3.

2 Determine the measurement technique and process to suit the particular situation CUT AND SHUFFLE METHOD The system of cut and shuffle was developed in the early 1960s and by the late 1970s probably one of the most widely used methods of entering dimensions and descriptions. It has been aptly described as a rationalised traditional procedure. Unlike abstracting and billing there is no universally accepted format and many different paper ruling and methods of implementation are used in different offices. Some offices even use more than one system to suit different types of work. However, the following characteristics apply to most systems: 1) Dimension paper is subdivided into four or five separate sections which can subsequently be split into individual slips. 2) Only one description with its associated dimension is written on each section. 3) Dimension sheets are subsequently split into separate slips and sorted into bill work sections or elements or elements and eventually into bill order. 4) Following the intermediate processes of calculation and editing, the slips form the draft for typing the final bill of quantities. The cut and shuffle system is designed to eliminate the preparation and checking of the abstract and draft bill. Hence there is no only one major written operation, namely taking off, compared with the three involved with abstracting and billing. By 1997 this system had been largely superseded by computerized methods of bill production.