Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil EngineeringAuthor(s): Peter Williams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781118561522, 978-1118561522\nSynopsis\nMeasurement in civil engineering and building is a core skill and the means by which an architectural or engineering design may be modelled financially, providing the framework to control and realise designs within defined cost parameters, to the satisfaction of the client. Measurement has a particular skill base, but it is elevated to an art because the quantity surveyor is frequently called upon to interpret incomplete designs in order to determine the intentions of the designer so that contractors may be fully informed when compiling their tenders.\n\n Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineeringwill help all those who use measurement in their work or deal with the output from the measurement process, to understand not only the ins and os