PPG Industries

Home Login Subscribenow Signup Issuearchive Costfactors Browseprojects Forgotpassword Help

Your Cart has 0 item(s)

Welcome to the DCD Archives™
Two levels of access are available.
  1. Silver: Full Access/cost data reported by division. Includes the DCD Magazine.
    (basic level)

  2. Gold: Full Access/cost data reported by division/subdivision & ability to edit/customize the project by line item detail. Includes the DCD Magazine.
    (advanced level)
What a Subscription to the DCD Archives Includes:
  • Access to over 1,300 projects and their real cost to build. The DCD Archives is updated with each issue of DCD published increasing the amount of projects.
  • Adjust project regional modifiers and cost escalators for cost modeling.
  • Adjust project total square footage.
  • Professional printer friendly reports
  • Print the actual project as featured in DCD for additional validation
  • Gold level subscribers can save a project to return to later for additional customization or viewing (pick up where you left off)
  • Gold level subscribers can further customize a project by adding, deleting, or changing building cost divisions or subdivisions
“As a full time construction cost estimator, working directly with architects and engineers to develop owner’s budgets from the conceptual stage through bid documents, I find that DCD Magazine and the online database provides a substantial selection of building types, sizes and the historical costs that I can quickly reference on-line. The breakout of divisional costs along with the written descriptions of project specifications provides a solid understanding of what is included in each of the separate areas, thus providing a higher level of estimating confidence when evaluating differences in types of construction. It is also a plus, with the online database, that I can escalate a past project’s cost forward to today’s costs or the future and have regional modifiers factored into my project cost model. DCD Magazine has become a regularly used, valuable tool for our estimating staff to better understand actual costs and how they can be used in future budget estimating.”

Andrew Beebe
Senior Estimator, CPE, LEED-AP
Phoenix Engineering, Inc.

Some of the benefits include:
  • A ‘Go To’ resource like the DCD Archives allow contractors and subcontractors to evaluate new areas of business. Do they want to expand their market into churches from home building, or from schools to medical projects? What costs are associated with the different areas? Subscribers of the DCD Archives can study different types of construction and target those costs to their area.
  • Access to a massive historical project cost database is any estimator’s dream. A historical project cost database is a valuable resource to benchmark costs, determine budgets, to establish a project’s feasibility and more. The DCD Archives has the largest database in the industry of real projects subscribers can work with.
  • A third party check on estimates is a must these days. Owners, contractors, subcontractors, estimators, or other professionals can use the DCD Archives as a ‘quick check’ to validate their estimates.
  • Be responsive to a client’s question. The DCD Archives provides reliable answers quickly with confidence when clients asks, “How much do you think this would cost me to build?” Being able to generate an answer – before plans are drawn – keeps the discussion going and often results in new business.
  • Receive each issue of Design Cost Data for a year via postal delivery.

Call us at 800-533-5680 to order off line or if you have any questions.

Thank you for your business!
Subscription Options
Special Offers
Two-Year Gold Special - FREE 2010 Architects Sq Ft Costbook Plus 2nd Year for a Penny $149.01
Two-Year Gold Special - FREE (Just Released) Sweets Green Building Square Foot Costbook 2010 Plus 2nd Year for a Penny $149.01
Two-Year Gold Special - 2nd Year for a Penny Plus Get a FREE 2010 ENR/DCR Square-Foot Costbook $149.01
2nd Year for a Penny Special! - Two-Year Silver $94.01
Products
Two-Year Gold Subscription $239.00
One-Year Gold Subscription $149.00
Two-Year Silver Subscription $157.00
One-Year Silver Subscription $94.00



Please select the product(s) of your choice. Click on the "Buy Now" button to purchase. One item will be placed in your cart. To remove one item – click Remove and the item will be removed.


The DCD Archives is 100% Guaranteed – if you are not satisfied in any way simply contact us and we will refund you for the term of your subscription that is remaining – no questions asked!


Call us at 800-533-5680 to order off line or if you have any questions. Please visit regularly to view new products and offers from DCD.


Thank you for your business!