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III-Use of Mensuration in Quantities

The document discusses how mensuration, or measurement of areas and volumes, is used in quantity surveying to measure building quantities. It provides an example of calculating the girth or perimeter of a rectangular building by taking the external or internal dimensions and adjusting for wall thickness at corners. The center line measurement of walls is important for dimensions used in foundations, brickwork, and other building elements.

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III-Use of Mensuration in Quantities

The document discusses how mensuration, or measurement of areas and volumes, is used in quantity surveying to measure building quantities. It provides an example of calculating the girth or perimeter of a rectangular building by taking the external or internal dimensions and adjusting for wall thickness at corners. The center line measurement of walls is important for dimensions used in foundations, brickwork, and other building elements.

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III- Use of Mensuration in Quantities


MENSURATION is concerned with the measurement of areas and volumes
of triangles, rectangles, circles, etc., and some basic knowledge of this
subject is required by all quantity surveying students. This chapter sets
out to explain how the principles of mensuration are used in the measure-
ment of building quantities.
A list of mensuration formulae is included in Appendix II at the end
of the book for reference purposes. On the figures that follow dimensions
containing a decimal marker are in metres and all others are in millimetres.
Readers who are not familiar with metric dimensions may find the con-
version table in Appendix III helpful.

GIRTH OF BUILDINGS
(a) Rectangular Buildings
One of the most common mensuration problems with which the
quantity surveying student is concerned is the measurement of the girth
or perimeter of a building. This length is required for foundations, external
walls, etc.
The length may be calculated on a straight-forward rectangular
building by determining the total external length of walling and making a
deduction for each external angle equivalent to the thickness of the wall.
Alternatively, the internal length might be taken and an addition made for
each of the external angles. The following example will serve to illustrate
this point.
15· 000
FIG I
t-2?5 mm cavity wall

0
0
0
cD

GIRTH OF RECTANGULAR BUILDING


(a) Taking external dimensions:
15·00
6·00
Sum of one long and one short side 2/21·00
Sum of all four sides (measured externally) 42·00
Less corners 4/275. 1·10
Girth of building (measured on centre line
of external walls) 40·90

I. H. Seeley, Building Quantities Explained


© Ivor H. Seeley 1969
III-Use of Mensuration in Quantities 21
(b) Taking internal dimensions:
14·45
5·45
2/19·90
39·80
Add corners 4/275 1·10
Girth of building 40·90

The following sketch illustrates why it is necessary to take the full


thickness of the wall when adjusting for corners.

FIG li
y 0· ·-·-·-+
I
limmm _,
t
ADJUSTMENT FOR CORNERS

Assuming that in this particular case the external dimensions have been
supplied and these have to be adjusted to give the girth on the centre line
through the intersection point 0. The procedure is made clearer if the
centre lines are extended past 0 to meet the outer wall faces at Y and Z.
It is then apparent that the lengths to be deducted are XYand XZ, which
are equal to OZ and 0 Y, respectively. These are equivalent to half the
thickness of the wall in each case and so together are equal to the full
thickness of the wall.
This centre line measurement is extremely important, as it provides
the length to be used in the dimensions for trench excavation, planking
and strutting, concrete in foundations, brickwork and damp-proof course.
In the case of hollow walls with a faced outer skin, three different lengths
will be required when 'taking-off' the dimensions of the brickwork, as
the two skins and the forming of the cavity have each to be measured
separately.
The centre line of wall measurement will be required for the formation
of the cavity and an addition or deduction will be needed for each corner,
on a plain rectangular building, to give the centre line measurement of
each skin. The amount of the adjustment for each corner will be the
thickness of the skin plus the width of the cavity, i.e. 110 mm +50 mm =
160 mm on a 275 mm hollow wall.

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