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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. CESMM4 allows the engineer to define rock for each contract, but not so SMM7.


Best practice

NRM2 now gives a little more guidance in Work section 5: Excavation and filling as follows;

Rock is any hard material that can only be removed by the use of wedges, rock hammers, special plant or explosives due to its size or location. A boulder not exceeding 5m3 in volume or one that can be lifted out in the bucket of an excavator will not constitute rock.


Duncan Cartlidge FRICS


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