Operational Material

Outline

1 Resource Inputs and Basic Headings

2 Data Requirements

3 Overall Methodology

4 A 7-sheet Survey Questionnaire

5 Overall Validation Process

6 Timetable

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 Classification of the Construction
Sector
3 Categories
3 Basic of Input 50 Input Resources
Headings Resources

Machinery 38 Materials & Products

Residential
Equipment 5 Equipment items
Building
Labor 7 Labour services

Construction Non- Machinery 38 Materials & Products

and Civil Residential Equipment 5 Equipment items

Engineering Building
Labor 7 Labour services

Machinery 38 Materials & Products

Civil
Equipment 5 Equipment items
Engineering
Labor 7 Labour services

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Data Requirements Residential Non Residential Civil Engineer.
Expenditure Value Expenditure Value Expenditure Value

Materials Resource Mix [%] Resource Mix [%] Resource Mix [%]
1 Importance Price Importance Price Importance Price

… Importance Price Importance Price Importance Price

38 Importance Price Importance Price Importance Price

Equipment Resource Mix [%] Resource Mix [%] Resource Mix [%]
1 Hire Rate Hire Rate Hire Rate

… … … …

5 Hire Rate Hire Rate Hire Rate

Labour Resource Mix [%] Resource Mix [%] Resource Mix [%]
1 Labor Rate Labor Rate Labor Rate
… … … …
7 Labor Rate Labor Rate Labor Rate

Contractor’s mark-ups … … …

Professional Fees … … … 4
 Overall Methodology

Basic Heading (BH) breakdown into 3 sub-headings: Materials, Labor,

1
Equipment

Calculate unweighted PPPs for the 3 sub-headings by group of

2
countries

Aggregate the PPPs for the 3 subheadings using the Resource Mixes
3
to obtain weighted PPPs for the 3 BHs

Adjust the 3 BH PPPs for mark ups, professional fees and end-user
4
taxes

Combine the adjusted BH PPPs using expenditures on the BHs as

5
weights to obtain overall PPPs for construction

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 A 7-Sheet Survey Questionnaire

1 Identification Form Introduction

2 Explanatory Notes

3 Material

4 Equipment

5 Technical Labour
5 Survey Forms

Project Prices (Optional – used as checks on

6 input based PPPs)

7 Supporting Information 6
 1. Introduction

1 Country
2 Currency

Survey respondent
3 Name
4 Employer

5 Type of Employer Consultant academic research Govern.t Other

6 Contact details
7 Telephone 8 Email

Purpose of the survey collect mid year national average prices

Base date for prices

9 Please tick box Prices averaged over the year M id year prices

National average price level

10 Geographical base 11 National average factor

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 2. Notes – Item Descriptions
Locally Identical or
available Materials and collect
General equivalent to
Identify and their
notes Commonly services prescribed
items prices
used

Not identical but equivalent

Item If products
Columns
descriptions specs. Proprietary products Report in
10
and units Not metric dimensions

For materials & equipment Report in Column 5

If
alternative For labour Report in Column 4
units of Columns
Other notes (materials,
measure. Report in
equipment, labour) 10, 8 or 7
Report
Number of
Situation
hours
For equipment hire, if per day
In Column 5 In Column 8
If unit not or week
per hour
For labor, if different unit In Column 4 Column 5

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 2. Notes - Prices

Materials Equipment hire Labour

Types of prices
Actual purchasers’ Actual employment
Rental charges
prices cost

Local resource and distribution costs,

Geographical location geographic, seismic or climatic conditions,
local market conditions, etc.

Prices can be Respondents should assume reasonable site

Site context
influenced contexts with good access.

Size of projects The larger the projects, the larger the

quantities, and hence lower unit costs.

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 3. Material – Layout of the questionnaire

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Specifications Pref. Alternati Unit Non Civil
Ref Item Residential Notes and Comments
Notes Unit ve. Unit Price Residential Engineering

Aggregat
Clean, hard,
01 e for
concrete strong
m3 1 1 1

02 1 1

03 1

1 1
36 1

37 1
Typical
Electriv
38
ity
average KWhr 1 1
commercial..

Enter “1” or “*” if important

Comments

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 4. Equipment – Layout of the questionnaire

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Specifications Pref. Alternative. Unit Price with Unit Price without
Ref Item Notes and comments
Notes Unit Unit operator operator

Wheeled loader and 1.0m3 loader

01 excavator hour
capacity

02

03

04

Rated
Compact track
05 capacity: 864 hour
loader
kg

Comments

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 5. Labour – Layout of the questionnaire

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Pref. Alternative. Number of
Ref Item Unit Price Notes and comments
Unit Unit hours

01 General (unskilled) labourers hour

02

03

04

05 Structural steel worker hour

06 Electrician hour

07 Machine (equipment) operator hour

Comments

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 6. Project Prices – Layout of the questionnaire

1 2 3 4 5 6
Pref. Alternative.
Ref Project Type Unit rate Notes and comments
Unit Unit

Single storey average quality detached house masonry m 2 floor m 2 floor

01
(brick or block) or timber frame area area

m 2 floor m 2 floor
Two storey attached house, mass market, centre unit in terrace/
02 area area
row of four units, otherwise as above

03

04

Length of concrete sewer pipes, 0.5m diameter, average 2

10 m length m length
m depth

Length of concrete sewer pipes, 1m diameter, average 3 m

11 m length m length
depth

The collection of project prices is optional as those prices are not essential for the calculation of PPPs. They
can however be used as an additional resource in the validation process.

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 7. Supporting Information – Layout of the
questionnaire
Non Civil
The mix of construction resources Residential
Residential Engineering

01 Construction materials and products

02 Construction equipment

03 Construction site labour

Total project value 100% 100% 100%

Non
Contractors’ mark-ups Residential
Residential
Civil E.

01
Total mark-up of which, general site costs and
temporary works

02 Head office overheads

03 Profit

04 Other contractors costs

Non
Professional Fees Residential
Residential
Civil E.

Overall percentage addition for professional

01
services
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 Example of Resource Mixes
Residential Non-residential

E E
27% 25%
M M
L L
63% 63%
10% 12%

Civil Engineering

M E
47% 23%

L
30%

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 Overall Validation Process

Data Compilation

National Level (Intra-country Validation)

Initial data validation Finalization of data

Regional Level (Inter-country Validation)

Analytical Tables
Initial data Temporal Finalization of
(QT/DT)
validation Analysis Data

Global Level (Inter-country Validation Across Regions)

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 Timetable
2011

Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Price collection will be

conducted between
July and October 2011

Mid year prices to be

reported

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THANK YOU

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