Quantity surveyors jargon
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This document provides an introduction to the technical language and jargon used by quantity surveyors. It defines technical language as the characteristic idiom of a special activity or group. The language is important for quantity surveyors to communicate effectively with key parties like architects, engineers, and builders. It then lists and defines several key terms that are specific to quantity surveying, such as consultant, client, contractor, supplier, employee, tender, and more. The document aims to familiarize students with the standard words and phrases used in the field in order to simplify complex meanings and concepts.
Quantity surveyors jargon
- 1. QUANTITY SURVEYORS JARGON AND LANGUAGE ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT
- 2. AIM • TO GIVE A SMALL IDEA ON THE LANGUAGE AND THE JARGON WHICH IS USED BY QUANTITY SURVEYORS
- 3. OBJECTIVES • What is Technical Language • Why the Language Important for Quantity Surveyors • Target Audience • Special Terms for Quantity Surveying • QS Glossaries • Abbreviations
- 4. WHAT IS TECHNICAL LANGUAGE The main trait that distinguishes jargon from the rest of a language is special vocabulary—including some words specific to it and, often, narrower senses of words that out groups would tend to take in a broader sense. Jargon is thus "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group’’
- 5. WHY THE LANGUAGE IMPORTANT FOR QUANTITY SURVEYORS • Key parties • Contact with all other parties • To become specialist in the subject
- 6. TARGET AUDIENCE • THE SURVEYOR • THE ARCHITECT • THE ENGINEERS • THE BUILDER • THE PROJECT MANAGER
- 7. • In order to face this audience, there are standard words/phrase which simplify of various complexity meanings which are nice to have by students. It can be discussed under: • Definitions • Terminology • Glossary • References TARGET AUDIENCE
- 8. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 9. • Consultant • A person who provides expert advice professionally. • Client • A person or organization using the services of a lawyer or other professional person or company. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 10. • Contractor • A person or firm that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labor to perform a service or do a job. • Supplier • Supplier is a person or entity that is the source for goods or services. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 11. • Employee • Employee is a person working for another person or a business firm for pay. • Tender • A tender is an offer to do or perform and act which the party offering , is bound to perform to the party to whom the occur is made Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 12. • Reference • The use of a source of a information in order to ascertain something. • Scaffolding • A temporary structure on the out side of a building made of wooden planks & metal poles , used by work men while building , repairing or cleaning the building. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 13. • Preliminary • Done in preparation for something fuller or more important. • Feasibility Study • An assessment of the practicality of a proposed plan or method. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 14. • Procurement • The action of obtaining or procuring something. • Estimate • An approximate calculation or judgement of the value , number , quantity or extent of something. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 15. • Claim • State or assert that something is the case , typically without providing evidence or proof. • Interim Payment • A payment made while waiting for other payments or the size of other payments , to be decided. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 16. • Elevation • The action or fact of raising or being raised to a higher or more important level , state or position. • Section • Any of the more or less distinct parts in to which something is or may be devided or from which it is made up. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 17. • Taker Off • A person who or thing which removes something specially one employed or designed to do so. • Tender Drawings • These are the drawings given to the bidders at the tender time to price the blank Bill Of Quantity. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 18. • Shop Drawing • Shop Drawing is a drawing which gives assistance to the people who are doing the actual work at site. • Schematic Drawings • A drawing showing all significant components , parts or tasks of a circuit , device or project by means of standards of symbol. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 19. • As- sold Estimate • The estimate which matches the agreed items & price for the project score. • Escalation • Changes in the cost or price of specific goods or services in a given economy over a period. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 20. • Foreman • The worker or tradesman who is in charge of a construction crew. • Sub Contractor • An individual or in many cases a business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of anothers contract. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 21. • Unit Cost • The cost for one measured unit of completed work activity. • Specification • An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material , product or service. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 22. • Bill Of Quantities • A document used in tendering in the construction industry in which materials , parts & labor are itemized. Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying Science
- 23. CONCLUSION
- 24. Q AND A