Advanced Building

The RICS New Rules of Measurement mean that the construction industry now has a way of allowing a more consistent approach to the measurement and estimating of buildings. Estimating and cost planning using the New Rules of Measurement offers comprehensive guidance on all the technical competencies concerned with estimating throughout the precontract stages.

Estimating for Construction explains both the traditional techniques, and best practice in early contractor involvement situations, within the framework of modern construction procurement. As well as introducing different estimating techniques.....

Surveying is an important part of all undergraduate and higher diploma courses in civil engineering and building. This textbook covers a wider range of topics than most other surveying texts, and deals not only with control surveying techniques and equipment but also with setting out practice. The methods described are geared to modern equipment and processes. However, the book emphasises the need to appreciate practical site problems as well as the implications of the latest electronic methods of field work and data handling.

Suitable for students of engineering new to surveying, this title offers an introduction to land and construction surveying. It includes the principles, methods and equipment used in surveying, as well as covering levelling, total stations, detail surveys, and electronic distance measurement.

Part 1. Surveying Principles: 1 Surveying fundamentals 2 Surveying mathematics 3 Tape measurements 4 Leveling 5 Electronic distance measurement 6 Introduction to total stations and theodolites 7 Total stations 8 Traverse surveys and computations 9 Satellite positioning 10 An introduction to geomatics11 Horizontal control surveys Part II. Construction applications: 12 Machine guidance and control 13 Highway curves 14 Highway construction surveys 15 Municipal street construction surveys 16 Pipeline and tunnel construction surveys 17 Culvert and bridge construction surveys 18 Building construction surveys 19 Quantity and final surveys.