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Suggestions please and a quick pointer on Quantity Take off

The past week has been very busy out here, since I wanted to cover the topic of Budgeting/Cost Planning at one go.. I hope I have achieved that. I do look forward to your suggestions and inputs on what I need to extensively focus on..

My next post would be scheduled for next week, since it would be on Escalation and I need sometime to structure the post with a few worksheets to share with you.

Well, for the quick pointer on Quantity Take Off (QTO):

 I have found that it makes ones job easy if a detailed area statement is prepared before the start of the QTO. The following are a few advantages of it:
  • While compiling the area statement, the QS will be going through the entire drawings set, this ensures that the scope defined in the drawings is glanced at.
  • The area statement will always serve as a check point for most of your quantities,
  • A detailed area statement should ideally capture the area and the perimeter of each floor along with the openings in the slab, the area of the staircase, the void, etc., this will not only aid most of your QTO but it will ensure that any items that are overlooked can be quantified with the data available on the area statement. Appended is a table with which I prefer to work, this can be altered as per ones requirement:

Hope that was helpful.
Looking forward to receiving your inputs.




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