Design Cost Data is the cost estimating magazine for architects, contractors, engineers, cost estimators, insurers, building owners, appraisers, and construction financiers. 

Published bi-monthly, DCD is the only magazine that establishes a proprietary cost estimating system for determining building costs before architectural plans are drawn – all based on actual historical construction cost data modeled to bid time and location. DCD publishes actual building costs of all types – broken out in the CSI MasterFormat™. 

DCD has accumulated and maintained over 1,100 actual buildings in the National Historical Building Cost Database (NHBCdb™) for access by all current and future paid DCD subscribers. Subscribers have open access to the NHBCdb for online cost modeling to develop reliable preliminary or conceptual square foot building costs estimates, building cost feasibilities, cost budgets, and more.