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ARC 411 Building Quantities and Costing

400 levelEnvironmental Sciences10 topics

ARC 411 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Standard method of measurement
  2. Taking off quantities
  3. Measurement of substructure and superstructure
  4. Bills of quantities
  5. Estimating building costs
  6. Unit rate build-up
  7. Preliminaries and provisional sums
  8. Cost planning
  9. Tender documentation
  10. Valuation of construction works

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Standard method of measurement

Standard Method of Measurement (SMM) is the set of agreed rules used to describe, measure, and bill building work in a consistent way. For examinations, you must master its purpose, the basic measurement principles, and how it improves accuracy, fairness, and comparability in bills of quantities and cost estimating.

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