Preparing an interim valuation construction teams can rely on takes more than a site walk and a calculator. This step-by-step guide breaks the process into seven clear stages, with a checklist and process graphic you can use on your next valuation.
Loss and expense claims under JCT reward contractors who follow the process and keep the records to prove it. Here's the clause-by-clause guide to Relevant Matters, notices, substantiation and assessment.
HGCRA payment notices govern who gets paid what, and by when, on every UK construction contract. Miss a deadline and you can end up owing - or losing the right to challenge - the full notified sum.
FIDIC, NEC and JCT solve the same problem - allocating risk and managing change on a construction project - in three very different ways. Here's how to tell them apart and choose the right one.
Defined Cost and Disallowed Cost sit at the heart of every NEC cost-reimbursable contract. Here's how quantity surveyors on both sides of the table assess, audit and dispute them.
Even experienced QS professionals fall into the same five traps. Here's how to spot them before they cost you a project, a client, or your PI excess.
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