Taking Off Quantities: Civil Engineering

This book provides a thorough understanding of the general principles of measurement for taking off quantities. An essential guide to any quantity surveyor, architect or engineer Taking off quantities: Civil Engineering demonstrates, through a series of detailed worked examples from a range of civil engineering projects, how the measurement techniques are actually used. Taking off Quantities: Civil Engineering: sets taking off in the wider context of measurement; is presented in large format, with clearly laid out drawings; includes explanatory notes to support the taking off examples; is more than a dull, mechanistic book on measurement techniques.