Description
Book SynopsisQuantity 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 f
Trade Review
"The authors share their hands-on experience in Quantity Surveying (QS) that provide a toolkit for their peers, junior quantity surveyors and QS students. This book is a must read for the pathway to become a chartered quantity surveyor." - Kenneth Tak Wing Yiu, Associate Professor in Quantity Surveying, Massey University, New Zealand
Table of Contents1. Estimation 2. Tendering and Tender Documentation 3. Tender Examination and Contract Award 4. Interim Valuation and Payment 5. Contractual Claims 6. Cost Control and Monitoring 7. Dispute Management
