Quantity Surveying Practice: The Nuts and Bolts is a practical guide
to quantity surveying in building construction. Due to the increasing
expectations of quality and performance from project clients, quantity
surveyors must improve their professional skills to solve a variety of
intricate problems and disputes confronting the demanding construction
market. This practical book focuses on the basic concepts underlying the
technical aspects of quantity surveying and contains many worked
examples together with useful figures and real-life cases to help
readers digest and understand the essentials and become better
professionals as a result.
This book is organised and structured into seven chapters. Chapter 1 is
about the estimation of construction costs. Chapter 2 gives an overview
of tendering and tender documentation. Chapter 3 examines the procedure
of tender examination and the approach to contract award. Chapter 4
reviews the whole process of an interim valuation from the submission of
a payment application by the contractor to the issuance of an interim
valuation by the quantity surveyor, identifying the key issues within
the process. Chapter 5 examines the topic of construction claims.
Chapter 6 addresses the cost control and monitoring in connection with
construction projects. Chapter 7 is about dispute management and three
commonly used dispute resolution mechanisms, namely mediation,
adjudication and arbitration are introduced.
This book is essential reading for students on quantity surveying and
construction management programmes, as well as the APC candidates
pursuing the professional quantity surveying pathway. It is also a
useful reference for practicing quantity surveyors.
