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Setting Out

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Surveying for Engineers

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A definition often used for setting out is that it is the reverse of surveying. What is meant by this is that whereas surveying is the process of producing a plan or map of a particular area, setting out begins with the plan and ends with some particular engineering project correctly positioned in the area. This definition can be misleading since it implies that setting out and surveying are opposites. This is not true. Most of the techniques and equipment used in surveying are also used in setting out and it is important to realise that setting out is simply one application of surveying.

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14.19 Further Reading

  • A. C. Twort, Civil Engineering Supervision and Management (Arnold, London, 1972).

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  • Bulletin M83: 16, Measuring Practice on the Building Site, CIB Report No. 69, (National Swedish Institute for Building Research, 1983).

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  • A Manual of Setting-out Procedures (CIRIA, 1973).

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  • BS 5606, British Standard Code of Practice for Accuracy in Building (British Standards Institution, London, 1978).

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  • ISO 4463: Measurement methods for building — Setting out and measurement — Permissible measuring deviations (International Organisation for Standardization, Geneva).

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  • ISO/DP 8322 Procedure for determining the accuracy in use of measuring instruments (International Organisation for Standardization, Geneva).

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  • BRE Digest 234, Accuracy in Setting Out (Building Research Establishment, 1980).

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  1. Departement of Civil Engineering, Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK

    J. Uren BSc PhD MIHE (Senior Lecturers) & W. F. Price BSc MSc ARICS MIHE (Senior Lecturers)

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© 1985 J. Uren and W. F. Price

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Uren, J., Price, W.F. (1985). Setting Out. In: Surveying for Engineers. English Language Book Society student editions. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07348-1_14

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