Your employment as a graduate quantity surveyor in an international quantity surveying practice has commenced: Analytical Chemistry and Measurement Science Assignment, TUM, UK

Assignment Brief and Guidance

Your employment as a graduate quantity surveyor in an international quantity surveying practice has commenced. You have been tasked with a take-off for a two-story Observation Tower. The building will be constructed by a simple R.C. structure, with a 100 mm thick concrete block wall enclosed as
a reception area located on the ground floor. The whole construction project will be in the use of a rule of measurement adopted in H.K. within which the work will be undertaken.

You will be tasked with providing the following considerations for the initial stages of the Observation Tower project.

• An explanation of the technique that you will use to produce quantities.
• Why accuracy is important when using this technique.
• Assemble bills of quantities for a section of work from the measurements.

Assignment 1

1) The production of accurate quantities is essential in avoiding disputes and claims during the construction stage of a project. Produce a short synopsis that outlines the techniques that can be used, both digitally and manually, for the production of accurate quantities for the project. The critique should evaluate in critical terms the relationship between the technique and accuracy.

2) Normally construction projects’ quantities are produced in an agreed format. This format is termed a ‘Rule of Measurement’ and in H. K. this is produced by The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Local rules of measurement being existed that must be honored in the territory where
the project is going to be built. Produce an explanation of how the use of a rule of measurement supports the production of accurate quantities.

3) With reference to the attached Drawings No. M&D-2014-01 and M&D-2014-02, take off the quantities for both substructural and superstructural works of the building. Plastering and paving, painting are applied to the internal of the reception. Produce the following quantities using dimension papers.