QS Practices

· Introduction Price lists are published by product manufactures to provide cost information of their products to customers. So that customers can be able to select most suitable product according to their requirement. There are several main features of a price list as foll…

This article is about the weigh batching of concrete In this method content of each material is measured according to the weight. And con not use admixtures unless specified. In BS 5328, Part 2, Table 5 shows the cement content for prescribed mixes with the total weight of dry aggr…

This article is about the Volume Batching of Concrete In this method boxes to are used to measure volume of each material. The internal dimension of the box is 400x350x250 mm=0.035m 3 =1 bag of cement weighting 50 kg. When measuring the aggregate shaking, ramming or heaping sho…

In previous headings some features of a cost plan and steps in preparation of …

Coursework scenario clearly mentioned that this cost plan to be prepared at the very early stage of the project. There is only little information available such as Location, Shape, Size and Height of the project. Therefore estimator has to come up with some assumptions for the purp…