It includes software, a database of 850 historical projects, cost escalators and regional modifiers. Nothing is built without a budget.
Nothing is built without a cost plan.
In fact, it is the lack of proper cost modeling that sounds the death knoll on many a project. This is D4COST 2002's specialty, and no one does it better, faster or more efficiently. On any division, you are allowed to adjust the quality of the item, by adding or taking value away. Each line item in a cost model can be adjusted to fit the needs of your cost model. Whether you are building a new high school or building a skyscraper.