Andrew S Ely

US Patent:

20100088240, Apr 8, 2010

Filed:

Jul 1, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/496417

Inventors:

Andrew J. Ely - Wilton CT, US
Radhakrishna Reddi - Kew Gardens NY, US

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00
G06Q 50/00

US Classification:

705301, 705348

Abstract:

A computer system for determining an escalated estimated project cost and an estimated schedule for a project including a plurality of activities having a plurality of cost items. The computer system is operable to determine: a critical path for the project based on the amount of critical days to include on the critical path for each activity, a pre-escalation cost for each cost item of each activity, a pre-escalation cost for each activity, a pre-escalation total project cost, a cost escalation for each activity, a cost escalation for the project, and an escalated estimated cost of the project, and the computer system is operable to generate a report of the pre-escalation total project cost, the escalated estimated project cost, and the estimated project schedule based on the critical path.