TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Peter TI - Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineering SN - 9781118561522 (pbk.) AV - TH437 .W56 2015 U1 - 624.1/8 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Chichester, UK, Hoboken, NJ PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Civil engineering KW - Materials KW - Construction industry KW - Materials management KW - Measurement KW - Risk assessment N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - -; Measurement has moved into a new and exciting era of on-screen quantification and BIM models, but this has changed nothing in terms of the basic principles underlying measurement - thoroughness - attention to detail, good organization, making your work auditable and above all, understanding the way building and engineering projects are designed and built. You must know the technology to be able to measure; This book will help the reader to give the confidence to both measure and understand measurement risk issues and to do so, in the best tradition of the likes of Willis and Seeley, to whom the industry owes a great debt of gratitude for their vision and expertise in the field of construction measurement ER -