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Contents

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Preface  vii

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1 The Construction Industry and the Quantity Surveyor  1

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1.1 ­Industry Overview  1
1.2 ­Parties Involved in a Construction Project  4
1.3 ­Legislation and Control of the Building Process  15
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1.4 ­Industrial Bodies  20
1.5 ­Funding and Market Drivers  24
1.6 ­Economic and Construction Cycles  25
1.7 ­Development of Quantity Surveying  26
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1.8 ­Construction Innovation and the Contractor’s Quantity Surveyor  28

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1.9 ­Prospects for the Contractor’s Quantity Surveyor  36

2 Measurement and Quantities  41
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2.1 ­Measurement Guides and Coverage Rules  41

2.2 ­RICS New Rules of Measurement (NRM)  42
2.3 ­Other Measurement Guides  44
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2.4 ­Arrangement of Project Information  45

2.5 ­Measurement Terminology  50
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2.6 ­Measurement Example  55

2.7 ­Builder’s Quantities  57
2.8 ­Software Systems  72
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2.9 ­Alternative Bills of Quantities  73

3 Working with the Main Contractor  77

3.1 ­Contracting Organisations  77
3.2 ­Management Systems  83
3.3 ­Marketing for Contracts  87
3.4 ­Procurement  89
3.5 ­Estimating and the Contractor’s Quantity Surveyor  111
3.6 ­Construction Contracts  149
3.7 ­Remedies for Breach of Contract  165

4 Project Commencement  175

4.1 ­The Project Team  175
4.2 ­Pre‐Construction Handover  177
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4.3 ­Office and Site‐Based Roles  178

4.4 ­Construction Programme  179
4.5 ­Project Administration  184
4.6 ­Site Establishment  205
4.7 ­Review of the Main Contract  209

5 Supply Chain Procurement  243

5.1 ­The Supply Chain  243
5.2 ­Labour‐Only Subcontractors  245
5.3 ­Labour and Material Subcontractors  248
5.4 ­Material Supply Scheduling and Purchase Ordering  267
5.5 ­Labour Hire Agreements  272
5.6 ­Plant Hire Agreements  274
5.7 ­Consultant Appointments  275

6 Running the Project  279

6.1 ­Document Control  279
6.2 ­Changes to the Works  283
6.3 ­Reimbursement  292
6.4 ­Cost Centres and Financial Reporting  309
6.5 ­Tracking Expenditure  310
6.6 ­Extension of Time (EOT) Claims  314
6.7 ­Financial Claims  318
6.8 ­Voluntary and Involuntary Contract Terminations  328
6.9 ­Project Reporting  336

7 Project Completion  339

7.1 ­Sectional and Practical Completion  339
7.2 ­Operating Manuals and As‐Built Information  342
7.3 ­Defects  345
7.4 ­Final Accounts  347
7.5 ­Project Closure  355

Further Reading  359

Index  361