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Taking Off Domestic Building Construction: An Introduction to Building Quantities book cover

1st Edition

Taking Off Domestic Building Construction An Introduction to Building Quantities

By Andrew Atkinson Copyright 2024
226 Pages 69 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 69 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 69 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides a detailed step-by-step guide to taking off building work. It is pitched at a basic introductory level especially suitable for technicians entering the construction industry from school, perhaps intending to follow a trade or technical career. An ideal workbook for students of quantity surveying, construction and civil engineering when learning to measure building work. It... Read more

Acknowledgements

Credits

List of tables

List of figures

Glossary

How to use this book

0.0 Introduction

1.0 Substructure

2.0 Walling

3.0 Roof construction

4.0 Roof coverings

5.0 First floor

6.0 Internal finishings

7.0 Windows, doors and internal fittings

8.0 Bills of quantities

APPENDICES

1 Taking off

2 Bills of quantities – measured works

3 Drawings

4 Specification

5 Exercise – the specification

6 Exercise – the drawings

Index

Biography

Andy Atkinson is a chartered quantity surveyor with a background in consultancy and public service. With 35 years’ experience lecturing in measurement of building work and contract administration at London South Bank University, he has acted as principal and co-investigator for several publicly funded research projects. Formerly a member of the Joint Contracts Tribunal BIM Working Group, examining methods for adapting JCT contracts to building information modelling, Andy is the author of the JCT Contract Administration Pocket Book (Routledge 2020). He also maintains a small surveying consultancy.

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