School estimating task.

[stgeorge]

I have a paper to finish and need some guidance.
This is the question:
Estimate how much it would be to carry out the the following work.
1) Disconnect 300Amp UPS and re-locate to adjacent room.
2) Re-wire UPS into facility power in adjacent room as well as connections to the bypass switch, main breaker panel and located sub-panels.

I have looked at a few online programs to help including "exactimate" but they all give me different amounts and different times. Can anyone advise on the best programs to use and where i could find it?
Any help is apreciated.

[DAWGS]

Your best program is your own personnel experience. Second best is an estimating program or labor unit book. Everyone here could come up with a different time frame on how long it should take to do the work.

[480sparky]

Not near enough information to even venture an educated guess.

What's between the two adjacent rooms? Steed studs & drywall, or solid concrete/CMU wall? Is it fire rated? Is the epuipment locations back-to-back? Are you able to disconnect the equipment above a suspended ceiling and the go from there? If so, are you needing to extend the circuits, or can you simply cut them back to re-route them. Or, do the circuits happen to run under a concrete slab?

[nakulak]

the task was for you to estimate the job. what do you hope to gain by having a computer program do it for you ? If you want to learn what the task is intending to teach you, then perform it manually. Otherwise you are just wasting your time and the time of your instructors - quit school and go pump gas or flip burgers.

[mdshunk]

It would be my luck that panel in the adjacent room would take some breaker they haven't made in 40 years, and I'd have to special order it from a broker and totally blow the profit. Check into that.