These are typical pages taken from an outline Schedule of Works (SoW). This is the first page, which deals with preparatory work. Each work item is described in detail, and the Cost Consultant has put an estimated price beside each item. A version of this SoW without the prices shown on it will be sent to builders for their tenders for this project. With a SoW prices for individual items can be directly compared between builders, additions and subtractions can be made to the work in a structured way, and any new or extra work can be priced on a pro-rata rate with rates shown in the SoW. All in all it is a most valuable tool for helping keep proper control of costs.
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This outline Schedule of Works is written by hand, but it is precise and exact in its details - and the handwriting is legible too!
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Another SoW page. On this page there are references to beams - BM1 and BM2 which are named on the Building Regulations drawings that accompany this Sow. Also referred to here is a room named on the plans - GF5. Identification of rooms, doors and windows on the plans greatly assists clarity in the Schedule of Works.
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This third typical SoW page is included just to give a flavour of the type of item and description found in an outline SoW. Beside many of the item descriptions are a measure of the work - for example in square or cubic metres, which the Cost Consultant has measured from the plans. Beside this there is a cost rate per square metre or cubic metre for the work, which the Cost Consultant has taken from a pricing book. To the extreme right of the page is the estimated cost for that item. At the bottom of the page is a page total.
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Skipping on to the final pages of the outline Schedule of Works... We come to a summary of Provisional Sums. Provisional Sums ar are price allowances that are put in the SoW against items for which an exact cost is not yet known, but for which an allowance is desired to be included in the final project costing. These Provisional Sums may or may not be expended depending upon how the project develops, but they are included to give a realistic cost buildup for the project. The builder does not price these - the allowance that is made is an estimate by the Cost Consultant.
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Arriving at the end of the outline Schedule of Works we come to the Summary pages. These tally the cost totals of the individual pages of the SoW. Here pages 1 to 25 are tallied...
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...and here are the tallys of pages 26 to 37. Below that is a Subtotal for the project. But the SoW is not complete yet...
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The final page leaves space for the Contractor to add a price figure for individual items of their overheads involved in executing the work (called Builder's Preliminaries here). They will frequently lump this altogether in one sum and may even include profit with the overheads/Builder's Preliminaries which follows. At the very bottom is the Grand Total which is left blank here for a Contractor to fill in.
