Image showing the exterior of Dudhope Castle in its surrounding park area, with the industrial background of the Dundee cityscape behind it.

Portrait photograph of John S. Lumsden.

Portrait photograph of Sir David Baxter of Kilmaron.

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 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 standard conditions of contract and forms of tender, agreement and bond to be applied in connection with civil engineering construction works.

Published by The Institution of Civil Engineers, The Association of Consulting Engineers, and The Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, fifth 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 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.

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.

Handbook looking at the application of discounting to the decision process in building, and the techniques of Cost-In-Use, Private Investment Appraisal, and Cost benefit Analysis and how and when they are applied.

Published by the Ministry of Public Building and Works.