Super Structure Construction

The Royal Institution of Charter (RICS) published in 2012 the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), Principles, Instructions, Elements, and Definitions of the Basic Standard Form of Cost Analysis, Fourth Edition (NRM), provides basic costs. Explains the rules for preparing. Analysis in standard BCIS format. According to
BCIS, the term “bodywork” includes:
frame: Support frame. Half-timbered building main floor and roof beams, sleepers, roof trusses. Covering columns and beams for structural or protective purposes. Upper floors: Top floor landings with suspended floors above or below the basement, service floors, balconies, sloping floors, passageways, and parts of the floor rather than part of the stairs. Roofs: roof structures, roof covers, roof drains, skylights, roof elements. Stairs and ramps: Construction of ramps, stairs, ladders, etc. connecting floors at different levels. External walls: External enclosing walls including walls to basements but excluding walls to basements designed as retaining walls. Windows, doors and openings in external walls. Internal walls, partitions, balustrades, moveable room dividers, cubicles and the like. Doors, hatches and other openings in internal walls and partitions. This excludes; the substructure, finishes, fittings, furnishings, equipment and services.
Some broader definitions simply consider the superstructure to include all works above ground level, although clearly, this is a fairly ambiguous description.