Photocopy of a handwritten Draft Bill of Quantities for various trades, including Preliminaries and Measurements for each trade involved in a construction project to build a structure that includes brick, concrete, cement, and steel reinforcement materials.

Referred to as SMM5. Provides detailed information, classification tables and rules for measuring building works. Its intention is to give a uniform basis for measuring building works in order to facilitate industry wide consistency and benchmarking, to encourage the adoption of best practice and to help avoid disputes.

Published by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the National Federation of Building Trades Employers, sixth edition.

This standard was used throughout the duration of Harry Diack's Quantity Surveying course at the Dundee College of Technology.

Bulleting demonstrating how cost information obtained on previous projects can be applied in current work during the design and planning design stages to help in cost analysis and cost planning.

Published by the Department of Education and Science, third edition.

Provides layouts of sample operational bills, and annotations on points of interest.

Written by E. R. Skoyles, ARICS, AIQS, and published by the Building Research Station, Ministry of Technology.

Description of the methods used to produce an Operational Bill, with a discussion of the difference between this and normal quantity surveying practice.

Written by E. R. Skoyles, ARICS, AIQS.
Published by the Building Research Station, Ministry of Public Building and Works.

Schedules providing descriptions and rates for standard dayworks works associated with civil engineering contract work.

Published by the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors.

A standardised form of presentation for preliminaries in a Bill of Quantities in Scotland when RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Conditions and Standard Method of Measurements apply.

Published by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Scottish Branch), Third Edition.

Reprinted extract from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Handbook providing a systematic plan of work for architectural design teams.

Code providing a systematic approach to providing building estimates.

Published by the Institute of Building, third edition.

Practical handbook providing details on how copper sheet and strip are used for flashings and weatherings of all normal types.

Published by the Copper Development Association, tenth revised impression.