Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed step-by-step guide to taking off building work. It is pitched at a basic introductory level especially suitable for technicians entering the construction industry from school, perhaps intending to follow a trade or technical career. An ideal workbook for students of quantity surveying, construction and civil engineering when learning to measure building work. It introduces students to the most basic aspects of measurement and prepares them for learning the more complex areas of taking off.
The book works through examples based on the measurement of a simple traditional pair of semi-detached (duplex) houses, with the relevant construction technology explained throughout. Although the format largely follows United Kingdom taking-off practice and conventions, it will be directly applicable to international practice in countries broadly following United Kingdom conventions. Each chapter presents a worked example from the substructure, through to mason
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Credits
List of tables
List of figures
Glossary
How to use this book
0.0 Introduction
1.0 Substructure
2.0 Walling
3.0 Roof construction
4.0 Roof coverings
5.0 First floor
6.0 Internal finishings
7.0 Windows, doors and internal fittings
8.0 Bills of quantities
APPENDICES
1 Taking off
2 Bills of quantities – measured works
3 Drawings
4 Specification
5 Exercise – the specification
6 Exercise – the drawings
Index
