Estimating & Scheduling Work Practice Document Template
Submitted by James Bertram on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 19:52
Current at: 10 October 2010 (C)
Why develop this Technical Document Template?
The intent of the As-Built Learning Exchange (ABLE) Common Practice protocol is to resource work practices that deliver affordability, compliance and performance gains.
This document provides a template for describing the Estimating & Scheduling Work Practices required for quantities and costs to reflect specified building work.
Where, when, and who can use this Technical Document Template?
Document templates can only be used in Western Australia and only apply for the Building Code of Australia Volume 2 for Class 1 and 10 Buildings (BCA).
Building Professionals are granted Open Exchange Rights to use this resource to learn about better ways to work. Open Exchange Rights do not extend to any other use (distribution, business etc) until an Exchange Agreement has been entered into with ABLE.
Users accept the Conditions of Use that apply to all ABLE material.
How should this Technical Document Template be used?
Adapt and Then Adopt – just like the “beware of the dog” sign on the gate, better technical descriptions need to be approached carefully – they too can bite if not approached properly!
Document templates are intended to be reviewed and adapted to suit business compliance and workmanship choices before being adopted.
Quantifying & Costing Protocol – located at the head of the document, this records the administrative practice needed for consistent estimating and scheduling outcomes and captures the information needed to make new staff inductions quicker and more effective.
It is intended that this schedule will be reviewed and the protocols amended to reflect individual quantifying and costing practices.
General Items – this section lists general items such as scaffold, crane and labourer costs that can apply to a range of building work descriptions.
It is intended that new and/or amended descriptions will be added to the template as users who are willing to participate in the development of better common practice documents provide feedback to ABLE about other “likely to occur” building contingencies.
Building Compliance & Workmanship – this section adopts the common information structure so that costing decisions can be easily cross-referenced to Specified building work descriptions and the selections nominated in the Addenda.
Rather than create individual estimating and scheduling descriptions, a master description schedule has been developed with an adjacent table for adding Costing (estimating) and Ordering Notes (scheduling), nominating the costing type required (quote, PC/PS$ allowance, take-off), and for tagging which drawings are issued at each stage.
It is intended that new and/or amended descriptions will be added to the template as users who are willing to participate in the development of better common practice documents provide feedback to ABLE about other “likely to occur” building element notes.
What format options are available?
Click the link below to download the pdf version document.
“Word file” versions can be accessed as part of an Exchange Agreement.
Building Professional Registration or Login Required
To download the file estimatingscheduling-template-10-october-2010-d.pdf you need to login to the As-Built Learning Exchange. If you are a Building Professional and you do not have login access, you will need to register.