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| 2025-07-18_estimating-isnt-engineering |
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Estimating Isn't Engineering
A peer recently expressed frustration to me
about the declining quality of construction drawings,
specifically how scope is often required but not detailed.
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TODO: discussion based on the difference between engineering,
(which requires knowledge of subject matter)
and estimation
(which requires knowledge of impact).
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It's not engineering to budget for the most likely case.
Estimators need not know why there tends to be example,
they need need only have basis for applying that generalization to another project.