The project cost is the construction price of the project. Project cost refers to the total cost of a project construction, and its core contents are investment estimation, design estimation, revision estimation, construction drawing budget, project settlement and final accounts of completion.
The project cost mainly includes these contents: construction engineering cost (civil engineering and installation specialty), highway engineering cost, water transportation engineering cost, railway engineering cost, water conservancy engineering cost, power engineering cost, communication engineering cost, aerospace engineering cost, etc.
Present situation of engineering cost industry
Pay more attention to cost control than reasonably determining the cost.
Project cost management has always attached importance to cost control, ignoring the reasonable determination of cost, and it is difficult to handle the relationship between the two. For a long time, China's project cost management has focused on the construction stage, only paying attention to the contract price, change cost and settlement price of the construction project, but not paying enough attention to the cost management in the investment decision-making stage. The fundamental reason lies in the misunderstanding of project cost management personnel in China, who think that the investment estimation in the feasibility study stage and the design estimation in the preliminary design stage of the project are virtual funds and need not be taken seriously, but the change cost and settlement price in the implementation stage of the construction project are real and need to be treated with caution.
Generally speaking, the settlement price cannot be higher than the estimated price. Once there are design changes or material changes in the construction process, in order to cope with the cost control of the regulatory authorities, the construction party may shoddy, resulting in the construction quality can not be guaranteed, and what is more serious is the situation of "falling off the building" after the acceptance of the real estate.
The engineering cost consulting service lacks integrity.
At present, the business scope of many engineering cost consulting units only includes a certain stage or even a part of a certain stage of project construction. Project legal persons often need to choose different cost consulting companies at different stages of project construction, which makes the cost consulting service of the whole project lack integrity.
Lack of professional engineering cost engineers
The key to the sustainable development of engineering cost consulting industry is to strengthen the training of engineering cost consulting talents and continuously improve the quality of engineering cost practitioners. Since the establishment of the qualification system of cost engineers in China, cost engineers have played an increasingly important role in the engineering cost consulting market.
However, the passing rate of the annual qualification examination for cost engineers is relatively small, which leads to a large employment gap in the market, which depends on the establishment of engineering cost specialty in colleges and universities and the in-depth development of the qualification examination training for cost engineers.
The legal system in the field of construction project cost is not perfect.
Incompatible policies and lack of supervision mechanism in the field of construction project cost have led to serious irregularities in the management of construction project cost, such as contracting at a reduced price, contracting by dismemberment, construction with advance funds, designated subcontracting, etc., which have seriously hindered the healthy development of the construction project field and caused the project cost to be out of control and serious "three excesses" (budgetary estimate exceeding budgetary estimate, budgetary estimate exceeding budgetary estimate and final accounts exceeding budgetary estimate). This situation makes it difficult to determine the responsibility, and as a result, the project cost rises.