The script is entitled “Building Estimates and Rates Build Up” .and aims at empowering Technical educators, Technical, Brigades and Community colleges’ students, Apprentices and individuals in the building profession with the necessary skill and knowledge. As an experienced professional in the building industry, quantity surveyor( building material estimator) and a former lecturer for technical colleges, I have realized that there is need to come up with a book that will help students, apprentices and individual builders to easily understand the subject of estimating and rates build up to enable them to apply the skill whenever they have projects.Currently, individual builders, apprentices, and students find it difficult to correctly and accurately estimate the quantities of materials required for proposed projects .Pricing is also a difficult task for most of them as they do not have an idea of how to build up rates.Presently our brigades and technical colleges do not have a relevant book to deal with Estimates. Building Estimates and Rates build up provides a solution to such a problem. The book provides a solution in that it brings together pure mathematics and practical estimation, to avoid a situation whereby students end up failing to realize that the same formulas that are used in Mathematics (math) are applicable in the estimates.I strongly believe that the book will be able to even penetrate the international market.

The script is entitled “Building Estimates and Rates Build Up” .and aims at empowering Technical educators, Technical, Brigades and Community colleges’ students, Apprentices and individuals in the building profession with the necessary skill and knowledge. As an experienced professional in the building industry, quantity surveyor( building material estimator) and a former lecturer for technical colleges, I have realized that there is need to come up with a book that will help students, apprentices and individual builders to easily understand the subject of estimating and rates build up to enable them to apply the skill whenever they have projects.Currently, individual builders, apprentices, and students find it difficult to correctly and accurately estimate the quantities of materials required for proposed projects .Pricing is also a difficult task for most of them as they do not have an idea of how to build up rates.Presently our brigades and technical colleges do not have a relevant book to deal with Estimates. Building Estimates and Rates build up provides a solution to such a problem. The book provides a solution in that it brings together pure mathematics and practical estimation, to avoid a situation whereby students end up failing to realize that the same formulas that are used in Mathematics (math) are applicable in the estimates.I strongly believe that the book will be able to even penetrate the international market.

Abbé Boulah!A collection of strange stories featuring pranks, adventures and cantankerous comments by and about the mysterious Abbé Boulah and his weirdo friend Bog-Hubert. There are tales from the mythical Fog Island Tavern and Bog-Hubert’s schemes such as his Island Beach and Beauty Restoration enterprise, the rumors about his secret still in the swamps of North Florida, (producing the potent “Eau d’Hole”) and various commentaries about architecture, urban design, downtown revitalization: “The Designer’s Dream’, ‘CRA Sticking in Abbé Boulah’s Craw’. and ‘The T-Square and Bumwaderhole’. A yarn of strange foulups in the intelligence agencies (‘Counter Intelligence’), various unconventional machinations about a metropolitan mass transit system (‘Tallahaitian Mass Transit’) are mixed in with Abbé Boulah’s musings about education, (‘Peace Prize Problems’, The Evolution of Education’, ‘The Tragedy of Education’, ‘Plaintive Soliloqy’). on leadership and power (‘Stupid Power’, ‘On Leadership’) a different take on a famous journalist’s book regarding the shape of the Earth (’Flat World Rings Hollow’), presidential elections “Abbé Boulah for Ex-President’), even a kind of utopia on an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico (‘Rigatopia’). Other wild ravings contain creatively different views on various global and societal problems, such as interspecies relations (‘AbbéBug-Lah’), Mideast problems (‘Holy Coin’), the deplorable lack of imaginative names for real, imaginary and complex numbers (‘NameYourNumber.zip’), the human and legal rights of multiple personalities (‘Judge Severin M. Aledict’), and other recklessly unconventional ideas and proposals. But even with a final prank concerning emergency planning in the Sunshine State, the mystery of ‘Who Is Abbé Boulah? never gets completely resolved.

Abbé Boulah!A collection of strange stories featuring pranks, adventures and cantankerous comments by and about the mysterious Abbé Boulah and his weirdo friend Bog-Hubert. There are tales from the mythical Fog Island Tavern and Bog-Hubert’s schemes such as his Island Beach and Beauty Restoration enterprise, the rumors about his secret still in the swamps of North Florida, (producing the potent “Eau d’Hole”) and various commentaries about architecture, urban design, downtown revitalization: “The Designer’s Dream’, ‘CRA Sticking in Abbé Boulah’s Craw’. and ‘The T-Square and Bumwaderhole’. A yarn of strange foulups in the intelligence agencies (‘Counter Intelligence’), various unconventional machinations about a metropolitan mass transit system (‘Tallahaitian Mass Transit’) are mixed in with Abbé Boulah’s musings about education, (‘Peace Prize Problems’, The Evolution of Education’, ‘The Tragedy of Education’, ‘Plaintive Soliloqy’). on leadership and power (‘Stupid Power’, ‘On Leadership’) a different take on a famous journalist’s book regarding the shape of the Earth (’Flat World Rings Hollow’), presidential elections “Abbé Boulah for Ex-President’), even a kind of utopia on an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico (‘Rigatopia’). Other wild ravings contain creatively different views on various global and societal problems, such as interspecies relations (‘AbbéBug-Lah’), Mideast problems (‘Holy Coin’), the deplorable lack of imaginative names for real, imaginary and complex numbers (‘NameYourNumber.zip’), the human and legal rights of multiple personalities (‘Judge Severin M. Aledict’), and other recklessly unconventional ideas and proposals. But even with a final prank concerning emergency planning in the Sunshine State, the mystery of ‘Who Is Abbé Boulah? never gets completely resolved.

Abbé Boulah!A collection of strange stories featuring pranks, adventures and cantankerous comments by and about the mysterious Abbé Boulah and his weirdo friend Bog-Hubert. There are tales from the mythical Fog Island Tavern and Bog-Hubert’s schemes such as his Island Beach and Beauty Restoration enterprise, the rumors about his secret still in the swamps of North Florida, (producing the potent “Eau d’Hole”) and various commentaries about architecture, urban design, downtown revitalization: “The Designer’s Dream’, ‘CRA Sticking in Abbé Boulah’s Craw’. and ‘The T-Square and Bumwaderhole’. A yarn of strange foulups in the intelligence agencies (‘Counter Intelligence’), various unconventional machinations about a metropolitan mass transit system (‘Tallahaitian Mass Transit’) are mixed in with Abbé Boulah’s musings about education, (‘Peace Prize Problems’, The Evolution of Education’, ‘The Tragedy of Education’, ‘Plaintive Soliloqy’). on leadership and power (‘Stupid Power’, ‘On Leadership’) a different take on a famous journalist’s book regarding the shape of the Earth (’Flat World Rings Hollow’), presidential elections “Abbé Boulah for Ex-President’), even a kind of utopia on an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico (‘Rigatopia’). Other wild ravings contain creatively different views on various global and societal problems, such as interspecies relations (‘AbbéBug-Lah’), Mideast problems (‘Holy Coin’), the deplorable lack of imaginative names for real, imaginary and complex numbers (‘NameYourNumber.zip’), the human and legal rights of multiple personalities (‘Judge Severin M. Aledict’), and other recklessly unconventional ideas and proposals. But even with a final prank concerning emergency planning in the Sunshine State, the mystery of ‘Who Is Abbé Boulah? never gets completely resolved.