Questions in connection with measurement

Questions in connection with measurement KCTang

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Note

5 March 2025: Created.

8 March 2025: Question 1 split into questions 1 and 2. Question 3 expanded. Questions 11 and 12 inserted.

Intro

  1. The following are questions prepared for delivering PQSL event on measurement on 5 March 2025.
  2. No answers are given here.
  3. APC candidates should find out the answers given elsewhere in the Knowledge Base, from their daily practice and other reference materials to build up their own answers.

Questions

  1. What are the uses of Bills of Quantities?
  2. What are the ultimate objectives which should be observed during the course of producing Bills of Quantities?
  3. What are the processes of measurement up to the issue of Bills of Quantities for tendering? Which processes are now undertaken by computer software?
  4. What are the traditional post names of the people involved in BQ production? Some of the names are not used now.
  5. What documents we should refer to when producing BQ?
  6. What common principles of measurement we should observe when measuring quantities? Those principles may change when the Standard Method of Measurement is changed.
  7. What is the difference between openings and wants when measuring quantities?
  8. What fundamental elements of costs should be included in the unit rates for measured works and preliminaries?
  9. How many decimal places are used for measurement and billing? Why are they important? Should they be that important nowadays with digital measurement tools?
  10. Where should the word “P.C. rate” be put in a long BQ description using P.C. rate?
  11. Why are descriptions written in free form or built up from tokens?
  12. Why is it important to describe the functional names of the constituent components of a BQ item in addition to their material names?
  13. What objectives should be achieved when setting out the measurement sheets?
  14. How to write good query list?
  15. How useful is query list for post contract management?
  16. How should detailed measurement be approached?
  17. How to adjust the perimeter from the centre line to the outer perimeter or inner perimeter? Should this be used nowadays?
  18. Why should we measure the overall first and make adjustments instead of measuring parts to make up the total?
  19. How to imagine the 6-faces of a cube to help us measure related items?
  20. How to set out the dimensions of related items?
  21. How would BIM impact our measurement?
  22. Should we simplify the measurement rules to reduce the items to be measured?
  23. How should be BQ descriptions be written?
  24. What are the meanings of “Standard Phraseology” and “Model Bills”?
  25. What are the uses of measurement checklists?
  26. How to do bulk check? What are the meanings of “absolute check” and “relative check”?
  27. How to measure structural concrete walls with lintol beams and attached columns?
  28. How to measure non-structural concrete walls and work?
  29. What should be considered when measuring transfer slabs and beams?
  30. What should be considered when measuring beams sitting on top of columns?
  31. What are the pros and cons of Bills of Quantities vs Schedule of Quantities and Rates without quantities or with quantities?
     

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