For almost 50 years, DCD has been building, accumulating, and maintaining a national historical building cost database (NHBCdb) of actual building costs that can be used for preliminary building cost estimating, cost modeling, project benchmarking, building research and more. The Design Cost Data database has become an essential tool for architects, contractors and other construction professionals.

The NHBCdb is an easy-to-use cost-modeling database that houses over 1,300 actual projects, as featured in DCD magazine, along with up-to-date cost indices. Users can choose from hundreds of building types, select a similar project to what they are looking for, change the bid date and location and quickly produce a new cost model. The actual case study, as it appeared in DCD, is also available to print to include with a new cost model report.

DCD offers access to this massive database Free to the subscribers of DCD. DCD Subscribers have unlimited access to the NHBCdb for the term of their subscription.

Subscribers can access the NHBCdb by simply entering their Subscriber Number (found beside their last name on their DCD mailing label) in the Login Box along with their Email address.

Click here to subscribe and get instant access to the NHBCdb and become a DCD Subscriber. Or feel free to call DCD at 800-533-5680 if you have any questions.