Abstract
Up to the middle of the nineteenth century it was normal practice to measure and value the work after completion. This practice gave rise to various problems as, for instance, when some of the craftsmen’s surveyors made extravagant claims for waste of material in executing the work on the site, and the architects felt obliged to engage surveyors to contest these claims.
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Seeley, I.H. (1987). Measurement and Pricing of Maintenance Work. In: Building Maintenance. Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18925-0_9
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