Quantity Surveying Practice
eBook - ePub

Quantity Surveying Practice

The Nuts and Bolts

  1. 166 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Quantity Surveying Practice

The Nuts and Bolts

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Quantity Surveying Practice by Chung Wai Calvin Keung,Kam Lan Daisy Yeung,Sai On Cheung in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Architecture General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Foreword (1)
  9. Foreword (2)
  10. Foreword (3)
  11. Preface
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. Notes to readers
  14. 1 Estimation
  15. 2 Tendering and tender documentation
  16. 3 Tender examination and contract award
  17. 4 Interim valuation and payment
  18. 5 Contractual claims
  19. 6 Cost control and monitoring
  20. 7 Dispute management
  21. References
  22. Index