Prepare a bill to the ASAQS Standard System

What the ASAQS system is

The Standard System of Measuring Building Work, published by the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors, is the method of measurement South African building bills are prepared to. It is a mature, detailed system with a strong trade orientation, and South African bills have a recognisable shape as a result.

How BillMate handles it

• An ASAQS / SMM section template as a project starting point.
• The AI assistant, when used, is instructed to word and measure to the selected standard.
• ZAR as a supported currency, rounded to its own precision.
• Rate build-ups in local constituents, with each library rate carrying its province or city and the month it was priced.
• Provisional and prime cost sums carried as sums; collections and carried-forward summaries in the exported bill.

What it does not do. No compliance checking, no standard description library, and no BIM or IFC model take-off. BillMate structures and prices the bill; the measurement is yours.

Working across the region

A South African practice working into other African markets can hold projects in ZAR, NGN, KES and GHS on the same install, with one rate library that keeps each rate's location so they never blur together. What is localised, and what is only supported — the distinction matters and we keep it.

The South African market page works this through in rand: walls taken off on the centre-line girth, a wall rate that carries the generator as well as the bricklayer, a masonry trade bill, and preliminaries priced in the three parts a JBCC bill adjusts them in.