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This was a question posed by John Macaulay, of Al Habtoor / Murray & Roberts, when he saw yet another option for the steelwork for the roof of the Central Administration building for the new Zayed University in Abu Dhabi land on his desk.

With the RICS actively promoting their recently published New Rules of Measurement for Cost Planning and soon to publish the Procurement volume which is heralded to replace SMM7 Masterbill customers are beginning to ask how we will be incorporating these new rules into our products.

More and more users are making use of Freeform Bills for Schedules of Rates, Schedules of Descriptions, Preliminaries, Demolitions and Alterations (or Downtakings) and Provisional/PC Sums sections of their Bills. Why?

Masterbill Elite was designed with Measurement in mind - find out how this improves upon MB3

Recent developments to QSCad mean that navigating a drawing using zooming and panning is now easier than ever.

Make your own mark on your drawing using Multiple Line Text

QSCad v3 includes a number of new 'Snap' options that will enable user measure faster and more accurately.

At the recent meeting of the Scottish Local Authority Masterbill User Group we were pleased to hear how users are getting to grips with the latest software and expanding its use.

Over the last few months a number of our users have shared their experience of electronic tendering with us by completing our online survey, the results make interesting reading.

It is not often that we have the opportunity to witness our software delivering real benefits to a customer but we were able to see it first hand during a recent visit to Abu Dhabi where we met Sarah Dichoso, a young QS from the Philippines working for Al Habtoor & Murray & Roberts on the new Zayed University Project.