SectionResources
Guides8
AudiencePractising surveyors
Reviewed26 August 2026

Guides for people who prepare bills for a living

Method, not marketing. Every page here is written to be useful whether or not you ever open BillMate — with the worked examples, the arithmetic and the assumptions on show.

Companion site

QS Fieldbook: method guides and free calculators.

Method guides and free calculators for quantity surveyors. No sign-up, nothing to buy. It is ours, it runs on its own subdomain, and there is nothing to buy on it — where a guide there needs a tool, it says so and links here.

By market

Localised resource hubs.

Where a market has enough genuinely local material to be worth grouping.

Nigeria

Naira rate analysis, a Nigerian BOQ structure, BESMM4 guidance and building a located rate library.

Nigerian resources

Everywhere else

The guides above are market-neutral in method even where the worked example is in naira. The arithmetic of a rate build-up does not change with the currency.

How these are written

Every guide states its assumptions, dates any price-related figure, and names the city and currency a worked example belongs to. Illustrative figures are labelled illustrative — we do not publish rate indices and would be sceptical of a software vendor who did.

Each page carries a byline naming who wrote it, the measurement standard it is written against, the market it covers, the date it was last reviewed and what it assumes. Where a page has been checked by a named chartered surveyor, the byline names them and gives the date of their review. If you find an error, tell uswe publish corrections.

Method is easier to judge in the doing.

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