Abstract:
Local administrations have to provide the system of public service, leading to many employments in constructions. To control the budget effectively, the committee is assigned to set the reference price following the principles provided by the government. However, the mistake is still occurred and the government loss the properties. The objective of this paper is to study the construction cost estimating skills of committee on reference price of the local administration in Chiang Rai. The data collection tool is a questionnaire.
The result shows that the civil engineering group from civil work division has very good skills of construction cost esitimate while the group from other division has medium skills. To increase the efficiency of cost estimate, the local governments have to set the suitable composition of committee and set the role of committee that appropriate to the skills. Furthermore, the local administrations should send the committee to take the course of cost estimate and follow up the change of cost estimate principle frequently"