Now a day’s population is increases and land required for living is decreases so need to construct the multistoried building, for the multistoried building it is necessary to planning and find out the preconstruction cost by using various methods, because of big scale budget. In project management the cost planning is the very important factor, it is the system of cost estimation and cost control for the building during the design and development. The aim of this research is to calculate the preconstruction cost of residential building by using elemental method of estimating and define the terms used in the research. The calculation of quantity required for construction of building is done by using Microsoft Excel with the help of auto cad drawings. If the architectural drawings are accurate, it gives the more accurate cost of project.

Keywords : Data collection,drawings, planning and estimation, Excel, Autocad, Elemental method.