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Quantity surveyor's pocket book / Duncan Cartlidge.
By: Cartlidge, Duncan P [author.]
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BookPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Third edition.Description: xii, 466 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138698369 (paperback); 9781138698352 (hardback).Subject(s): Quantity surveying -- Handbooks, manuals, etcAdditional physical formats: Electronic version.: Quantity surveyor's pocket book.DDC classification: 692.5 Also available in electronic form.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The third edition of the Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book has been updated in line with NRM1, NRM2 and NRM3, and remains a must-have guide for students and qualified practitioners. Its focused coverage of the data, techniques and skills essential to the quantity surveying role makes it an invaluable companion for everything from initial cost advice to the final account stage.
Key features and updates included in this new edition:
an up-to-date analysis of NRM1, 2 and 3; measurement and estimating examples in NRM2 format; changes in procurement practice; changes in professional development, guidance notes and schemes of work; the increased use of NEC3 form of contract; the impact of BIM.This text includes recommended formats for cost plans, developer's budgets, financial reports, financial statements and final accounts. This is the ideal concise reference for quantity surveyors, project and commercial managers, and students of any of the above.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in electronic form.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. xiv)
- 1 The quantity surveyor and the construction industry (p. 1)
- The UK construction industry (p. 1)
- Market drivers (p. 2)
- Industry reports (p. 5)
- The building team (p. 8)
- The construction supply chain (p. 8)
- The role of professional institutions (p. 9)
- Quantity surveyor (p. 10)
- Project manager (p. 17)
- Architect (p. 18)
- Building surveyor (p. 19)
- Structural engineer (p. 19)
- Civil engineer (p. 19)
- Building services engineer (p. 21)
- BIM manager/co-ordinator (p. 22)
- Clerk of works (p. 23)
- Site manager/agent (p. 24)
- UK professionals and the EU (p. 24)
- Regulation and control of the construction process (p. 25)
- Planning permission (p. 25)
- Building regulations (p. 26)
- Health and safety - CDM regulations (p. 27)
- Sustainability and the quantity surveyor (p. 30)
- Legislative background (p. 31)
- Themes for action during the procurement process (p. 35)
- Minimise energy in construction and in use (p. 36)
- Do not pollute (p. 36)
- Set targets (p. 36)
- Site waste management plans (p. 37)
- The RICS New Rules of Measurement (NRM) initiative (p. 37)
- Ethics and the quantity surveyor (p. 38)
- Building information modelling (BIM) (p. 39)
- Early BIM adoption (p. 40)
- What is BIM? (p. 41)
- Challenges for BIM (p. 42)
- What impact will BIM have on quantity surveying practice? (p. 43)
- Soft landings (p. 43)
- 2 Forecasting costs and value (p. 45)
- Cost management (p. 45)
- Element (p. 45)
- Cost planning (p. 47)
- Cost control (p. 47)
- Cost analysis (p. 48)
- Cost significant elements (p. 49)
- Risk allowances (p. 50)
- RICS NRM1: Order of cost estimating and cost planning for capital building works (p. 50)
- Cost estimating techniques (p. 50)
- Floor area or m 2 method (p. 50)
- Functional unit method (p. 52)
- Elemental method (p. 52)
- Interpolation (p. 52)
- Approximate quantities (p. 53)
- Builder's quantities (p. 54)
- Elemental cost planning (p. 54)
- Sources of cost information (p. 56)
- Price levels (p. 57)
- Other information (p. 59)
- RICS New Rules of Measurement, NRM1 (2nd edition) (p. 61)
- RICS NRM1: Order of cost estimate format (p. 63)
- RICS NRM1: Formal cost plans 1, 2 and 3 (p. 67)
- Elemental cost control (p. 67)
- Design and cost (p. 69)
- Forecasting value (p. 71)
- Sinking funds (p. 72)
- Discounting appraisal techniques (p. 77)
- NRM3: Order of cost estimating and cost planning for building maintenance works (p. 79)
- The property market and development (p. 81)
- Taxation and property development (p. 81)
- Feasibility reports (p. 82)
- Residual method of valuation (developer's budget) (p. 86)
- Sources of finance (p. 92)
- Equity (p. 93)
- Debt finance (p. 94)
- Mezzanine finance (p. 95)
- Bonds (p. 95)
- Answering the 'what if?' question (p. 95)
- Whole-life costs (p. 98)
- Simple aggregation (p. 101)
- Value management/value engineering (p. 105)
- 3 Measurement and quantification (p. 109)
- Measurement practice (p. 109)
- The RICS professional statement: RICS property measurement (1st edition) (p. 109)
- Methods of measurement of building works (p. 115)
- Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works (p. 121)
- Presentation of the bills of quantities (p. 129)
- Measurement conventions (p. 130)
- Anding-on (p. 132)
- Adds and deducts (p. 132)
- Timesing (p. 134)
- Dotting-on (p. 135)
- Centre lines and mean girths (p. 135)
- Making a start (p. 135)
- Example 1 Substructure (p. 139)
- Substructure, taking-off list (p. 139)
- Example 2 Walls from damp-proof course to wall plate (p. 149)
- Brickwork (p. 149)
- Blockwork (p. 150)
- Mortar (p. 150)
- Walls: taking-off list (p. 151)
- Sundry items of masonry (p. 155)
- Example 3 Floors (p. 158)
- Upper floors: taking-off list (p. 160)
- Example 4 Roofs (pitched and flat) (p. 161)
- Pitched roofs: taking-off list (p. 162)
- Trussed rafters (p. 162)
- Timber flat roof: taking-off list (p. 171)
- Internal finishes (p. 179)
- Windows, doors and joinery (p. 182)
- Windows (p. 186)
- Softwood windows: taking-off list (p. 186)
- Softwood door: taking-off list (p. 186)
- Internal doors (p. 193)
- Plumbing installations and drainage (p. 198)
- Alterations: spot items (p. 206)
- Specifications (p. 211)
- Types of specification (p. 212)
- Traditional (prescriptive) format (p. 212)
- Standard library of descriptions (p. 218)
- Performance Specifications (p. 219)
- 4 Procurement (p. 221)
- Guidelines to procurement (p. 221)
- A genealogy of procurement (p. 223)
- Risk and procurement (p. 227)
- Traditional procurement (p. 228)
- Preparation, Stages 0 & 1: Strategic Definition and Preparation and Brief (p. 230)
- Design, Stages 2 & 3: Concept Design and Developed Design (p. 230)
- Pre-construction, Stages 3 & 4: Developed Design and Technical Design (p. 232)
- Tender evaluation (p. 233)
- Risk allocation (p. 234)
- Bills of reduction (p. 235)
- Two-stage competitive tendering (p. 235)
- Stage 1 (p. 236)
- Stage 2 (p. 237)
- Critical, success factors (p. 238)
- Design and build and variants (p. 238)
- Traditional design and build (D&B) (p. 238)
- Management procurement (p. 240)
- Management contracting (p. 240)
- Construction or contract management (p. 242)
- Design and manage (p. 243)
- Cost reimbursement contracts (p. 243)
- Partnering (p. 244)
- Cultural issues (p. 245)
- Commercial issues (p. 246)
- Key success factors (p. 246)
- Alliancing (p. 248)
- Prime contracting (p. 250)
- Frameworks (p. 252)
- Public-private partnerships (PPPs) (p. 253)
- The procurement process (p. 254)
- The private finance initiative (PFI) (p. 255)
- E-Procurement (p. 260)
- A surveyor within a public body (p. 261)
- EU public procurement (p. 261)
- European public procurement law (p. 262)
- The Directives; theory and practice (p. 262)
- The EU procurement procedure (p. 263)
- Award procedures (p. 263)
- Electronic tendering (p. 269)
- Technical specifications (p. 269)
- Pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ) (p. 271)
- 5 Pricing and tendering (p. 273)
- Subcontractors (p. 273)
- Named or nominated? (p. 274)
- Domestic subcontractors (p. 275)
- Named subcontractors (p. 276)
- Nominated subcontractors (p. 277)
- The nomination process (p. 278)
- Collateral warranties (p. 279)
- Calculating bill rates using domestic subcontractors (p. 279)
- Unit rate and operational estimating (p. 279)
- Operational estimating (p. 279)
- Unit rate estimating (p. 280)
- Labour costs (p. 280)
- Materials (p. 287)
- Plant (p. 287)
- Overheads (p. 291)
- Profit (p. 291)
- Preliminaries (p. 291)
- Section 5 Excavating and filling (p. 294)
- Section 8 Underpinning (p. 300)
- Section 11 In situ concrete work (p. 300)
- Section 13 Precast concrete (p. 305)
- Section 14 Masonry (p. 306)
- Section 16 Carpentry (p. 312)
- Section 17 Sheet roof coverings (p. 313)
- Section 18 Tile and slate roof and wall coverings (p. 314)
- Section 19 Waterproofing (p. 321)
- First and second fix (p. 321)
- Section 22 General joinery (p. 322)
- Section 24 Doors, shutters and hatches and associated ironmongery (p. 324)
- Section 27 Glazing (p. 326)
- Section 28 Floor, wall, ceiling and roof finishes (p. 327)
- Section 29 Decoration (p. 333)
- Section 33 Drainage above ground (p. 335)
- Section 34 Drainage below ground (p. 336)
- Sections 35-37 External works (p. 339)
- Section 38 Mechanical services (p. 340)
- Pro rata pricing (p. 340)
- Managing the pricing process (p. 340)
- Tender adjudication (p. 341)
- E-Tendering (p. 342)
- E-Auctions (p. 348)
- Reverse auctions (p. 349)
- 6 Contract procedure, administration and organisation (p. 350)
- Part 1 Contract procedure (p. 350)
- Types of contract (p. 351)
- Standard forms of contract (p. 351)
- JCT Standard Building Contract 2016 edition (p. 354)
- JCT Intermediate Building Contract (IC) (p. 355)
- JCT Minor Works Building Contract (MW): with contractor's design (MWD) (p. 356)
- JCT Design and Build Contract (DB) (p. 357)
- JCT Design and Build Sub-Contracts (DBSub/A and DBSub/C) (p. 357)
- JCT Major Project Construction Contract (MP) (p. 357)
- JCT Management Building Contract (MC) (p. 362)
- JCT Prime Cost Building Contract (PCC) (p. 363)
- JCT Measured Term Contract (MTC) (p. 363)
- JCT Construction Management Trade Contract (CM/TC) (p. 363)
- Collateral warranties (p. 363)
- Other forms of contract (p. 363)
- NEC form of contract (p. 366)
- GC/Works range of contracts (p. 370)
- ICE Conditions of Contract (p. 372)
- International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) (p. 373)
- Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) (p. 374)
- The Scottish Building Contract Committee (SBCC) (p. 375)
- Insurances, bonds, guarantees and collateral warranties (p. 376)
- Part 2 Contract administration (p. 385)
- Dayworks (p. 385)
- Recording dayworks (p. 387)
- Fluctuations (p. 387)
- Time and the contract (p. 391)
- Interim valuations (p. 395)
- The Fair Payment Charter (p. 397)
- Insolvency (p. 404)
- Dispute resolution (p. 412)
- Part 3 Site organisation (p. 416)
- Welfare facilities (p. 416)
- Planning the site layout (p. 416)
- Planning and programming (p. 417)
- Critical path analysis and PERT charts (p. 418)
- 7 Final account (p. 420)
- The variation account (p. 421)
- Measurement and pricing of variations (p. 423)
- Provisional quantities (p. 423)
- Pro rata pricing (p. 424)
- Final account standard format (p. 426)
- Useful links and contacts (p. 437)
- Further reading (p. 442)
- Useful measurement rules and conventions (p. 445)
- Index (p. 449)