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.

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.

Autobiography by former mechanical engineering student at the Dundee Technical College.
"A Dundee Engineer's story from the dark days of World War 2 via post war austerity and the swinging sixties to the start of the twenty-first century.
Included are school days, apprenticeship at Caledon Shipyard Dundee and American precision manufacturing, University Education, industrial experience and an academic career at University of Dundee."