Digital approaches to building measurement: Standards, tools and techniques

To align the teaching and learning of building measurement with current industry practices and standards in Australia, it is essential to update traditional teaching materials. Existing textbooks predominantly focus on manual measurement methods and provide limited coverage of computer-based techniques that are now widely adopted in professional practice. This handbook addresses this gap by integrating digital measurement tools, particularly RIB CostX software, which reflects contemporary industry workflows. The approach adopted in this book aligns with the principles of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Methods of Measurement (ANZSMM) and supports alignment with industry expectations. This handbook covers key trades, namely groundworks, concrete, formwork, reinforcement, and masonry, which are covered in building measurement and estimating units such as SRE272-Building Measurement, SRE302- Building Measurement and Estimating, and SRQ774-Construction Measurement and Estimating.Online version of the resource: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/building-measurement-approaches/Attribution: Digital approached to building measurement: Standards, tools and techniques by Argaw Gurmu, Nilupa Udawatta, Gayani Karunasena, and Reza Taban is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 Licence © Deakin University.