Division 14 / Estimated

Division 14 conveying equipment estimating

The equipment is a quote. The cost that gets missed is everything the equipment needs from other divisions, and on removal, everything it leaves behind.

What we measure, and in what units

EA units by type
EA stops
LF travel
EA removals including rigging

What the deliverable looks like for this division

Units, stops and travel from the schedule, with the shaft, pit, machine room, power and structural opening work identified and passed to the divisions that carry them, so they are priced once and by someone.

Scope items routinely missed on this division

Only someone who has priced the work knows what falls through the gaps. No competitor publishes this list.

Shaft, pit and machine room work that sits in Divisions 03, 05, 09 and 26 and is coordinated by nobody unless someone lists it.
Escalator removal, including rigging, the crane or hoist window, protection of the floors below, and the structural opening left behind.
Hoistway venting, sump and pit ladder, and the fire rated doors at every landing.

Documents needed to price it

The elevator or escalator schedule and specification
Shaft sections and machine room plans
For removal: the original equipment drawings and the structural drawings of the opening

Questions people in this trade actually ask

Is the equipment in your number?

As the manufacturer’s quote where one exists, and as an allowance clearly labelled as one where it does not. The surrounding work is measured.

How is an escalator removal priced?

As its own operation with its own assumptions covering rigging, the structural opening and temporary protection, separated from the demolition line it usually hides in.

Work of this kind