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11-11-2016, 05:06 PM
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So you want to go by someone who don't know construction vs someone who has built buildings?
Never saw an economist with a hard hat?
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The materials alone are double Trump's estimate.
So no, I don't trust that Trump knows a damn thing about construction except how to act as a con man to sell it.
An Engineer does the Cost Estimate of Trump's Wall - Album on Imgur
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Going off of materials estimate we have… 167,272,000 cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete at $93/cubic yard = $15,556,296,000 1,030,000 segments of 10’ pre-cast panels at $17/panel = $17,510,000 2,500,000 tons of steel rebar at $600/ton = $1,500,000,000
Total Material Cost Estimate:$17,073,806,000
$17 Billion!! To give you a mild idea of how much that is, $17 billion is roughly NASA's yearly operating budget.
And let’s take a reality check for a moment: this is only a rough materials costs for the project. I haven’t yet taken into account the cost of labor or machinery, not to mention the millions of dollars it would cost for design work, surveying, and land acquisition. If I had an RSmeans book (construction estimating tool) handy I would be able to do a more in depths cost estimate of this Wall.
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I know, I know...those pesky things called 'facts' again. 
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