Quantity Surveyors

21st May - Rob Smith

How do you get value from your QS?

QS: approach

- experience

- benchmark

- premiums

- > deliver more value

Running a project smoothly, how a QS is important for a team/project = facilitator

1. Financial Awareness

1. units of definition (language to talk to QS, Client etc.)

2. Budget setting

1. hurdles which might delay; decision making, funding

Elemental summary: include all the assumptions given by the Architect

All neccessary input from consultants to finalise a full detailed cost plan to help the tender process

Advise on procurement routes to retain value/quality and keep costs down

Building Procurement

21st May - Jane Paterson

[UNC CASE STUDY: CDP on BC, lighting layouts?]

Highlight CDPs on As-Built drawings, highlight liability

Difference between Relevant Event (Extension of Time) and Relevant Matter (Loss&Expense, judged by QS)

[Interview question: How might this have been dealt with under a traditional contract]

AI: Omit provisional sum and add real sum

All Instructions must go through the Contract Administrator, never from Client (what if a Project Manager who works in-house with the Client is the Contract Administrator?)

Liquidated Damages: Certificate of Non-Completion

- overheads

- outlined in the Pre-Lims

Sectional Completion: Agreed at the outset

- dates for each section will be stated

Partial Possession: Agreed during contract

[EXAMINATION TIP: Implications of clauses and terms, to be able to have a discussion with an examiner]

Health & Safety

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