities (BOQ) and tender documents
- Development project proposal (DPP)