Working notes for quantity surveyors
Measure clearly.
Price defensibly.
Practical guides, transparent calculators and field-ready templates for people who turn drawings, specifications and current market evidence into a bill of quantities.
Start with the work
Field notes & working tools
Each resource solves one job, shows its assumptions and leads to a more structured workflow only when that is genuinely helpful.
Excel workbook · Free
Free BOQ template with a worked example
Download a blank bill and follow room dimensions into measured quantities, line amounts and a checked subtotal.
Open resourceField guide · 9 min
How to prepare a bill of quantities from drawings
A practical sequence for taking-off, squaring, abstracting, describing and billing work without losing the audit trail.
Open resourceWorking tool · Free
Unit rate build-up calculator
Separate material, labour, plant, overhead and profit. Keep every assumption visible before a rate enters your BOQ.
Open resourceWorking tool · Free
Taking-off dimension sheet
A clean dimension-paper structure for linear, area, volume and count work—with deductions and timesing kept legible.
Open resourceWhen a worksheet is no longer enough
Carry the method into a complete BOQ.
BillMate brings taking-off, rate build-ups, your own local rate library and client-ready outputs into one offline-first workspace.