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Informationen zum Autor Peter Williams has experience as a site engineer, quantity surveyor and building and civil engineering estimator with a number of large contractors. He was also director of a civil engineering and building contracting company. His lecturing career began as a senior lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic, followed by a number of years in industry. He was then appointed principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and became Director of Quantity Surveying and latterly Head of Construction Management Development. Klappentext Offers quantity surveyors, engineers, building surveyors and contractors clear guidance on how to recognise and avoid measurement risk. The book recognises the interrelationship of measurement with complex contractual issues; emphasises the role of measurement in the entirety of the contracting process; and helps to widen the accessibility of measurement beyond the province of the professional quantity surveyor.For the busy practitioner, the book includes:* Detailed coverage of NRM1 and NRM2, CESMM4, Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works and POM(I)* Comparison of NRM2 with SMM7* Detailed analysis of changes from CESMM3 to CESMM4* Coverage of the measurement implications of major main and sub-contract conditions (JCT, NEC3, Infrastructure Conditions and FIDIC)* Definitions of 5D BIM and exploration of BIM measurement protocols* Considerations of the measurement risk implications of both formal and informal tender documentation and common methods of procurement* An identification of pre- and post-contract measurement risk issues* Coverage of measurement risk in claims and final accounts* Detailed worked examples and explanations of computer-based measurement using a variety of industry-standard software packages. Zusammenfassung Offers quantity surveyors, engineers, building surveyors and contractors clear guidance on how to recognise and avoid measurement risk. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xix Author Biography xxiii Acknowledgements xxv Glossary xxvii Addendum xxxi Part 1 Measurement in Construction 1 1 The Role and Purpose of Measurement 3 1.2 The end of measurement or a new beginning? 5 1.3 How's your Latin? 7 1.4 Standardised measurement 10 1.5 Measurement: skill or art? 16 2 Measurement and Design 21 2.1 Introduction 22 2.2 Design 22 2.3 BIM 26 2.4 BIM quantities 32 3 Measurement Conventions 39 3.1 Traditional conventions 39 3.2 Modern conventions 46 3.3 B IM conventions 57 4 Approaches to Measurement 63 4.1 Measurement skills 64 4.2 Uses of measurement 64 4.3 Pareto principle 65 4.4 Measurement documentation 66 4.5 Formal bills of quantities 66 4.6 Formal quasi' bills of quantities 68 4.7 Formal 'operational' bills of quantities 77 4.8 Informal bills of quantities 78 4.9 Quantities risk transfer 81 4.10 Activity schedules 82 4.11 Price lists 94 4.12 Contract sum analyses 95 4.13 Schedules of actual cost 96 Part 2 Measurement Risk 103 5 New Rules of Measurement: NRM1 105 5.1 New rules: New approach 105 5.2 The status of NRM1 106 5.3 Structure of NRM1 108 5.4 Design cost control: Introduction 110 5.5 Design cost control: Techniques 113 5.6 Order of cost estimates 121 5.7 Cost planning 132 5.8 Part 4: Tabulated rules of measurement for elemental cost planning 148 6 New Rules of Measurement: NRM2 161 6.1 Introduction 161 6.2 What is NRM2? 164 6.3 Status of NRM2 165 6.4 NRM2 structure 166 6.5 Part 1: general 167 6.6 Definitions 169 6.7 Part 2: rules for detailed measurement of building works 178 ...
