Offers quantity surveyors, engineers, building surveyors and contractors clear guidance on how to recognise and avoid measurement risk. The book recognises the interrelationship of measurement with complex contractual issues; emphasises the role of measurement in the entirety of the contracting process; and helps to widen the accessibility of measurement beyond the province of the professional quantity surveyor.
For the busy practitioner, the book includes:
- Detailed coverage of NRM1 and NRM2, CESMM4, Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works and POM(I)
- Comparison of NRM2 with SMM7
- Detailed analysis of changes from CESMM3 to CESMM4
- Coverage of the measurement implications of major main and sub-contract conditions (JCT, NEC3, Infrastructure Conditions and FIDIC)
- Definitions of 5D BIM and exploration of BIM measurement protocols
- Considerations of the measurement risk implications of both formal and informal tender documentation and common methods of procurement
- An identification of pre- and post-contract measurement risk issues
- Coverage of measurement risk in claims and final accounts
- Detailed worked examples and explanations of computer-based measurement using a variety of industry-standard software packages.