According to the national standard "Terminology Standard of Project Cost" issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, project cost refers to the construction cost that constitutes the estimated or actual expenditure of the project during the construction period.
The process of forecasting, planning, controlling, accounting, analyzing and evaluating the project cost by comprehensively applying the knowledge and skills of management, economics and engineering technology is called project cost management.
According to the procedures, methods and basis stipulated by laws, regulations and standards, the prediction or determination of project cost and its components is called project valuation. The basis of project valuation includes project measurement valuation standard, project valuation quota and project cost information related to valuation content, valuation method and price standard.
According to the different majors involved, the engineering cost consulting industry can be divided into housing construction engineering cost consulting, municipal construction engineering cost consulting, highway construction engineering cost consulting, railway construction engineering cost consulting, urban traffic construction engineering cost consulting and so on.
According to the different stages of engineering construction, engineering construction consultation can be divided into pre-decision stage consultation, implementation stage consultation, settlement audit stage consultation, whole process engineering cost consultation, engineering cost economic dispute appraisal and arbitration consultation.
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