Electrical

Quantity take-off

Türkçe: Metraj

Extracting the work items of a project (cable metres, luminaire counts, boards, etc.) as measurements and quantities.

// EXPLANATION

Quantity take-off underpins both the tender price and progress payments. The estimated quantities taken from drawings are compared with those measured on site, and any difference is documented.

// ALSO KNOWN AS

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// RELATED TERMS

Progress paymentThe interim payment document that turns the work a contractor completed in a period into a sum using unit prices and measured quantities. Site measurement bookThe site book in which measurements of completed work are recorded and on which progress payments rely.

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