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)

9/ A1 Offices and Stores Excavations, Foundations, Brickwork, Drainage
(D,F,G,X)
9/ B2 Offices and Stores
17 Typical Window Details Joinery (P)
18 Framed Lined Door Joinery (P)
19 Door Types (Int and External) Joinery (P)
Rainwater Installation (Dwg 9) (S)
Plaster Work (Dwg 9) (U)
Glazier Work (Dwg 9) (V)
Plumber Work – Roof Lead Work (M)
Painter Work (W)
10 Room with Dormer Slater Work (M)
Plasterwork (Dwg 10) (U)
11 Office and Store (Workshop) Plaster Work (U)
12 4Apt Dwelling House Excavations, Foundations, Under Building
Superstructure (D,F,G.M,S,X)
Plumber Work (gutters etc) (M)
Drainage (X)
Roughcast Work (U)
13 Extension Excavations, Foundations, Under Building(D,F,G, N)
14 Simple Pitched Roof Carpentry Work, Joinery Work (N,P)
20 Sash and Case Window Details Joiner Work (P)
13 Purpose-made Casement Wdw Joiner Work (P)
No Number Cottage Carpenter Work (N)
1a 4 Apt Dwelling House
1b 4 Apt Dwelling House - Roof Roof Plumber Work / Lead Work (M)
No number Glazed Screen Glazier Work (V)
No number Bus Shelter and Public Convenience Excavations, Brick Work and Concrete Work(D,F,G,
No number Trussed Rafters Carpentry (N)
Sketch Excavator and Builder Work (D,F,G)
No number Lead Work Lead flashings to chimney (M)

Reprinted extract from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Handbook providing a systematic plan of work for architectural design teams.

Code providing a systematic approach to providing building estimates.

Published by the Institute of Building, third 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 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, fourth edition (amended).

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.

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.