STANDARD METHOD OF MEASUREMENT

OF BUILDING WORKS
SEVENTH EDITION REVISED 1998

AMENDMENT 3
Page Rule Correction
12 4.4.6(e) Add ‘and all costs in connection with disposal’.

22 A51.1.* Insert under 2 above horizontal line new rule 3 ‘Main contractor’s
overheads’

Unit column Insert ‘%’.

A51.1.3. Renumber ‘3’ as ‘4’.

23 C21 Heading Delete ‘Toxic/Hazardous material removal’ and insert ‘Non-Hazardous and
Hazardous material removal’.

1.*.*.6 Delete and insert new rule ‘6 Non-hazardous material’.

1.*.*.7 Insert after 6 above horizontal line new rule ‘7 Hazardous material’.

D3 Delete and insert new rule ‘D3 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.

28 1.*.*.4 Delete and insert new rule ‘4 Non-hazardous material’

1.*.*.5 Insert new rule ‘5 Hazardous material’

D4 Delete and insert new rule ‘D4 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.

29 P1(d) Add ‘and the Soil Investigation Report together with the chemical analyses
thereof from which the inert, non-hazardous and hazardous material
classifications can be determined’.

30 D2 Delete and insert new rule ‘D2 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.

D3 Delete and insert ‘D3 Not used’.

3 Delete and insert ‘Items extra over excavating in inert material irrespective of
depth’.

3.2 Delete and insert new rule ‘2 Non-hazardous material’.

3.3 Delete and insert new rule ‘3 Hazardous material’.

31 D7 Delete ‘D32’ and insert ‘D30’.

8.3.*.3 Delete and insert new rule ‘3 Non-hazardous material’.

8.3.*.4 Delete and insert new rule ‘4 Hazardous material’.

32 C5 Insert new rule ‘C5 Filling arising from the excavations is deemed to include
multiple handling at the contractor’s discretion’.

C5 Renumber existing ‘C5’ as ‘C6’.

34 9.*.*.3 Delete and insert new rule ‘3 Non-hazardous material’.

9.*.*.4 Delete and insert new rule ‘4 Hazardous material’.

D3 Delete and insert new rule ‘D3 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.
35 23.*.*.3 Delete and insert new rule ‘3 Non-hazardous material’.

23.*.*.4 Delete and insert new rule ‘4 Hazardous material’.

D5 Delete and insert new rule ‘D5 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.

38 2 Delete and insert new rule ‘2 Items extra over excavating in inert material and
disposing thereof’.

2.1 Delete and insert new rule ‘1 Non-hazardous material’.

2.2 Delete and insert new rule ‘2 Hazardous material’.

D1 Delete and insert new rule ‘D1 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.

81 * Insert after 18 above horizontal line new rule ‘19 Valleys’.

19-33 Renumber rules ‘19 to 33’ as ‘20 to 34’.

126 1.*.*11 Delete and insert new rule ‘11 Non-hazardous material’.

1.*.*12 Delete and insert new rule ‘12 Hazardous material’.

D3 Delete and insert new rule ‘ D3 All material is deemed to be inert unless
otherwise described’.

139 P1 Insert new rule ‘P1 Information regarding the nature of excavation work is
described in accordance with Section D20, Information Provided’.

P1 Renumber existing rule ‘P1’ as ‘P2’.

140 4 Delete and insert new rule ‘4 Items extra over excavating in inert material,
fencing, special supports and independent gate posts irrespective of type’.

4.2 Insert new rule ‘2 Excavating in non-hazardous material’.

4.3 Insert new rule ‘3 Excavating in hazardous material’.

4.2 Renumber existing rule ‘2’ as ‘4’.

4.3 Renumber existing rule ‘3’ as ‘5’.

5 Above ‘Gates’ extend horizontal line across fifth column.

141 2.1 Delete and insert new rule ‘1 Bends’.

142 6.9 Delete and insert new rule ‘9 Others, described’.

145 1.*.*.11 Delete and insert new rule ‘D11 Non-hazardous material’.

1.*.*.12 Delete and insert new rule ‘D12 Hazardous material’.

D4 Delete and insert new rule ‘D4 All excavation is deemed to be in inert material
unless otherwise described’.

146 D6 Delete ‘Retailing’ and insert ‘Detailing’.

C3 Add ‘and rocker pipes’.

Note: This Amendment results from changes to the definitions of inert, hazardous and non-hazardous materials.
The opportunity has been taken to incorporate corrections of minor anomalies, spelling errors etc.

1 June 2009