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
