Note
5 March 2025: Created.
Intro
- The following are questions prepared for delivering PQSL event on measurement on 5 March 2025.
- No answers are given here.
- 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
- What are the ultimate purposes of producing Bills of Quantities?
- What are the processes of measurement up to the issue of Bills of Quantities for tendering?
- What are the traditional post names of the people involved in BQ production? Some of the names are not used now.
- What documents we should refer to when producing BQ?
- What common principles of measurement we should observe when measuring quantities? Those principles may change when the Standard Method of Measurement is changed.
- What is the difference between openings and wants when measuring quantities?
- What fundamental elements of costs should be included in the unit rates for measured works and preliminaries?
- How many decimal places are used for measurement and billing? Why are they important? Should they be that important nowadays with digital measurement tools?
- Where should the word “P.C. rate” be put in a long BQ description using P.C. rate?
- What objectives should be achieved when setting out the measurement sheets?
- How to write good query list?
- How useful is query list for post contract management?
- How should detailed measurement be approached?
- How to adjust the perimeter from the centre line to the outer perimeter or inner perimeter? Should this be used nowadays?
- Why should we measure the overall first and make adjustments instead of measuring parts to make up the total?
- How to imagine the 6-faces of a cube to help us measure related items?
- How to set out the dimensions of related items?
- How would BIM impact our measurement?
- Should we simplify the measurement rules to reduce the items to be measured?
- How should be BQ descriptions be written?
- What are the meanings of “Standard Phraseology” and “Model Bills”?
- What are the uses of measurement checklists?
- How to do bulk check? What are the meanings of “absolute check” and “relative check”?
- How to measure structural concrete walls with lintol beams and attached columns?
- How to measure non-structural concrete walls and work?
- What should be considered when measuring transfer slabs and beams?
- What should be considered when measuring beams sitting on top of columns?
- What are the pros and cons of Bills of Quantities vs Schedule of Quantities and Rates without quantities or with quantities?