As part of my efforts to assist NGO's in the design and fabrication of appropriate water delivery and purification systems for 3rd world villages, I will typically evaluate alternative approaches to problem solutions. Hence, I frequently need approximate costs for various equipment modules, pumps, valves, piping of various sizes/materials, filters, etc. Unfortunately all of my cost engineering texts are woefully out of date. Short of going to a vendor and getting a direct price quote on a given piece of equipment (which I would do for a final design), I would like to know what is the easiest method to get decent cost factors/numbers for equipment (in both the US and elsewhere) for a comparative cost evaluation? I assume that given the availablilty of the Internet for information searches there should be some means to do this.
Thanks.
Getting approximate prices from Internet
Re: Getting approximate prices from Internet
