BIM is a process that allows members of the project team to collaborate on the design elements of a 3D […]
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Quantity surveyors are responsible for managing the contractual and financial side of construction projects from early planning drawings through to […]
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Over the course of the past 15 months the UK construction industry has seen a widespread shortage of materials and […]
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Blockchain technology is a revolutionary tool used to record transactions and link them together to form a ‘chain’ that is […]
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Competitive tendering is the most common method of procurement in the construction industry. The supplier or contractor makes a bid […]
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The US construction industry’s future looks bright, and the need for trained construction estimators is increasing. Not only is there […]
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Avoiding mistakes in Value Engineering When the time comes to value engineer a project there are mistakes that can be […]
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The amount of embodied carbon pollution produced during the entire life cycle of constructing a building depends on the design […]
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We published this article last week about the increased requirement for modular construction to end the current UK housing crisis. Click […]
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If COVID-19 has taught the professional construction estimator anything, it’s the importance of flexibility in scheduling, contingency planning, and having […]
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Every industry in the world has been impacted in one way or another by the global pandemic; but very few […]
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We have put together a list of the 10 most common reasons why construction tenders are unsuccessful : Human Error […]
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Managing subcontractors properly is a particular skill which not all main contractors, project managers and quantity surveyors are capable of […]
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Value engineering is used to solve problems and identify and eliminate unwanted costs on a project. It can also improve […]
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In construction, we already have many methods of tracking our labour and workforce. Construction sites use timesheets and sign in […]
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As construction sites begin to slowly emerge from Lockdown, we look at the five short term outcomes of the COVID-19 […]
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Estimating is one of the grey areas of the Quantity Surveying field, the very best make it seem like a […]
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As the news of COVID-19 broke from China in late January, one of the first images broadcast to the world […]
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In the past 50 years the profession has progressed at a rate that would have been unimaginable in 1970. Secretaries […]
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Since the early 19th Century a Bill of Quantities has been a staple of almost every medium-large construction project since. It […]
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A feasibility study is an early stage assessment into the viability of a project to meet the end needs of […]
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As the UK prepares to Brexit on 31st January 2020, there is a substantial question mark over the impact of […]
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A member the general public when faced with paying fees to a construction consultant for their new house or investment […]
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