General Introduction:

Training on Preparing Bill of Quantities and Principles of Estimating is a vital training for engineers. This is a quantity surveying (QS) is a professional working environment within the construction industry and engineering projects.  It concerned with building costs. It provides a general set of skills, procedures and roles that are then applied to a diverse variety of problems relate to costs and contracts on construction projects. Quantity surveyors normally reports to project manager and provides advice in the decision‐making process throughout the management of a project from initial inception to final completion. Specifications are the written requirements for a material, product, or service for a proposed project, like a building, bridge, or machine. Materials specifications, there specifications and composition used in construction industry along with, forms, characteristics, cost, uses, and effect on the environment has to be properly specified based on the project requirements, functioning of the project and its components, technical specifications, and standard of quality for the project.

Course goals and objectives: During the course period, the instructor will discuss and demonstrate the following listed topics related to the theory’s implications and practicalities in quantity surveying and materials specifications. Principles and techniques of quantity surveying and standards of measurements will be explained provided with many cases and examples, including materials specifications and descriptions.

Course content: During the course period, the instructor will explain, discuss, and analyze in detail with participants the principles of preparing bill of quantities, method of its verification and project materials speciation and why BOQ is considered important document tender which will be demonstrated through the followings subjects that will be covered during training period:

• Roles and responsibilities of quantity surveyors during tendering and construction process
• Roles and responsibilities of consultant quantity surveyor during design and construction
• Responsibility of professional/ certified quantity surveyor
• Principles of identifying preliminaries and preambles in BoQ
• The methods employed, that covers a range of activities which may include cost planning,

value engineering, value management, feasibility studies, and cost benefit analysis.

• Handling process of estimating and cost control, the tendering process and, after contract award
• Method of preparing and producing the bill of quantities, producing tender documentation and manage the tendering process, clarify, and evaluate tenders, and manage the results
• Preparing monthly valuations, variations control, contract administration and assessment of claims through hired quantity survey.
• Sources of cost information and pricing
• General obligations of pricing and estimating process
• Analysis of principles of measurements and standard method of measurements
• The technique of measuring quantities from drawings, sketches and specifications prepared by designers, principally architects and engineers, to prepare tender/contract documents
• General introduction to material specifications, project specifications and particular specification
• Reasons of differences of project tenders between contractors when they submit the tenders
• What is material specifications in projects and what is its main purpose?
• Methods of materials description, their functional properties and environmental compact
• Definition of project specifications
• Identifying the basic group of materials
• Information’s of each material, including description of its characteristics and properties
• Details of technical specifications, project specifications and classifications
• Materials handling, storage, inspection, rejection, and testing
• Using comparative formats to prose alternative materials

Who Should Attend: Client representatives, project directors, project managers and their deputies, contracts managers, architects, quantity surveyors, value engineers, cost control engineers, project engineers, site manager, material engineers, site engineers, site inspectors, and other engineers of different disciplines in projects, engineers who works in private and government sector, the fresh graduate engineers. Engineers who work with developers, investors, project managers, consultants, contractors, bankers, lawyers, and accountants