quantity surveyors jargon

QUANTITY SURVEYORS JARGON AND LANGUAGE

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

AIM• TO GIVE A SMALL IDEA ON THE

LANGUAGE AND THE JARGON WHICH IS USED BY QUANTITY SURVEYORS

OBJECTIVES• What is Technical Language• Why the Language Important for Quantity

Surveyors• Target Audience • Special Terms for Quantity Surveying• QS Glossaries• Abbreviations

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’’

WHY THE LANGUAGE IMPORTANT FOR QUANTITY SURVEYORS

• Key parties• Contact with all other parties • To become specialist in the subject

TARGET AUDIENCE • THE SURVEYOR• THE ARCHITECT• THE ENGINEERS • THE BUILDER• THE PROJECT MANAGER

• 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

Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity Surveying

Science

• 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

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• Preliminary• Done in preparation for something fuller or

more important.

• Feasibility Study• An assessment of the practicality of a

proposed plan or method.


Surveying Science

• Procurement• The action of obtaining or procuring

something.

• Estimate• An approximate calculation or judgement

of the value , number , quantity or extent of something.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• 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.


Surveying Science

• Bill Of Quantities

• A document used in tendering in the construction industry in which materials , parts & labor are itemized.


Surveying Science

CONCLUSION

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