Study On Cost Control At Design Stage Of Construction Project

With establishment of socialism market economy, it becomes co-expectation of government, enterprises and owners to acquire optimum social and economic returns with limited fund. Cost control at the design stage can effectively reduce engineering cost, enhances the investment benefit by use of pre-control thought, so how to control engineering cost at design stage effectively becomes an urgent problem.The essay represents the importance of the conversion from norm management to engineering cost management according to features of foreign cost management and cost management reform in our country. On the basis of analysis of engineering cost influencing factors at design stage, some methods and hopeful proposals are introduced to determine and control engineering cost at design stage.After determination of target value of cost control, scientific approach will be used to control the engineering cost. In the essay, design schemes are selected and optimized by use of value engineering to acquire optimal general effects; and quota design and standardized design are promoted to decrease cost and construction time. At last, the methods presented in the essay are proved to be valuable to control engineering cost at design stage effectively by demonstration of case history.