Contents
- Preface
- 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
- The quantity surveyor
- Project manager
- Architect
- Building surveyor
- Structural engineer
- Civil engineer
- Building services engineer
- The 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
- Sustainability and the quantity surveyor
- Legislative 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
- 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
- Sources of cost information
- Cost planning example at the Concept and Design
- Development Stages (Stages C and D –
- RIBA Outline Plan of Work)
- Price levels
- Other information
- Elemental cost control
- Design and cost
- Forecasting value
- Discounting appraisal techniques
- The property market and development
- Taxation and property development
- Feasibility reports
- Residual method of valuation (developer’s budget)
- Example – feasibility report
- Sources of finance
- Equity
- Debt finance
- Mezzanine finance
- Bonds
- Answering the ‘what if?’ question
- Whole life costs
- Simple aggregation
- Value management/value engineering
- Measurement and quantification
- Measurement practice
- The RICS code of measuring practice, th edition ()
- Presentation of the bills of quantities
- Measurement conventions
- Centre lines and mean girths
- Making a start
- Example – substructure
- Excavation – sundry items
- Working space
- Extra over items
- Example – walls from damp-proof course to wall plate
- Brickwork
- Block work
- Mortar
- Sundry items of masonry
- Example – floors
- Upper floors – taking-off list
- Example – roofs (pitched and fl at)
- Double pitch roofs
- Internal fi nishes
- Windows, doors and joinery
- Windows
- Internal Doors
- Plumbing installations and drainage
- Drainage
- Specifi cations
- Traditional (prescriptive) format
- Standard library of descriptions
- Measurement for Energy Performance
- Certifi cates (EPC)
- Procurement
