Amazon.com description: Product Description: Now available in this newly revised and updated edition, this best-selling reference is designed to bring you up to speed in today's competitive market with the latest, most advanced estimating techniques in the industry, saving you hours of time and effort. You'll find numerous quick-reference tables that eliminate many calculations that you previously did yourself. Now you can get instant answers at a glance and take the guesswork out of bidding...prepare accurate bids to win the big money contracts...turn out on-target estimates faster and easier than every before....speed and simplify your estimating chores with instant-reference charts and tables...and accurately analyze and estimate every aspect of each HVAC job. The chapter on budet estimating has been brought completely up to date and reflects current prices. An improtant new section on recovering shop burden has been added, along with a valuable section on productivity which incorporates Dr. Deming's fourteen points.