PDF Free Download | Construction quantity surveying a practical guide for the contractor’s QS by Donald Towey

Contents of Construction quantity surveying

•   The construction industry
•   The client’s team
•   The professional quantity surveyor (PQS)
•   Architect
•   Structural engineer
•   Civil engineer
•   Service engineers
•   Main contractor
•   Legislation and control of the building process
•   Planning approval
•   Building Regulations and control
•   Health and safety
•   Industry networking
•   RICS
•   CIOB
•   Funding and market drivers
•   Economic and construction cycles
•   Global construction
•   Development of the quantity surveyor
•   Background
•   Personal traits and skills
•   Time and self-management
•   Education and training
•   Construction innovation and the quantity surveyor
•   Information technology (IT)
•   Environmental issues
•   Prospects and augmentation of the quantity surveyor
•   Employed roles
•   Independent roles
•   Women in the industry
•   Global and multicultural diversity
•   Prospects
•   Measurement and Quantities
•   Measurement guides and coverage rules
•   Contents
•   Measurement terminology
•   Take off and measuring techniques
•   Centre line calculation
•   Spot and composite items
•   Control of the system and delegation of tasks
•   Requests for Information (RFI)
•   Measurement example
•   Builder’s bills of quantities
•   Components
•   Draft and final bills
•   Using computers
•   Alternative bills of quantities
•   Working with the Main Contractor
•   Contracting organisations
•   Premises and assets
•   Management systems
•   Health and safety management
•   Environmental management
•   Quality management
•   Marketing for contracts
•   Estimating and the contractor’s quantity surveyor
•   Activity on receipt of tender documents
•   Subcontractor pricing
•   Builder’s schedules
•   Resources costing
•   Unit rate calculations
•   Preliminaries pricing
•   Estimating and quantity surveying software
•   Cost planned tenders
•   Value management
•   Project Commencement
•   The project team
•   Pre-construction handover
•   Office- and site-based roles
•   The construction programme
•   Programme float
•   Programme acceleration
•   Project administration
•   Cash flow
•   Cost targets
•   Procurement scheduling
•   Material supply and plant hire registers
•   Document distribution and registers
•   Progress claim scheduling
•   Cost management systems (CMS)
•   Site establishment
•   Review of the main contract
•   Articles of the Agreement
•   Insurance
•   Employer’s financial security
•   Carrying out the works
•   Delays in carrying out the works
•   Control of the works
•   Cost variations
•   Payments
•   Termination
•   Warranties
•   Contract schedules and special provisions
•   Edited and bespoke forms of contract
•   Supply Chain Procurement
•   The supply chain
•   Labour-only subcontractors
•   Methods of engagement and reimbursement
•   Contractor’s risk
•   Labour and material subcontractors
•   Domestic subcontractors
•   Named and nominated subcontractors
•   Tender periods and openings
•   Tender comparisons
•   Negotiations
•   Subcontractor insurances
•   Bespoke forms of subcontract agreement
•   Generic forms of subcontract agreement
•   Back-to-back forms of subcontract agreement
•   Material supply scheduling and purchase ordering
•   Bulk ordering
•   Labour hire agreements
•   Plant hire agreements
•   Consultant appointments
•   Running the Project
•   Managing the flow of documents
•   Changes in design and documentation
•   Contractor-generated documents
•   Changes to the works
•   Changes in quantity
•   Changes in quality
•   Changes in sequence of works
•   Variation submissions
•   Reimbursement
•   Client interim payments
•   Subcontractors’ payments
•   Material suppliers and hire company payments
•   Consultants’ payments
•   Cost centres and financial reporting
•   Tracking expenditure
•   Extension of time claims
•   Financial claims
•   Claims under the main contract
•   Claims from the supply chain to the contractor
•   Claims from the contractor to the supply chain
•   Settlement of disputes
•   Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
•   Negotiation
•   Mediation
•   Conciliation
•   Early neutral evaluation
•   Expert determination
•   Adjudication
•   Arbitration
•   Voluntary and involuntary contract terminations
•   Main contract termination
•   Supply chain terminations
•   Project reporting
•   Project Completion
•   Sectional and practical completion
•   Definition and effects of practical completion
•   Final certification
•   Operating manuals and As Built information
•   Defects
•   Patent defects
•   Latent defects
•   Final accounts
•   Main contract final account
•   Issue and effect of the final payment certificate
•   Supply chain final accounts
•   Final project costs
•   Project closure
•   Feedback
•   Archiving and retrieval
•   Further Reading