Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Nationals in Construction and the Built Environment

– Issue 1 – January 2010 © Edexcel Limited 2009

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Unit content

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  Be able to apply standard measurement techniques

Measurement techniques: initial and/or approximate estimating techniques; production of client’s budgets 
or scheme comparisons; production of contract documentation; measurement of variations; sub-contract 
and supply chain packages; final account procedures; term maintenance; refurbishment works

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  Know about the standard methods of measurement

Standard methods of measurement: SMM7 (building; building services engineering); CESMM (civil engineering); 
bill format (bills of quantities, codes, National Schedule of Rates)

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  Be able to undertake measurement tasks, applying mathematical calculations 

to the measurement process

Measurement tasks: taking off measurements and production of quantities for building (sections of a simple 
construction project, foundations and substructures, superstructure including external and internal walls, 
flat and pitched roof construction and coverings, internal and external finishes, internal components such 
as doors, windows, staircases and floors); taking off measurements and production of quantities for civil 
engineering (earthworks, cut and fill, drainage, manholes, roadways, simple concrete works, reinforcement)
Mathematical calculations: as appropriate to what is being measured

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  Be able to produce quantity abstracts and bills of quantities pages of measured 

works using manual techniques

Final summaries: word processed bill of quantities pages; abstracted quantities using spreadsheets
Quantity abstracts and bills of quantities: abstraction; working up; production of bills of quantities; 
production of final summaries
Production of bill of quantities: abstraction of dimensioned quantities; working up processes involved 
with these methods, production of a bill of quantities for a simple work section or trade section 
of a construction or civil engineering project