Building & Surveying
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A comprehensive, up-to-date and illustrated exposition of building maintenance in all its aspects, to serve the needs of building surveyors and other professionals involved in this activity and building, surveying and architectural students. It shows the great importance of properly maintaining buildings and the advisability of providing adequate feedback to the design team. All the main building defects are described and illustrated and the appropriate remedial measures examined. Alterations and improvements to buildings and the specifying, measurement, pricing, tendering and contractual procedures are all examined, described and illustrated. In addition, the planning and financing, execution and supervision of maintenance work receive full consideration.
This volume considers the general background to civil engineering works and contracts, including funding, preliminary investigations and the preparation of engineers' reports. The form and purpose of the various contract documents are examined, and the principal requirements of the ICE conditions summarized and explained. The principal tendering arrangements are described and compared, together with the more commonly practised approaches to estimating the cost of civil engineering works. One of the major problems encountered in the operation of civil engineering contracts is a weakness in communication between parties to the contract and site personnel. Vital communication requirements are described and illustrated, including the preparation of site documents and records, and the purpose and conduct of site meetings. The method of measuring and valuing civil engineering works is explored and this encompasses the use of daywork, issue of interim certificates, settlement of final accounts, valuation of variations and financial control of contracts.
Finally, the book examines the background to contractors' claims and how they should be presented by the contractor and dealt with by the engineer. It also examines the effect of European Community harmonization arrangements, and discusses the operation of quality assurance in civil engineering.
Finally, the book examines the background to contractors' claims and how they should be presented by the contractor and dealt with by the engineer. It also examines the effect of European Community harmonization arrangements, and discusses the operation of quality assurance in civil engineering.
Describes and examines the basic constructional techniques, choice and use of materials and the statutory requirements for domestic buildings. The text is generously supported by more than 60 pages of drawings and sketches. It is aimed at first and second year students in a wide variety of discplines. This latest reset edition has been revised, updated and extended to take account of latest techniques and amendments to British Standards and the Building Regulations. A new chapter has been added on the important aspects of sound and thermal insulation, dampness, ventilation and condensation.
This book covers the whole range of skills and knowledge that modern quantity surveyors require to perform their work efficiently and effectively. The text has been thoroughly revised and substantially extended to enhance its value to the reader. All the basic skills of the quantity surveyor in construction procurement, contract administration and cost control and management are dealt with in sufficient detail to meet the needs of students. The newly developing areas of project management and value management are examined and illustrated in a practical way.
This text explains the principles contained in the third edition of the "Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement" (CESMM3), and shows how they are implemented in practice. The contractual background to the measurement and valuation of civil engineering works is described in detail, as are the value and use of method-related charges. This section is extended to cover more recent forms of contract and the requirements of the 6th edition of the ICE "Conditions of Contract". All aspects of the measurement of civil engineering work, from taking-off to bill preparation are covered - these are illustrated by 22 worked examples, containing working drawings and handwritten dimension sheets with full explanatory notes. In addition to being revised and reset, the coverage is also extended with a further chapter on the measurement of the renovation of sewers and water mains. Another new worked example includes relaying railway trackwork.
A long established text that aims to meet the needs of students studying building measurement in the early years of quantity surveying and building degree courses. It contains a careful selection of 28 worked examples embracing all the principal building elements and including alternative constructional methods to illustrate a range of approaches.
This comprehensively rewritten, updated and extended new edition of this established text focuses on what has become the most important single facet of the quantity surveyor's role - cost management. The scope of the book has been broadened to take account of the widening and more sophisticated cost management and control service that clients now require. The book examines the factors influencing building costs and how the precontract costs can be estimated, analysed and controlled, to ensure that buildings can be completed within the agreed budget and timescale, and be of acceptable quality, function effectively and provide value for money. A new chapter on value management has been added, together with an introductory chapter on cost modelling; the chapter on life cycling costing is extended, while the sections on energy conservation and occupancy costs are expanded. Throughout the text many new case studies, with supporting tables and diagrams, are included in order to enhance the value of this book to the student and the practitioner.
Seeley and Winfield's Building Quantities Explained: Irish Edition
by Ivor H. Seeley and Roger Winfield
Published 19 November 2009
Designed to meet the needs of students in the Republic of Ireland who are studying building measurement on degree and equivalent courses in quantity surveying, building surveying and construction.
• A new adaptation of a classic text written with exceptional clarity and authority
• Describes and illustrates the measurement of building work in accordance with the Agreed Rules of Measurement 4 (ARM4)
• Contains a careful selection of worked examples of taking off, accompanied by extensive explanatory notes, encompassing all the basic work sections of ARM4
• Includes the measurement of foundations, walls, windows, doors, finishes, electrical installations, cold water services, external drainage and external works.
• A new adaptation of a classic text written with exceptional clarity and authority
• Describes and illustrates the measurement of building work in accordance with the Agreed Rules of Measurement 4 (ARM4)
• Contains a careful selection of worked examples of taking off, accompanied by extensive explanatory notes, encompassing all the basic work sections of ARM4
• Includes the measurement of foundations, walls, windows, doors, finishes, electrical installations, cold water services, external drainage and external works.
This book is an extension to the worked examples contained in "Building Quantities Explained". It is intended to assist students in the later years of degree and higher diploma and certificate courses in quantity surveying and building, and those studying for the later examinations of the appropriate professional bodies such as RICS, CIOB, IAAS and CSI. The main objective of the book is to match the appropriate subject heading of most relevant examinations and to produce a selection of worked examples, supported by comprehensive explanatory notes, and covering a reasonable range of constructional components that the candidate may face in the examination. The measurement examples in the second edition follow closely the principles outlined in SMM7 and the Code of Procedure for Measurement of Building Works. Some revision notes based on examiners' reports have been included at the end of the text.