Can Revit be used to reverse engineer a digital building drawings file for construction estimating and project analysis?

Answer 1

Yes. If you have specifications for a building you can use Revit to find how the amount of materials used in a construction. From there you would need to find costs of various construction elements that go along with the building (pouring concrete vs. cast-in-place, carpentry, interior design, window pricing, etc.).

You can also use this estimate of cost to project how much someone could expect to spend on a building with certain features available.