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What is a QS

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Quantity surveyor

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What do QS do?

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Evaluate how much a building may cost

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What does the RIBA stand for

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Royal Institute of British Architects

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What does the RIBA plan to organise?

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The process of briefing, designing, constructing and operating building projects into eight stages and explains stage outcomes

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How many stages are there in the RIBA

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8 stages

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In the RIBA what will stages 0-4 generally happen

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They will be undertaken one after the other

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What will stages 4 and 5 be like

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They will overlap in the project programme for most projects

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What will stages 5 be like

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Commences when the contractor takes possessions of the site and finishes at practical completion

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Stage 6

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  • Starts with the handover of the building to the client - -immediately after practical completion and finishes at the end of the defects liability period
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Stage 7

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Starts concurrently with stage 6 and last for the life of the building

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What’s re the different types of contracting

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  1. There is the general contracting/ traditional approach and
  2. there is the “design and build” approach and there is the
  3. “Construction management” approach
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What is meant by the design and build approach

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Where the contractor is responsible for both

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What is meant by the traditional approach

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Contractor build only

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What is meant by construction management approach

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Contractor is just a manager

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When is it suitable to have a design and build approach

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  • project that a contractor can complete with no major risk
  • project where a contractor has special expertise
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When is it suitable to have the traditional approach/ general contracting

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  • the employer wants to control the design
  • there are major risks and it would be unfair for the contractor to take them on (e.g. refuse of an existing building)
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When is it suitable to have the construction management approach

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When a developer wants some works to start early, before others are even designed

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What is an exemplar elf intergrated supply chain

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Watroise having there own farms, or Claire gardens supplying there own wood clippings

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What is the positive of having intergrated supply chain

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They have complete control over everything

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What is supply chain with patterning relationships

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  • developer then the rest are all kinda interlinked
  • some of Uk main contractors do it like this
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What is Fragmented supply chain

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  • all separate businesses
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Example of fragmented supply chain

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Builders renovating houses

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How does a developer select a contractor

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  • open tendering
    -selective tendering
    -two stage tendering
    -negotiation
    -framework agreement
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In the UK how normally does a developer select a contractor

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Selective tendering

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What is selective tendering
10 contractors, sometimes have a pre qualification stage
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When is cost advice needed in a development project
Throughout the whole process rather than just having a surprise
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What are the challenges facing the built environment
- increased urbanisation -degradation of natural resources
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What is some examples of environmental impacts of buildings:
- energy use -green house gas emissions -construction/ demolition waste -potable water -raw materials -pollution -ecology -transport -health and well-being -land use
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Definition of sustainability
- is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
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What is sustainable development
-sustainable development is all about ensuring a better quality of life for everyone now and for the generations to come
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Sustainable development embraces the three broad themes- what are these themes?
Environmental, social and economic accountability Often known as the “triple bottom line”
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Pre design sustainability principles: business planning- what does it mean?
The need for a new building as opposed to doing nothing , refurbishment or changes in working practices
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What is done in the selection of consultants in terms of pre design sustainibility principles
- contractual requirements in relation to the selection of materials, monitoring and reporting, track record, enviromental accreditation and qualifications of staff
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What happens in the selection of location in terms of pre design sustainability principles
- availability of transport - selection of greenfield or brownfield site - the local avalilibility of resources and services - the local infrastructure and local ecology
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What are assessment tools
- techniques that predicts, calculates or estimates one or more enviromental performances characteristics of a product or building
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Sustainability assesment tools:what tools should be chosen for?
- the quality of insight and feedback they provide to inform briefing and design in the early stages - expectations management as a project proceeds
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When are BREEAM assessments carried out
They are carried out by trained assessors based on a scoring system with nine criteria
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What is the number of criteria that is needed fro BREEAM
Nine criteria
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How many dimensions of project management are there
Three
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What are the three dimensions of project management control
Time, cost and quality
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The triangle or three dimensions of project management also sometimes known as
The iron triangle
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What are other factors that could also be out into the iron triangle/ three dimensions
- environmental factors - social factors -health and safety/ cannot be something that can be compromised so arguably shouldn’t be in the iron triangle
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Example of some aspects of being a projecty manager
- project team management -project time management -project cost management -project cost quality management -risk management -stakeholder management
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Example of some of the people that are involved in construction projects
- client -project manager -design manager -architect -engineers (structural, mechanical and electrical) - QS -contractor -digital/bim engineer
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Difference between construction management than ordinary management
- crew of strangers - little time to adjust to co- workers - tricky to motivate people when the end of the project is in sight - the individual needs are hard to handle in large projects
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Who developed the Gantt chart
Henry Gantt
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What does a Gantt chart consist of
Consists of time scale, activities (tasks) and the duration of activities (start to finish date)
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What do linked bar charts look like
- shows the activities in timescale with bar chart -uses vertical links between bars to show all sequiential relationships between activities
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What are contractors main expenses- with direct costs
Direct costs include: - labour -materials -equipment -subcontractors -other coasts (gov permit and dees, lawyers and consultants for specific task in a project)
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What are contractors main expenses- indirect costs
- project overheard such as project staff, cars assigned to the project team, office equipment, temporary utilities - general overhead such as main office expenses, main office personnel, main office equipment and vehicles, main office services, advertising, charting contributions -contingency fees
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Definition of project cash flow
The net difference between the construction expenditure and income relating to the project at any point in tine during construction
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Is cash flow different to profit
Yes
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Why is cash flow considered a valuable concept
Because it enables us to look at the financing of a project in a more sophisticated way than merely considering lump sum totals of expenditure and receipts
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What is positive cash flow
When money is received into an organisation
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What is negative cash flow
When money is paid out
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What is the essence of cash flow
To ensure that a company is not exposed to excessive negative cash flow

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