Taking off quantities civil engineering

By Bryan Spain

Taking off quantities civil engineering provides a thorough understanding of the general principles of measurement for taking off quantities. An essential guide to any quantity surveyor, architect or engineer.

Taking off quantities: Civil Engineering demonstrates, through a series of detailed worked examples from a range of civil engineering projects, how the measurement techniques are actually used.

The role of the quantity surveyor is changing rapidly and he is now expected to provide project and financial management services in addition to his traditional expertise.

But whatever new skills are acquired, he must still possess a sound knowledge of building construction and the ability to take-off quantities from drawings in Taking off quantities civil engineering.

CESMM 3 Explained was published in 1992 and was described as the definitive work on civil engineering measurement.

Since publication, discussions have taken place with quantity surveyors, engineers, academics and students and it appeared that there was a need for a book containing examples of civil engineering taking-off only.

Taking off quantities civil engineering, Taking-Off Quantities Civil Engineering, re-presents the appendices from CESMM 3 Explained together with the first two chapters which deal with general principles of measurement and how CESMM 3 works.

Although it is expected that civil engineering and quantity surveying students will form the major part of the readership.

Its interest has already been expressed by practicing engineers and surveyors on the need for a book providing examples of civil engineering taking-off accompanied by a commentary on the measurement techniques being used.