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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Image showing the exterior of the Young Men's Christian Association Building, housing the reading room and Literary Institution. A young man and three teenagers stand outside the building. Two of the boys are wearing what look like postal uniforms.

Image showing the exterior of the Dundee High School with young men and boys gathered outside the fence of the property.

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