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This book provides a thorough understanding of the general principles of measurement for taking off quantities. An essential guide to any quantity surveyor, architect or engineer Taking off quantities: Civil Engineering demonstrates, through a series of detailed worked examples from a range of civil engineering projects, how the measurement techniques are actually used. Taking off Quantities: Civil Engineering: sets taking off in the wider context of measurement; is presented in large format, with clearly laid out drawings; includes explanatory notes to support the taking off examples; is more than a dull, mechanistic book on measurement techniques.

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Taking off Quantities: Civil Engineering is bang up to date and oozing with professionalism. This is the book's real strength the fact that it has been written by eminent practitioners and is based on real life examples. - Civil Engineering Surveyor

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Bryan Spain is a consultant quantity surveyor who specialises in building and civil engineering costs. He has worked in local government, private practice and contracting organisations. He has also written over 50 books, mainly on construction costs.

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