CMA463: MEASUREMENT AND ESTIMATING OF BUILDING WORKS I

About This Course

This course gives students a thorough understanding of how to measure and estimate construction projects. The measuring section will include mechanical and electrical services, as well as measurement techniques for doors, windows, roofs, and finishes. The estimating portion includes preliminaries, prime cost, provisional sum, pro rata, wood works, steel works, roofing, plastering, finishing, painting, glazing work, mechanical and electrical services.

Topics In This Course

1. Overview

1.1) Understanding the nature and significance of quantity surveying in tendering documents.

1.2) Understand the principles and uses of the SMM.

1.3) Interpreting drawings.

1.4) Abstracting quantities.

2. Measurement

2.1) Measurement of doors

2.2) Measurement of windows

2.3) Measurement of roof

2.4) Measurement of floor finishes

2.5) Measurement of wall finishes

2.6) Measurement of ceiling

2.7) Measurement of painting

2.8) Measurement of mechanical and electrical works: water supply and sanitary fittings, soil & waste pipe, electrical & air conditioning.

3. Building up rates and quantifying of materials for:

3.1) Woodwork

3.2) Steelwork

3.3) Roofing : trusses, covering & drainage

3.4) Plastering

3.5) Finishes : wall & floor

3.6) Painting

3.7) Glazier

3.8) Mechanical and electrical works: water supply and sanitary fittings, soil and waste pipe, electrical and air-conditioning.

4. Preliminaries

4.1) N/A

5. Prime Cost and Provisional Sum

5.1) N/A

6. Pro Rata

6.1) N/A