Contractor tender evaluation is where a paper exercise becomes a real construction contract. This guide walks employer's agents and client-side QSs through weighting, compliance checks, scoring and debriefs.
Mediation is a voluntary, confidential way to resolve a construction dispute without a decision being imposed on either side. Here's how the process works, when it suits a live dispute, and how it compares with adjudication and arbitration.
Learn the seven sections every UK commercial report needs, the writing habits that build trust with senior stakeholders, and a full worked example you can copy for your next report.
RICS competencies sit at the heart of the APC, covering mandatory professional skills, core and optional technical competencies, and three levels of attainment. Here's exactly what quantity surveyors and commercial managers need to know before they submit.
Traditional, design and build, management contracting, construction management, two-stage tendering or a framework - which construction procurement route actually fits your project? This guide compares risk, speed and cost certainty across all six.
Management contracting and construction management both let work start before design is finished, but they allocate risk and contracts in almost opposite ways. Here's how to tell them apart and when to use each.
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