How much are you throwing away by not pursuing claims you’re entitled to? It goes without saying that a builder has to carry out the works in accordance with the relevant standards and legislation. These legislative requirements (as I’ll refer…
Interviewee: Chris Hodges How do you become a delay or quantum expert? Is it a direct route? For Perth Regional Partner Chris Hodges, it “never was a career goal from from the outset” and it was through different experiences that…
Some years back, I was given an opportunity to provide a concise argument in favour or against a lump sum contract, specifically the FIDIC Silver Book. The argument I was asked to tackle hinged around the employer’s ability to instruct…
Most construction projects have one thing in common and despite our best efforts to try and avoid it, projects are still haunted by it. As project manager I spent a lot of my time trying not only to avoid it…
Aside from usually being a precondition to any extension of time (EOT), a notice of delay is often helpful in resolving disputes early on. Construction contracts deal primarily with three things – costs, time and risk allocation. It’s pretty obvious…
Making sure that entitlements for delay claims and changes are protected is the life blood of any contractor. The risk here is existential to the organisation and many contractors have gone bankrupt because they failed to manage their changes properly.…
Construction schedule analytics provides many more benefits than risk mitigation. At a high-level, schedule analytics software can analyse the data from firms’ construction schedules to determine which tasks may be done simultaneously and which tasks must be completed sequentially, identifying…
As resilient as quantity surveyors have proved to be over the years, there is little doubt that many practices, both large and small, have perished because they failed to adapt to change. Very often new innovation involves change, either in…
As resilient as quantity surveyors have proved to be over the years, there is little doubt that many practices, both large and small, have perished because they failed to adapt to change. Very often new innovation involves change, either in…
What influences someone to become a Quantity Surveyor? The answer could be family influence via a parent who is a Quantity Surveyor or possibly an industrial professional who has an entrusted role to provide career advice. Or it might be…