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This book provides detailed guidance to taking off building work using illustrated examples. It's an ideal workbook especially for technicians entering the construction industry from school considering a trade or technical career, or students of quantity surveying, construction and civil engineering when learning to measure building work.
List 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
About the author
Andy Atkinson is a chartered quantity surveyor with a background in consultancy and public service. With 35 years’ experience lecturing in measurement of building work and contract administration at London South Bank University, he has acted as principal and co-investigator for several publicly funded research projects. Formerly a member of the Joint Contracts Tribunal BIM Working Group, examining methods for adapting JCT contracts to building information modelling, Andy is the author of the JCT Contract Administration Pocket Book (Routledge 2020). He also maintains a small surveying consultancy.
Summary
This book provides detailed guidance to taking off building work using illustrated examples. It's an ideal workbook especially for technicians entering the construction industry from school considering a trade or technical career, or students of quantity surveying, construction and civil engineering when learning to measure building work.
