id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajceb-3864	Amuda Yusuf, Ganiyu; Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri	Perceived benefits of adopting Standard – Based pricing mechanism for mechanical and electrical services installations	2014	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8610	377	44	They suggested that if the method is adopted it would bridge the gap between quantity surveyors’ knowledge and M&E services technology, enable more detailed analysis of M&E service costs, facilitate the collection of more appropriate historic cost information and enable quantity surveyors to make better use of M&E services information. In a seminal work by Nanayakkahara & Fitzsimmons (1999), they developed cost benchmark for buildings services in United Kingdom and examined some of the methods used in forecasting contract price of M&E services and stated that the historical and statistical cost information generally used for M&E services cost estimate lacks quality and consistency as costs are normally averages for similar installations but derived from projects with different attributes; the cost information available from tenders is generally related to the type of product rather than its quality and effectiveness of the management process responsible for developing it; published cost information does not normally identify the costs of project organization and administration, the design process and project management and their impact on construction cost and therefore not suitable for predicting cost of M&E services.	cache/ajceb-3864.pdf	txt/ajceb-3864.txt