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B/ESTIMATING AND QUANTITIES

BOQ preparation from your drawings.

We measure the quantities from your drawings, write the item descriptions in the format your tender or client asks for, and show where every quantity came from. Unpriced for tender documents, or priced on your rate basis.
Or your method of measurement
IS 1200
Traced to a drawing
Every line
Or unpriced, as you need
Priced
Agreed up front
Fixed fee
B-01/WHAT YOU SEND, WHAT YOU GETSAMPLE
YOU SEND

Drawings, the specification and the BOQ format you need.

DWGDrawingsPDFSpecificationXLSBOQ format
WE PREPARE

Our AI does the first pass and marks anything it isn’t sure of. An engineer resolves every marked item and signs the work off.

YOU GET

A bill of quantities in your format, with measurement sheets showing how each quantity was taken off, and a list of anything the drawings left unclear.

BILL OF QUANTITIES · BRIDGE, SPAN 2SIGNED OFF
ITEMDESCRIPTIONUNITQTY
2.03Reinforcement steel, Fe 500Dt186
2.07M35 concrete, pier capsm³312
3.02Elastomeric bearingsnos24
4.01Crash barrier, both sidesm420

ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE

B-02/WHAT'S INCLUDED04 PARTS
01

Measurement sheets

Each quantity worked out from the drawing dimensions, with the drawing and section it came from, so anyone can check it.

02

Item descriptions

Written to the specification and the measurement rules, in the wording your tender, client or schedule uses.

03

Your format

Your template, your item numbering and your trade grouping, in Excel with live formulas.

04

Pricing, if you want it

Rates on your schedule of rates or rate basis, with build-ups for anything the schedule doesn't cover.

B-03/HOW WE DO IT
  1. 01Read the drawingsEvery sheet read, and the drawings checked against each other and against the specification.
  2. 02MeasureQuantities taken off by element, to the method of measurement your project uses.
  3. 03Describe and groupItems written and grouped into your format and trade sections.
  4. 04CheckQuantities recomputed and the bill checked against the drawings before an engineer signs it off.
B-04/STANDARDS AND FORMATS
MeasurementIS 1200, MoRTH and CPWD measurement rules, POMI, RICS NRM2, CESMM4
FormatsGovernment tender BOQs, client templates, departmental abstract formats
StructuresBridges, culverts, roads, retaining walls, buildings, water supply and drainage
DeliveryExcel with live formulas, with measurement sheets and a PDF set

Working to something else? Tell us what your project uses and we’ll confirm it before we start.

B-05/FROM OUR WORKCASE STUDY
Minor bridge, longitudinal elevation: two 25 m spans of PSC girders on piled abutments and a central pierRoad, culverts, bridges and sea walls on an islandA 47 km highway with over 100 culverts and six bridges, with about 2,000 quantities each traced to its source.Read the case study
B-06/QUESTIONS05

Questions about boq preparation

Send a project

A BOQ lists each item of work with its quantity and unit. An estimate adds the rates and totals. We can deliver an unpriced BOQ for tender documents, or price it on your rate basis.

The one your project specifies: IS 1200 and departmental rules in India, POMI in the Gulf, RICS NRM2 or CESMM4 in the UK.

Yes. Send the template and we fill it in, keeping your item numbering and grouping.

We measure what is drawn and list what isn't, with the assumption we made or the question for the designer, rather than guessing quantities into the bill.

Yes. We're happy to sign one before you share any drawings.
B-07/ALSO IN ESTIMATING