| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 423 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The quantity surveyor and the construction industry -- The UK construction industry -- Market drivers -- The building team -- The construction supply chain -- Latham and Egan reports -- The role of professional institutions -- Quantity surveyor -- Project manager -- Architect -- Building surveyor -- Structural engineer -- Civil engineer -- Building services engineer -- Clerk of works -- Site manager/agent -- UK professionals and the EU -- Regulation and control of the construction process -- Planning permission -- Building Regulations -- Health and safety |
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Sustainability and the quantity surveyorLegislative background -- What is sustainability -- Themes for action during the procurement process -- Minimise energy in construction and in use -- Do not pollute -- Set targets -- Site waste management plans -- Ethics and the quantity surveyor -- 2. Forecasting costs and value -- Forecasting costs -- Cost management -- Element -- Cost planning -- Cost control -- Cost analysis -- Cost significant elements -- Design risk -- Price risk -- Approximate estimating techniques -- Interpolation -- Unit method. -- Superficial method -- Approximate quantities -- Builder's quantities -- Elemental cost planning |
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The RICS Code of Measurement Practice, 6th edition (2007)The RICS New Rules of Measurement: Detailed Measurement for Building Works (NRM2) -- Presentation of the bills of quantities -- Measurement conventions -- Anding-on -- Adds and deducts -- Timesing -- Dotting on -- Centre lines and mean girths -- Making a start -- Example 1: Substructure -- Substructure: taking-off list -- Excavation: SMM7 sundry items -- Example 2: Walls from damp-proof course to wall plate -- Brickwork -- Blockwork -- Mortar -- Walls: taking-off list (SMM7 and NRM2) -- Sundry items of masonry (SMM7 and NRM2) -- Example 3: Floors |
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Upper floors: taking-off list (SMM7 and NRM2)Example 4: Roofs (pitched and flat) -- Pitched roofs: taking-off list (SMM7 and NRM2) -- Timber flat roof: taking-off list (SMM7 and NRM2) -- Internal finishes -- Windows, doors and joinery -- Windows -- Softwood windows: taking-off list (NRM2) -- Softwood door: taking-off list (SMM7) -- Internal doors -- Plumbing installations and drainage -- Alterations: spot items -- Specifications -- Traditional (prescriptive) format -- Standard library of descriptions -- Measurement for Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) -- 4. Procurement -- Introduction -- Guidelines to procurement |
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A genealogy of procurement |
| Summary |
"Now substantially revised and fully up-to-date with NRM1 and NRM2, the Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book remains the essential reference for newly qualified and student quantity surveyors. Outlines all of the practical skills, contractual and management techniques needed in the profession with a no-nonsense approach"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Quantity surveying -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Construction -- General.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Construction -- Estimating.
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Quantity surveying
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203114797 |
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0203114795 |
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9781136292552 |
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1136292551 |
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