Estimator's Piping Man-hours Tool

by Gustavo Miguel Cinca

The Author of this Manual, has an expertise of 45 years in his professional work as Head of Work, Project Manager and finally as president of a Company of Constructions and Industrial Assemblies in different plants of Chemical Processes, Refineries, Pipelines, Gas Compressors and Thermal Power plants of their country and abroad, exercising the direction of the works and the control of the resources used for their execution, particularly in the case of installation of piping. This Manual that gives the Reader is the fruit of that Technical Expertise.

Tables for calculating manpower in Piping

The direct man-hours indicated in the 14 (fourteen) tables of this Manual have been verified by the Author during the Piping assemblies of the different installations.

Estimating Man hours for piping installation

It is important to understand that there are no identical projects or jobs in this business and that it is not possible to automate or copy. The approach to respect is that any estimate work should be serious and professional, this Manual provides the Reader with a precise and convenient method to estimate the direct work in Piping installations for each specific project. In the content of this book, the Reader will access simple and reliable procedures to realize the estimates.

Examples of calculating Piping installations

In the Manual the Author presents complete calculation examples of Piping installations, based on the man-hours indicated by the tables to later apply the corrections or adjustments needed for each Project.

Estimators and Proprietors of Companies

The purpose of this publication is to give the estimator and the business owner a reliable instrument for the unique task of estimating man-hours with precision.