Consultant Quantity Surveyor: What you need to know about Hiring a Quantity Surveyor?
The cost consultant is also referred to as a consultant quantity surveyor (QS) helps one with the cost, measurements and contracts of the construction projects. The consultant employs various methods like cost planning, value management, value engineering, cost-benefit analysis, feasibility studies, tendering, valuation and much more. Some of the consultant quantity surveyors can assist one to perform various other tasks too.
Quantity surveyors remain in high demand in the UK. But how can anyone benefit by hiring a quantity surveyors? A consultant QS can help guide one’s team towards an affordable design prior to selection of the most suitable method for appointing a contractor. The QS would negotiate with the contractor for finding out the amount of the money due at various times of the project.
It is the job of the QS that one is not unnecessarily exposed to financial risks associated with the project. This would require the QS to have conversations of finance with the contractor as well as the designer. In most cases, the quantity surveyors would function as excellent project managers due to the great overlap between the responsibilities of the two roles.
Need for a consultant quantity surveyor
One can employ a quantity surveyor from the beginning of the project so that he or she can work with the designer to come up with the layout and specifications that would be within the financial means of the client.
The quantity surveyor would analyse and provide you with an advice on the most suitable procurement process. They would also explain the best contract that can secure the client. The consultant quality surveyor partners with the designer for steering the project towards success.
Saving money:The QS ensures that clients can save their money. This can be achieved by the use of the experience and knowledge for ensuring that the client does not get overcharged for the project. This would involve negotiation of cost plan with the contractor while using proactive approach for assessing the Design and build proposition.
You can know more about the different advantages your project can gain by hiring the consultant quantity surveyor by visiting PEJA Surveying Limited.
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Published August 9, 2018August 9, 2018
Originally published at quantitysuveying.wordpress.com on August 9, 2018.