About This Book
Walker's Building Estimator's Reference Book is a comprehensive construction industry handbook for calculating building costs, material quantities, and labor productivity. Published by the Frank R. Walker Company and first released in 1915, it remains a standard resource for contractors, estimators, architects, and engineers.
Key Features
- Labor and Material Data: Provides productivity rates, man-hours, and material quantities based on variable job conditions rather than fixed unit prices.
- Reference Materials: Includes hundreds of charts, tables, diagrams, and drawings to help visualize the building process.
- Industry Standard: Widely used in technical schools and required for state contractor licensing exams, including Florida's.
- Current Edition: The 33rd Edition features revised wage rates, estimating fundamentals, and expanded geographic trade data.
Practice Tests Using This Book
This book is required or recommended for 1 licensing exam. We've written 13 practice questions directly from this material, each one citing the chapter and section it comes from.