Cost estimates in construction. Production reports. ABC software

Programme

Day 1

1. World and historical practice in construction pricing. Trends in changes to legislation on construction pricing in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. Purpose, content and requirements of the state regulatory document NDTsS RK 8.01-08-2022 «Main methodological provisions for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Requirements of the Procedure for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan».
3. The meaning and purpose of the NDTsS RK, basic concepts and terminology, practical application in the construction industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Specifics of application in the industrial and sector segments of the economy. Investment projects and state budget financing.
4. Estimate regulatory documents in construction. Types of new estimate standards, their purpose and use.
5. Main requirements and conditions of construction pricing. Relations between the participants in the investment process in construction.
6. Composition and types of estimate documentation, formatting requirements. Purpose, content and rules for preparing output document forms.
7. Composition and structure of the estimated cost of construction. Classification and types of costs in the estimated cost of construction.
8. Preparing estimate documentation for construction. Requirements of the Procedure for preparing a complete set of estimate documentation for a construction project.
9. Specifics of calculating construction cost using aggregated cost indicators. Applying aggregated construction cost indicators and aggregated indicators by type of work at various design stages.
10. Specifics of determining the estimated cost of construction within the pilot project.
11. Specifics of determining the estimated cost of construction when adjusting estimate documentation.
12. Determining the estimated cost of engineering surveys for construction.
13. Determining the estimated cost of design work for construction.
14. Determining the estimated cost of engineering services in construction.

Day 2

1. Determining the estimated cost of commissioning work when putting construction facilities into operation. Requirements of the Procedure for preparing a complete set of estimate documentation for commissioning work.
2. Main innovations in the methods for preparing output documents. Overview of the composition and content of the estimate documentation forms recommended by the Procedure.
3. NDTsS RK 8.04-09-2022. Estimate norms for additional costs. Costs of organising and managing construction. Accounting in the estimate documentation for funds to cover the contractor's expenses related to carrying out construction for the site as a whole.
4. NDTsS RK 8.04-07-2023. Cost indices for construction. Purpose and application in developing design and estimate documentation and recording completed work.
5. Developing the estimate and economic section of construction projects using the ABC system. The updated edition of ABC 2023.
6. Technology for forming the price of construction products taking into account the new methodological approaches to pricing.
7. Preparing the bill of quantities and ways of including estimate items in the local estimate.
8. Working with the Republic's estimate standards base. The INFO subsystem. The ABC knowledge base.
9. Tools for developing local estimates: the «Sites» functionality. The ABC table editor. The ABC text editor. Structural and technological grouping of data in estimate documentation. User items.
10. New economic categories in pricing and their implementation in ABC. Unit estimate prices, estimate labour cost prices, estimate machine operation prices. Specifics of applying unit estimate prices and elemental estimate norms when preparing the bill of quantities. Accounting for labour and wages by construction trade and grade. Estimate tariff rates.
11. Estimate labour cost prices. Their economic meaning, purpose and application. Content of estimate prices for the operation of construction machinery and mechanisms. Specifics of application in cost estimates. Freight transport for construction.
12. Accounting for transport costs, forming estimate prices for materials, products, structures, engineering equipment, furniture and inventory using the «Transport cost calculation and material cost calculation» functionality.
13. Specifics of forming the estimate price of equipment and accounting for delivery methods of process and engineering equipment in local estimates.
14. Accounting for the requirements of regulatory documents, general provisions, technical parts and work conditions when applying unit estimate prices and elemental estimate norms in developing local estimates. Purpose and application of ABC adjustments. Specifics of accounting for overheads and estimate profit in local estimates and in the summary construction cost estimate. Purpose and application of construction indices in estimate documentation. Specifics of applying indices in the current year and in future periods in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Day 3

1. Applying aggregated estimate standards. Collections of aggregated cost indicators for structures and types of work. Collections of aggregated cost indicators for the construction of buildings and structures. Non-production facilities.
2. Production by design organisations of estimate documentation in the recommended output document forms, using resource ranking for the estimator's effective work. Composition and types of integral estimate documentation provided for by the current regulatory documents on construction pricing. Forming comprehensive assessments for facilities and sites in terms of: cost; resource requirements; volumes of work; required equipment.
3. Producing facility estimates, summary cost estimates and other integral documents. Capabilities of the «Sites» functionality. Technology for the automated preparation of a set of estimate documentation based on the results of local estimate calculations when contractors prepare an offer. Tools for preparing the contract for work. Preparing the contract price schedule. Exporting the results of local estimate calculations for a facility or site to KENML format for transfer to the customer and to expert review organisations.
4. Specifics of recording completed work in contractor organisations. The link between the construction period and the methodological provisions in force at the time of concluding the contract. Recording tools in the «Sites» functionality. Applying construction indices in certificates of completed work. Development of the ABC line of software products. Applying building information modelling technology in integration with ABC. Purpose, interrelation and characteristics of the software products ABC-KZ, ABC-PIR, AKKORD POS, AKKORD Prof, ABC-Recompositor, ABC-USN.
5. Estimating as part of building information modelling. BIM requirements for determining construction cost and further developing the information model from 3D to 5D at the various stages of the construction product life cycle. Using BIM models in preparing estimate documentation. The estimator's tools for working with the information model. Scheduling tools in the ABC software products AKKORD POS and AKKORD Prof. Their application for converting the information model to 5D.
6. Developing construction organisation plans and work execution plans. Ensuring the safety of ABC user data. Tools for saving user data in ABC. Copying operational files, sites and user items. Tools for working with output results, forming information data blocks for a facility (site) for developing construction organisation plans and work execution plans.
7. Practical sessions with ABC 2024. Developing estimate documentation. Working with the Republic's estimate standards base of «KazNIISA JSC». A standard example.
8. Preparing the bill of quantities; analysing and adjusting resources; forming estimate resource prices. Tools and techniques for forming the structure of the estimate and the bill of quantities. Analysing the state of resources, bringing resource results into a state corresponding to the design. Forming estimate resource prices by estimate, facility and site, calculating transport costs and calculating estimate prices for materials, products, structures and equipment.
9. Producing facility estimates, summary construction cost estimates, summary resource statements, the summary statement of requirements for basic materials, products, structures and equipment (Appendix E of SN RK 1.02-03-2022), preparing the customer's estimate for expert review. Specifics of preparing summary construction cost estimates.
10. Preparation by the contractor of a commercial proposal — an offer (contractor's estimate) for participation in a procurement tender for construction and installation work.
11. Practical sessions in the ABC estimating system. Contracting: preparing the contract for work, recording completed volumes of work. Consultation on applying ABC 2023, its new capabilities and current changes.
12. The contract price schedule. Purpose and content. The difference between the previously used catalogue of unit contract rates and the contract price schedule. Preparing the contract for work based on the recommendations of NDTsS RK 8.01-08-2022 «Procedure for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan» on accounting for certain types of costs when preparing the contractor's estimate and accepting completed work in construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
13. Recording completed volumes of work. Preparing certificates of completed work (Form 2V), certificates of the cost of construction and installation work, material resource reports M29-2, keeping the work log and the cumulative statement KS-6.
14. Analysis of situations concerning the safety of ABC user data. Tools for saving user data in ABC. Copying operational files, sites, user items and data on completed volumes of work.
15. Consultations, answers to questions, explanations of methodological materials.
16. Applying aggregated estimate standards. Collections of aggregated indicators.