What is Quantity Surveying

A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and contracts. Quantity surveyors play a key role, ensuring that development costs are appropriately and accurately managed

Quantity Surveying Assosiations

There are several Associations working locally and worldwide, to standardize Quantity Surveying methods and providing Quantity Surveying trainings to professionals. Please visit list of Associations on our website.

International Standards

ASTM international and ISO Standards are some of the firms proivding technical standards for Engineering works. Which specific Standard method will be applied for a project is normally based on cleint's requirement or consultant's suggestions.

Quantity Surveying E-Services

We introduce the E-Service tools system to calculate some of the basic Quantity Surveying calculations. In future more tools will be added which will surely help our Professionals at beginning level.

How to hire a Quantity Surveyor

A Quantity Surveyor is a key part of the construction process. Contact hiring firms or you can sk for recommendations and references from other persons or organizations that may have had similar projects. Our Jobs portal will be available soon.

Indian Standard Methods of measurement of building and civil engineering works

Whereas the Parliament of India has set out to provide a practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, and whereas the attached publication of the Bureau of Indian Standards is of particular interest to the public, particularly disadvantaged communities and those engaged in the pursuit of education and knowledge, the attached public safety standard is made available to promote the timely dissemination of this information in an accurate manner to the public.

Measurement occupies a very important place in the planning and execution of any civil engineering
work from the time of first estimates to the final completion and settlement of payments for a project. Methods followed for measurement are not uniform and considerable differences exist between practices followed by different construction agencies and also between various Central and State Government departments. While it is recognized that each system of measurement has to be specifically related to administrative and financial organizations within a department responsible for
the work, a unification of various systems at technical level has been accepted as very desirable,
specially as it permits a wider range of operation for civil engineering contractors and eliminates
ambiguities and misunderstandings of various systems followed.

Among various civil engineering items, measurement of buildings was the first to be taken up for
standardization and this standard having provisions relating to building work was first published in
1958 and was subsequently revised in 1964. In its second revision. the standard was issued in
different parts corresponding to different trades in building and civil engineering works. The third
revision of the standard was published in 1974.

This fourth revision has been brought out to incorporate the changes found necessary in light of
usage of this standard and the suggestions made by various bodies implementing it.


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IS 1200 : PART 1 : 1992         EARTHWORK
IS 1200 : PART 2 : 1974         CONCRETEWORKS
IS 1200 : PART 3 : 1976         BRICKWORK
IS 1200 : PART 4 : 1976         STONE MASONRY
IS 1200 : PART 5 : 1982         PART 5 FORM WORK
IS 1200 : PART 6 : 1974         PART 6 REFRACTORY WORK
IS 1200 : PART 7 : 1972         HARDWARE
IS 1200 : PART 8 : 1993         STEELWORK AND IRON WORK
IS 1200 : PART 9 : 1973         ROOFCOVERING (INCLUDING CLADDING)
IS 1200 : PART 10 : 1973       CEILING AND LININGS
IS 1200 : PART 11 : 1977       PAVING,FLOOR FINISHES DADO AND SKIRTING
IS 1200 : PART 12 : 1976       PLASTERINGAND POINTING
IS 1200 : PART 13 : 1994       WHITEWASHING, DISTEMPERING AND PAINTING OF BUILDINGS
IS 1200 : PART 14 : 1984       GLAZING
IS 1200 : PART 15 : 1987       PAINTING, POLISHING, VARNISHING ETC
IS 1200 : PART 16 : 1979       LAYING OF WATER AND SEWER LINES INCLUDING APPURTENANT
IS 1200 : PART 17 : 1985       ROAD WORK INCLUDING AIR FIELD PAVEMENTS
IS 1200 : PART 18 : 1974       DEMOLITION AND DISMANTLING
IS 1200 : PART 19 : 1981       WATERSUPPLY, PLUMBING AND DRAINS
IS 1200 : PART 20 : 1981       LAYING OF GAS AND OIL PIPELINES
IS 1200 : PART 21 : 1973       WOOD-WORK AND JOINERY
IS 1200 : PART 22 : 1982       MATERIALS
IS 1200 : PART 23 : 1988       PILING
IS 1200 : PART 24 : 1983       WELL FOUNDATIONS
IS 1200 : PART 25 : 1971       TUNNELING
IS 1200 : PART 26 : 1987       ACID RESISTANT LINING
IS 1200 : PART 27 : 1992       EARTHWORK DONE BY MECHANICAL APPLIANCES
IS 1200 : PART 28 : 1992       SOUNDINSULATION WORKS