Masonry, brick & block

Brick, block and stone counts; mortar and grout volumes; CMU cell and bond-beam fill; arches, lintels and parapets; wall ties and veneer support; and the checks a masonry wall has to pass — prism ratio, shear, pier capacity, equivalent thickness.

Whether the unit is carrying load or covering something that is. A veneer is an estimating problem — area, unit size, waste, ties. A loadbearing wall is a capacity problem, and those calculators ask for the mortar type, the unit strength and the grouting pattern because the answer changes with all three.

The render or stucco over it, which is cladding; block paving laid on sand, which is paving; and the footing under it.