Quantity & construction surveyor
Quantities, BoQs, markups, as-built and survey drawings you can check line by line.
Ten years on construction sites in Moscow, from mine surveyor on the metro to head of the survey department. Now I measure villas, townhouses and an apartment building in Cyprus.
Services
Send drawings in PDF or DWG, or survey data. You get Excel with a drawing reference on every line and a colour markup of everything measured.
From PDF or DWG: drywall and ceilings, finishes, concrete, masonry, doors and windows, MEP counts. Excel with a drawing reference on every line, plus a colour PDF markup.
Member list by mark, lengths, kg/m and weights, waste allowance, marked-up drawings.
From survey points, contours or a grading plan. TIN volumes checked by grid and cross-sections, a cut/fill map, topsoil and shrink stated. Try my free Earthwork Volumes calculator.
Survey data to clean topographic and as-built drawings in AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
Floor plans and site plans, PDF or scan to a clean layered DWG, permit sheets.
Excel, Python, SQL and AutoLISP for repetitive takeoff work.
Selected work
Each sample links to its files on GitHub: Excel, marked-up PDFs, DWGs and notes.
NDAClient work is under NDA, so these samples use public bid documents or sample drawings I prepared. No client data.
Public bid documents · US units
Third-floor tenant improvements, City-County Building, Madison WI. Dane County Public Works, RFB 108049.
15 queries to the client. Lengths taken from the PDF vector linework, scale checked on 3 sheets.
View the takeoff on GitHub →
Portfolio sample · US units
A 300 x 220 ft commercial site: 667 survey points to a TIN, a building pad and parking at 2 %, 3:1 slopes to daylight. Volumes by three methods that agree within 2 %: TIN to TIN, a 25 ft grid and average end areas.
Portfolio sample · Metric
A 24 x 12 m portal-frame shed measured the way fabricators ask for it. Every member colour-coded by type with count tags, and an Excel BoM by mark with lengths, kg/m, weights and a waste allowance.
View on GitHub →
Portfolio sample · US units
A 2,400 SF suite: partitions by type, GWB, studs and track, ACT and grid. Every quantity is a live formula.
Portfolio sample · AutoCAD
An old blue-line plan, scanned at an angle, redrawn in AutoCAD with proper layers, door and window blocks and true dimensions. Scaled to the 40'-0" overall and checked against the 28'-0" one.
View on GitHub →
Public example plan · NZ
Room by room: walls, ceilings, doors and trims in m² and lm, to NZ painting practice. Openings over 0.5 m² deducted, assumed wall heights flagged.
View on GitHub →
Excel template
Dimension sheet, bill and summary in Excel. Every quantity in the bill is a formula over measured lines, deductions stay visible in red, and assumptions go on a queries sheet.
View on GitHub →
Portfolio sample · AutoCAD
An 11x17 sheet plotted from AutoCAD: kitchen DWV and water supply risers, electrical riser, 24-space panel schedule and NEC 220.83(A) load calculation.
View on GitHub →How I work
Missing dimensions and conflicts go on a query list before measuring starts.
One colour per item on the PDF, so you can see what is included and what is not.
Every line shows the drawing, the location and the dimensions used.
Totals are cross-checked by a second method, such as room by room against the gross area. Assumptions and exclusions are listed.
Not sure yet? Start with one sheet or one trade.You can check the format and the numbers before you send the full set.
Message me on UpworkBackground
11+ years in construction. Ten years of surveying on Moscow sites, now quantity surveying in Cyprus.
Now · Cyprus
At a real estate developer. BoQs for villas, townhouses and an apartment building, with 3D concrete models to cross-check the volumes.
10 years · Moscow
Guides
Short, practical guides from day-to-day work with drawings, published on GitHub. The trade-by-trade takeoff checklists (drywall, finishes, concrete, steel, doors, earthworks, checking a BoQ) are in takeoff-checklists.
Move a drawing that sits at 0,0 onto real-world coordinates, tag its coordinate system and check the result on a control point.
Read the guide →Import, scale from a known dimension, redraw on proper layers and deliver a DWG that someone else can work with.
Read the guide →From survey and grading design to earthwork volumes: surfaces, three methods, topsoil and shrink, and what to deliver.
Read the guide →