QS Articles

The amount of embodied carbon pollution produced during the entire life cycle of constructing a building depends on the design […]

We published this article last week about the increased requirement for modular construction to end the current UK housing crisis. Click […]

If COVID-19 has taught the professional construction estimator anything, it’s the importance of flexibility in scheduling, contingency planning, and having […]

Every industry in the world has been impacted in one way or another by the global pandemic; but very few […]

We have put together a list of the 10 most common reasons why construction tenders are unsuccessful : Human Error […]

Managing subcontractors properly is a particular skill which not all main contractors, project managers and quantity surveyors are capable of […]

Value engineering is used to solve problems and identify and eliminate unwanted costs on a project. It can also improve […]

In construction, we already have many methods of tracking our labour and workforce. Construction sites use timesheets and sign in […]

As construction sites begin to slowly emerge from Lockdown, we look at the five short term outcomes of the COVID-19 […]

Competitive tendering is the most common method of procurement in the construction industry. The supplier or contractor makes a bid […]

Avoiding mistakes in Value Engineering When the time comes to value engineer a project there are mistakes that can be […]

Estimating is one of the grey areas of the Quantity Surveying field, the very best make it seem like a […]