THROUGHOUT THIS MODULE ...
Measuring things has always been something interesting to me, as a student that adores calculation. In the recent 3 months since I've started taking Bachelors of Quantity Surveying with Taylor's School of Architecture, Building and Design, measurements I has brought measuring things into a whole new dimension for me.
First of all, measurements involves a lot of visualising and imagination as well as a thorough and detail understanding of how a construction building works. At the initialization and commencement of this course, we started off from the bottom by measuring all the quantities of substructures for a building. Everything started off with the measurements of girth (square metres), in other words the area of excavation of a building. Next, dimension papers were then introduced to us, and that became the commencement of doing "taking-off" lists. Taking-off lists are basically done to record down the descriptions of the measured parts.
Each section of the dimension paper has it's own purpose. Starting off with the columns on the very left, they are known as the timesing columns, next to them are the dimension columns, correspondingly to the right are the squaring columns and last but not least on the right of them are the description columns where descriptions are being jotted down.
Following up is the site preparation/site clearance, with descriptions such as "Remove hedges consisting of _____ average 900mm high including grubbing up roots and disposal as directed by S.O/Architect/Eng, which inter-relates to the measurement of girths.
After site preparation is complete, work continues with the work below lowest floor level (WBLFF), in other words the excavation of strip foundation. Before that, topsoil is being excavated and preserved, meanwhile earth is being excavated to the reduced level, and the materials excavated are disposed. A trench is then excavated to receive foundation. Several more earthworks are then conducted, such as the laying mass concrete, formwork, and last but not least brickwork.
Elements such as pad footings, pilecaps, ground beams, column stumps, reinforcement bars, links and stirrups, beams, floor beams, roof beams, floor slabs, are then tentatively measured with everything specified accordingly to the SMM2 specifications (Standard Method of Measurements).
First of all, measurements involves a lot of visualising and imagination as well as a thorough and detail understanding of how a construction building works. At the initialization and commencement of this course, we started off from the bottom by measuring all the quantities of substructures for a building. Everything started off with the measurements of girth (square metres), in other words the area of excavation of a building. Next, dimension papers were then introduced to us, and that became the commencement of doing "taking-off" lists. Taking-off lists are basically done to record down the descriptions of the measured parts.
Each section of the dimension paper has it's own purpose. Starting off with the columns on the very left, they are known as the timesing columns, next to them are the dimension columns, correspondingly to the right are the squaring columns and last but not least on the right of them are the description columns where descriptions are being jotted down.
Following up is the site preparation/site clearance, with descriptions such as "Remove hedges consisting of _____ average 900mm high including grubbing up roots and disposal as directed by S.O/Architect/Eng, which inter-relates to the measurement of girths.
After site preparation is complete, work continues with the work below lowest floor level (WBLFF), in other words the excavation of strip foundation. Before that, topsoil is being excavated and preserved, meanwhile earth is being excavated to the reduced level, and the materials excavated are disposed. A trench is then excavated to receive foundation. Several more earthworks are then conducted, such as the laying mass concrete, formwork, and last but not least brickwork.
Elements such as pad footings, pilecaps, ground beams, column stumps, reinforcement bars, links and stirrups, beams, floor beams, roof beams, floor slabs, are then tentatively measured with everything specified accordingly to the SMM2 specifications (Standard Method of Measurements).