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Recursive Typicals

A competent quantity takeoff software must support recursive typicals.

"Building Type A" has Levels

  • Level 01,
  • Level 02,
  • Level 03,
  • Level 04,
  • Level 05

"Building Type A Levels 02-04" is typical of

  • "Building Type A/Level 02",
  • "Building Type A/Level 03",
  • "Building Type A/Level 04"

"Building Type A" is typical of

  • "Building 1",
  • "Building 2",
  • "Building 3"

In all cases, a typical must behave as the Type it is typical of, (i.e. the process to assign takeoff to "Levels 02-10" must be essentially the same as to do so to "Level 01") and the use of a typical must not exclude the use of the breakdowns it is typical of (i.e. the use of "Levels 02-10" must not exclude the use of "Level 02").