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The resident engineer’s office records
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• the records must clearly show what has been paid for (under interim cer-
tificates) as distinct from what has been measured.
The foregoing can be catered for by showing, in the quantities calculation
book, two columns as shown in Fig. 13.3. The first column shows the total
volume for part of the works; the second shows an estimate of how much has
so far been certified for payment.
The measurement engineer will work from notebooks containing dimen-
sioned sketches of the amount of work done measured by himself, or by assis-
tant engineers and inspectors who send him notes. All these he will file, and
armed with the quantities he calculates as a result, he checks the contractor’s
monthly claim in detail, item by item. Where he thinks something has been
mis-measured or over-claimed by the contractor he raises this with the agent –
or more usually with the contractor’s quantity surveyor. Comparison of quantity
measurements takes place to see where the difference might lie. If the difference
is one of interpretation of how the quantity should be measured, the RE will

Fig. 13.3. A page of a quantities calculation book