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.

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.

Picture of R. D. Young, chair of Albert Herbert Ltd in un-named newspaper at the opening of its new branch office in Glasgow. R. D. Nicholson of the Institution of Production Engineers, is in the far left of the picture.

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.

Posed in a group outside a building. Written on the back is “Manchester 1962”. One older man in a blazer is with them – possibly John Nicolson Low. Black and white

Posed in a group on a set of steps holding papers (possibly publicity material from a visit ). Written on the back is “Sheffield 1960”. Location is possibly Davy and United Engineering firm at Darnall. One older man in a blazer is with them – possibly John Nicolson Low. Copyright of Davy and United Engineering Company Ltd. Black and white

Possibly Mechanical Engineering Department staff. Copyright Norman Brown Photographers, Dundee. Black and white

Report, or educational assignment, by an un-named author taking Dundee as a case study for anticipating management problems for introducing a new light engineering industries in an area with skills in traditional industries of textiles and heavy or medium engineering including shipbuilding.

See item JNL-2-14 part of the same visit. Written on back – “Sheffield 1960”. Copyright of Davy and United Engineering Company Ltd. Black and white