Design-to-cost aims and processes -- Design-to-cost tools -- Controlling areas -- Option appraisals -- Design-to-cost team reports -- What can go wrong? -- 9 Tenders with cost planning -- Introduction -- Terminology -- Cost plan aims -- Funding and affordability -- Benchmarking -- Cost benchmarking -- Re-basing cost data -- The first cost plan -- Cost plan format -- 'Linear' bill of quantities -- New build and refurbishment -- Pricing the refurbishment of buildings -- Condition surveys -- Furniture, equipment and ICT for a school project -- Fixtures, fittings and medical equipment in hospitals -- Aspects of good practice -- Tender timetable and reviews -- Final review -- Value-drawdown charts -- 10 Quantification for estimating -- Introduction -- Standard methods of measurement -- Level of detail and using COBie -- Bill production for estimators -- 11 Tender planning and method statements -- Introduction -- The role of the planning engineer -- Method statements -- Logistical planning -- Tender programmes -- Tender planning with Building Information Modelling (BIM) -- 12 Resource costs: labour, materials and plant -- Introduction -- Labour rates -- Material rates -- Plant rates -- 13 Unit rate pricing -- Introduction -- Components of a rate -- Method of measurement -- Pricing notes -- Model rate and pricing examples -- 14 Sub-contractors and market testing -- Introduction -- Domestic sub-contractors -- Nominated sub-contractors -- Market testing rates for cost planned tenders -- 15 Risk, opportunities and inflation -- Introduction -- High-level risk assessments -- Risk management -- Collaborative projects -- Risk workshops -- Pricing risks -- Monte Carlo simulation -- Fluctuations -- Standard fluctuations clauses -- Calculation of non-recoverable increases -- Inflation calculations for tenders with cost planning -- 16 Provisional sums and dayworks