Referred to as SMM6. 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. The accompanying Practice Manual provides guidance and good practice on applying the standard in the measurement of building works.

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

Provides a single stage selective tendering procedure for commissioning building works.

Published for the National Joint Consultative Committee for Building by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Provides general conditions to be applied to all UK Government contracts for building and civil engineering works.

Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), second edition.

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

Published by the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors.

Provides a standard procedure for how the Bill of Quantities shall be prepared and priced, and how the quantities of work will be expressed and measured.

Published by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Worked Examples (format is Drawing No; Drawing Title; Model (all references in brackets are to the Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works Edition 5 (SMM) Sections)

13 Oriel Window (K)
14 Stone Work in Ashlar with semi- circular Arch (K)
15 Stone Work (G,K)
16 Stone Work – Glasgow High School (K)
17 Stone Work Panels and Pillasters (K)
18 Cupboard below Fume Cupboard (N,P)
19 Details for above 18 (N,P)
20 Details for above 18 (N,P)
21 Timber Curtain Walling Details (P)
22 Timber Curtain Walling Details (P)
23 Trusses to Octagonal Roof (N)
24 Trusses to Octagonal Roof (N)
25 Stairway (P)
26 Timber Screen (N,P)
27 Stone Tracery Cottingham Church (K,Y)
28 Panelling (N,P
29 Panelling
30 Panelling
31 Panelling
32 Panelling Details (P
33 Panelling Details
34 Marble Catafalque (U)
35 Mansard Roof (M)
36 Mansard Roof – Copper Roof Details
37 Alteration Works (C)
38 Demolitions and Alterations (C)
39 Forming Window Openings (C,K)
40 – 48 incl Plumbing (S)
No number Boundary Wall - Civil Engineering (Civils)
No number Carriageway – Civil Engineering (Civils)

Final year Quantity Surveying Diploma coursework assignment.

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.

Provides a standard procedure for how the Bill of Quantities shall be prepared and priced, and how the quantities of work will be expressed and measured.

Published by the Institution of Civil Engineers, reprinted 1974.

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.