Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineering
Peter Williams
Wiley-Blackwell
<p>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.</p> <p>For the busy practitioner, the book includes:</p> <ul> <li>Detailed coverage of NRM1 and NRM2, CESMM4, Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works and POM(I)</li> <li>Comparison of NRM2 with SMM7</li> <li>Detailed analysis of changes from CESMM3 to CESMM4</li> <li>Coverage of the measurement implications of major main and sub-contract conditions (JCT, NEC3, Infrastructure Conditions and FIDIC)</li> <li>Definitions of 5D BIM and exploration of BIM measurement protocols</li> <li>Considerations of the measurement risk implications of both formal and informal tender documentation and common methods of procurement</li> <li>An identification of pre- and post-contract measurement risk issues</li> <li>Coverage of measurement risk in claims and final accounts</li> <li>Detailed worked examples and explanations of computer-based measurement using a variety of industry-standard software packages.</li> </ul>