Course Details

1. Describe the roles and duties of members of the construction Team
2. Describe the role of a Quantity Surveyor, his duties and his contribution
3. Explain the preparation of Bills of Quantities, their content and functions
4. Outline modern approaches on Project Estimating, Management of Changes, Cost Control and Value for Money
5. List the various standard forms of contract and procedures employed in practice

Introduction
·  Understand the basics of Quantity Surveying.
·  Define Quantity Surveying.
·  Describe the building team members and their roles.

Tendering Procedures
·  Understand the role of a Quantity Surveyor at different stages of a project and the services that can be provided such as preliminary cost advice, cost planning, contractual methods, tendering, choice of contactor and validation of construction work
·  Explain tendering procedures and their aim and outline the qualities of the selected contractor.
·  Understand principal methods of tendering (open and selective tendering and negotiated contracts) and their advantages and disadvantages.

Methods of Measurement and Bill Preparation
·  Define Bills of Quantities, the main types available (trade bills and elemental bills) and their advantages and disadvantages.
·  Understand methods of Measurement or Taking Off, such as the trade method and group method.
·  Practice methods of preparing Bills of Quantities
·  Apply general principles for inserting dimensions and writing descriptions.

Standard Forms of Contract
·  Examine the standard forms of contracts between contractors and clients and contractors with sub-contractors.
Understand the rights and obligations of each party involved.

Contract Administration
·  Describe contract administration.
·  Describe and explain the theories and strategies for contract management forms of correspondence and contract accounting.
Analyse liability in contract and tort, financial remedies for breach of contract suspension and determination of contracts.

Claims
·  Evaluate contractor’s claims for loss and expense. Evaluate claims by the client.

• Pre-Contract Practice for the Building Team, The Aqua Group
• Tenders and Contracts for Building, The Aqua Group
• Contract Administration for the Building Team, The Aqua Group

• Contract Practice for Quantity Surveyors, J.W.Ramus
• Contract Practice for Quantity Surveyors, Ramus/Birchall/Griffiths
• Practice and Procedure for the Quantity Surveyors, Willis/Ashworth