Quantification Flashcards
How do you measure steel?
Tonnage (T)
How are doors measured?
Count / number
How are walls measures?
M2
What is GEA?
- Total area of building from external face of perimeter wall
- Excludes balconies
What is GIA?
- Total area inside internal perimeter wall face
- excludes voids
What is NIA?
- Rentable area of a building
- excludes columns, cores and height below 1.5m
What is comp 6?
Code of Measuring Practice 6
What is IPMS?
International Property Measuring Standards
Why do we have measurement standards?
- All work is consistent around the world
- provides guidance on ways to do things correctly
- ensuring right and wrong
What is the key differences between IPMS and COMP 6?
IPMS 1 - GEA = IPMS includes balconies
IPMS 2 - GIA = IPMS includes balconies
IPMS 3 - NIA = IPMS includes columns and internal dominant face of over 50% of wall covering.
What is CostX?
A digital software that allows you to measure and cost for building project from drawings.
What is revit?
A BIM software tool that can be used to design buildings and see as a 3D model.
What are the advantages of using online softwares?
What is the hot rates internal database?
An in house document where be it all different rates are provided from recent tenders to ensure rates we are using are up to date for each package and items we use.
What was included in the WC package you produced a PTE for?
- floor finishes
- wall finishes
- ceiling finishes
- FFE
- Sanitarywate
- internal walls
- internal doors
What was included in the Soft strip package you produced a PTE for?
- Removal of internal partitions and doors
- removal of heritage wall finishes and protection for reincorporation
- protection to heritage finishes
- prelims
- removal of stair balustrades
- removal of MEP
- Asbestos removal
What was included in your area schedule for the tall building?
- Basis, assumptions and exclusion
- areas for NIA, GIA and GEA
- N:G efficiency
What is N:G?
- Net : Gross Efficiency
- NiA in comparison to total area
What is typical N:G for Commerical building?
What was included in facade PTE?
- Prelims
- PCSA
- measured works of each facade type
- external doors
- euro : pound rate
- VE options
What is a tender analysis?
A comparison of tender returns and our PTE
What is normalization?
Process of making sure all tenders are on a level playing field and tendered for everything
- highest rate
- PTE rate
- average rate of other returns
How would you measure works on site that the contractor applied for?
- Look at what has been applied for
- go to site and look at the works
- can measure on site if necessary
- will make an assessment using drawings of proposed works
- agree with contractor what is fair and reasonable
How could the client increase NIA on building?
- reduce size of cores and columns
- reduce depth of facade
