International Comparison of Elemental Classifications

摘要

The European Committee for Construction Economics CEEC was set up over 20 years ago as a pan European group of professional associations in the area of construction economics. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) represents the United Kingdom. Two important aims of the CEEC are harmonization of working methods and the exchange of information. Harmonization doesn't have to mean we all end up doing things in exactly the same way. Indeed this would be the end of any innovation. The code of measurement for cost planning produced by a CEEC working group creates a coordinated overall framework, enabling exchange of data at high level while still permitting differing national approaches and new innovative local developments. The need for the code became apparent following a conference in Lousanne at which representatives from each CEEC member country were invited to describe the main method used to estimate a construction cost based on a quantitative description and to apply that method to a common example. The common example was a new building for a research institute of advanced technologies, to be built at the university campus of Roskilde, some 30 km west of Copenhagen. The building comprises 1800 m{sup}2 office space. The degree of detail provided corresponds to layout drawings on scale 1:300 with an outline specification and an elemental bill of quantities. The quantities were based on the Danish elemental classification and provided a common basis for all estimates.