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Kickers Kickers are small concrete upstands used when casting columns and walls. Kickers can be suspended or isolated. Suspended kickers...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Taking off quantities top tips 8
Partitions Partitions are referred to on NRM2 in three work sections; 16, 20 and 22. Which section to use often causes confusion. Best...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Taking off quantities top tips No.7
Provisional quantities Provisional quantities should be avoided whenever possible, as rates can loaded in the hope of quantities...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Taking off quantities top tips No.6
Between a rock and a hard place. There has always been a heated debate between contractors and clients about what constitutes rock....
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Taking off quantities top tips No. 5
Surface water is water on the surface of the site and excavations. Disposal of surface water is deemed to be included in NRM2 Section 5....
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Taking off quantities top tips No. 4
Alterations Measuring alteration work is one of my favourite tasks as it allows the qs to use their descriptive talents. Best practice...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Taking off quantities top tips No. 2
When taking off quantities for Structural Metalwork using NRM 2, fittings may be billed as a calculated weight or as a percentage of the...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Coding Foreboding !
The RICS Code of Measurement Practice or COMP has been used by surveyors of all disciplines for years. It determines how we calculate...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Dec 8, 2022
- 1 min
Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying
22 years ago Building magazine ran the Ethel the Aardvark article and asked the question; 'Will we soon be drying a tear over a grave...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
2022 Burn out ?
What does 2023 hold in store ? New ways of working have meant that during lock down some organisations made record profits by using...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Too clever to measure?
Measurer or manager? Not for the first time quantity surveyors have an identity crisis. Should taking off quantities be removed from the...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
Fasten your seat belts ladies and gentlemen
Just when it seemed safe to come from under the duvet after the turmoil caused by BREXIT and COVID, business confidence again slipped to...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
The circular economy and construction - Part B
Sustainable Buildings Market Study In part A of this blog the question was asked; just how feasible is a large scale move away from the...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Sep 15, 2022
- 4 min
New ways of working
A shift to blended working In what is described as a snapshot on the impact of COVID on construction The University of Loughborough...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Construction Playbook - Is it the silver bullet ?
The Construction Playbook Perhaps the most significant report to be issued by the UK Government recently is The Construction Playbook in...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
Circular savings ? - Part 1
In a typical year an estimated 25 million tonnes of construction waste ends up in landfill without any form of recovery or reuse....
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
Digital Construction
There's a lot in the media and technical press just now about the potential impact of digital technologies on the construction process,...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
Brave new QS ?
Work has started on the fifth edition of New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice. Due for publication in 2023 I think I know what...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
Revised NRM2 Suite
The RICS state that the main reason for the revised NRM guidance was the publication of the ICMS, IPMS and the 2020 RIBA plan of work as...
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Duncan Cartlidge
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Revised NRM Suite published
The RICS has published revised versions of the NRM Suite. We are promised guides to the changes soon. On first glance it does look too...
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