bs:5837, how to go about it?

[sloth]

Once again thanks for all the replies, really appreciate it! I just did tech cert at chorley last week, and guessing from one the other threads I'd say was in the same 5837 as you, I was the hairy faced pony tail toting hippy hope it went ok for you, I'm worried I spent too long on the first question, only leaving about 20 mins for the 40 marker at the end! Silly git, sure the others went ok though

[Paul Barton]

I can not compete with the big boys when it come to large scale developments, as i can not afford the software, and generally their complcated nature makes my head hurt. However for smaller scale development i charge £100 and use the maps that the architect have already drawn up. If the development is then given the green light, i charge an additional £50 to mark up the RPA's etc, and for a couple of site visits when i am passing to make sure that the naughty builder is not abusing the agreed terms.

 

Blimey, I'm glad you're not based around here with those prices!

 

Back to the question about CAD though - I guess alot of architects and developers like it because it is their language. They can plop a CAD tree constraints plan straight on to their masterplan and play about with the site layout.

 

And it looks real pretty!

[Arbgirl]

Once again thanks for all the replies, really appreciate it! I just did tech cert at chorley last week, and guessing from one the other threads I'd say was in the same 5837 as you, I was the hairy faced pony tail toting hippy hope it went ok for you, I'm worried I spent too long on the first question, only leaving about 20 mins for the 40 marker at the end! Silly git, sure the others went ok though

 

 

Yep it was the Tech Cert at Chorley

 

I focussed mainly on the 40 mark bit as I thought thats where I can pick up points - didnt do much on the plan (quickly shoved the car park in "somewhere" lol) and didnt finish calculating the RPAs but did most of the survey

 

Results arent until Xmas - hopefully they will be released before the colleges break up for Xmas hols or people will have to wait until Jan

 

I was the ginger hippy BTW

[sloth]

I thought 100 sounded a little on the low side, considering insurance, travel costs and seeing/hearing anywhere between 65 and 100 per hour for this sort of work.

 

And hopefully results will be soon, was told by one examiner they may well be sooner than 8 weeks as papers don't need to be sent from here to there and back again for marking/moderating, fingers crossed, will be pulling out hair by Xmas!

[Arbgirl]

I thought 100 sounded a little on the low side, considering insurance, travel costs and seeing/hearing anywhere between 65 and 100 per hour for this sort of work.

 

And hopefully results will be soon, was told by one examiner they may well be sooner than 8 weeks as papers don't need to be sent from here to there and back again for marking/moderating, fingers crossed, will be pulling out hair by Xmas!

 

 

Did you notice the manhole cover......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didnt

 

 

Did you notice the cavity at 3 metres? I did at least spot that one

[slack ma girdle]

I thought 100 sounded a little on the low side, considering insurance, travel costs and seeing/hearing anywhere between 65 and 100 per hour for this sort of work.

 

£100 is about what people are prepared to spend, which is why i am doing about 2 or 3 a week at the moment. Once you get your eye in so to speak you can knock them out in a couple of hours. Remember i am only doing the simple ones.

[Ian Flatters]

I use sketchup8 free from google. Once you've spent a few hours learning how to do the quick lines and shapes its very fast especially if you've done the site measuring up. The only problem is that it doesn't give you a scale as you go so can require printing, measuring and zooming to work out the scale.

 

It also can look alright, imo better than a hand drawn map.

 

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[arb culture]

Did you notice the manhole cover......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didnt

 

 

Did you notice the cavity at 3 metres? I did at least spot that one

 

At the risk of once again derailing a thread (I'm really sorry about this but I so often see things included as an aside which I find really interesting).

 

Why on earth would you be expected to notice a manhole cover on a BS5837 survey?

[sloth]

Just had a look at the sketchup software, looks interesting. So can u plot trees onto existing maps? Do you also need autocad to place the file/info into?

Also, can u have 'layers' like autocad does, and assign tags or numbers to trees?

What about shade/rpa's?

 

 

Arbculture- the drain cover could have been noted in the context of the exam question in that car park run off could be drained through it, it may have a bearing on where you chose to place the car park, and it could have been noted on the map. I'm sure there will be other reasons, but I didn't notice it anyway!

[Ian Flatters]

Sketchup is very basic you have to add all the data yourself. Shade areas i have never added them to my plans just put a cavet in that i have not plotted them. Rpa's are easy to plot. its either a square or circle. Square are better as the contractor can price the fencing easier.