Quantification

Question 1

How do you measure steel?

Answer 1

Tonnage (T)

Question 2

How are doors measured?

Answer 2

Count / number

Question 3

How are walls measures?

Answer 3

M2

Question 4

What is GEA?

Answer 4

• Total area of building from external face of perimeter wall
• Excludes balconies

Question 5

What is GIA?

Answer 5

• Total area inside internal perimeter wall face
• excludes voids

Question 6

What is NIA?

Answer 6

• Rentable area of a building
• excludes columns, cores and height below 1.5m

Question 7

What is comp 6?

Answer 7

Code of Measuring Practice 6

Question 8

What is IPMS?

Answer 8

International Property Measuring Standards

Question 9

Why do we have measurement standards?

Answer 9

• All work is consistent around the world
• provides guidance on ways to do things correctly
• ensuring right and wrong

Question 10

What is the key differences between IPMS and COMP 6?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

What is CostX?

Answer 11

A digital software that allows you to measure and cost for building project from drawings.

Question 12

What is revit?

Answer 12

A BIM software tool that can be used to design buildings and see as a 3D model.

Question 13

What are the advantages of using online softwares?

Question 14

What is the hot rates internal database?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

What was included in the WC package you produced a PTE for?

Answer 15

• floor finishes
• wall finishes
• ceiling finishes
• FFE
• Sanitarywate
• internal walls
• internal doors

Question 16

What was included in the Soft strip package you produced a PTE for?

Answer 16

• 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

Question 17

What was included in your area schedule for the tall building?

Answer 17

• Basis, assumptions and exclusion
• areas for NIA, GIA and GEA
• N:G efficiency

Question 18

What is N:G?

Answer 18

• Net : Gross Efficiency
• NiA in comparison to total area

Question 19

What is typical N:G for Commerical building?

Question 20

What was included in facade PTE?

Answer 20

• Prelims
• PCSA
• measured works of each facade type
• external doors
• euro : pound rate
• VE options

Question 21

What is a tender analysis?

Answer 21

A comparison of tender returns and our PTE

Question 22

What is normalization?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

How would you measure works on site that the contractor applied for?

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

How could the client increase NIA on building?

Answer 24

• reduce size of cores and columns
• reduce depth of facade

Question 25

What does dominant face mean?