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