Quantity Surveying: Practice and Administration

Part 1 - The Practice and Its Environment 1 The Type and structure of the practice 2 The team in action and its backing 3 The quantity surveyor's relationships with the client 4 Relationships within the design and construction team Part 2- The Pre-tender Stage 5 Introductory considerations 6 Procedures for obtaining tenders 7 contract arrangements 8 The function of the bill of quantities 9 The all-in service 10 some principles relevant to pre-tender activity Part 3- The Examination of Tender Stage 11 The examination of tenders based on bills of firm quantities 12 The examination of tenders not based on bills of firm quantities 13 Principles in negotiation 14 Some final pre-contract activities Part 4 - The Post-contract Stage 15 Some general principles 16 Interim valuations and payments 17 Variations and final accounts for contracts based on bills of firm quantities 18 Variations and final accounts for contracts not based on bills of firm quantities 19 Special aspects of final accounts 20 Payment for unexpected loss and expense 21 Damage to the works during construction 22 Insolvency of the contractor and determination of his employment 23 Some preliminary comments on the case studies 24 Case A: A contract completed 25 Case B: A contract interrupted