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Environmental Cost Estimating Tools


Environmental Cost Element Structure (ECES) – A standardized, comprehensive, hierarchical list of elements that might be required to accomplish environmental projects. ECES is comprised of activities conducted throughout the life-cycle of a project or program and the essential parameters that impact project cost and schedule. It includes new and baseline technologies, environmental restoration, waste management, decontamination and decommissioning (D&D), long-term stewardship, and other tasks.

Remedial Action Cost Engineering Requirements (RACER) System – A PC-based tool for preparing cost estimates for environmental remediation, which provides location-specific estimates based on annually updated multi-agency pricing data and is suited for estimating full life-cycle costs for CERCLA and RCRA hazardous wastes, petroleum releases, radioactive facility decontamination and decommissioning, and munitions response removal.

Cost Risk – A risk analysis program applied to determine the amount of contingency needed to provide a certain level of confidence in an overall estimate.

Micro-Computer Aided Cost Estimating System (MCACES/M2) – A multi-user software program used to prepare detailed construction cost estimates for military, civil works, and environmental projects.

Cost-To-Complete System – A planning, programming, and budgeting system that supports the estimation and development of credible budgetary requirements and financial statement liabilities for the Navy's environmental restoration program.

IDEAL Estimating System – IDEAL is a feature-rich estimating system used to budget and manage project estimates, from summary level to detail, using wizards, cost models, user-defined estimates, spreadsheets, reports, document management tools, XML exporting, and central libraries to store and share estimates and models. IDEAL was designed to be flexible, so it fits to the needs of users' projects.