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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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the 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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
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.
Words & TERMS Specific Only For the Quantity
Surveying Science
• 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
CONCLUSION
Q AND A