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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Quantity surveying"”.
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Quantity surveying education and the benchmarking of future needs
… more important. As a vocational subject, the quantity surveying (QS) undergraduate courses delivered in HEIs are designed to prepare students for the world of practice and to deal with emerging challenges (or at least with those intentions). The extent to which graduates from these programmes …
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Satisfaction and service quality in the quantity surveying profession
… client satisfaction and service quality in the quantity surveyingprofession. Whilst many reasons abound for dissatisfaction with the construction industry,this thesis focuses on client satisfaction with the provision of quantity surveyors' services. To this end, a greater understanding of the …
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An Aspirations-led Capabilities Approach to Women’s Career Pathways in Quantity Surveying
… thesis explores the career experiences of female quantity surveyors (QSs) in the UK construction industry and examines how they can pursue their aspirations within the structure and the culture of its organisations. There is a lack of research about the careers of female QSs, although there is a …
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the UK Quantity Surveying Organisation: A Framework for Value Creation.
This thesis delivers a significant contribution to knowledge through the construction of a validated framework, that supports value creation for the QS organisation, when adopting and implementing BIM. It also reports on the current misconceptions in terms of the threat posed by Building …
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Innovation in quantity surveying practice firms : an investigation of innovation response during compressed pre-contract timelines in Nigeria
Reflecting on the pre-contract activities of a quantity surveying (QS) firm, a recent project commission came to focus in which there was an acute shortage of time to produce pre-contract documents due to the compressed pre-contract timeline given by the client. Preliminary investigations reveal …
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Risk management in the cost planning and control of building projects : the case of the quantity surveying profession in Kenya
… cost control of building projects in Kenya. The quantity surveying professional in Kenya is faced with poor access to the recorded cost data needed for preparing final building cost estimates and for budget prediction. This shortcoming is exacerbated by the passive role played by the professional …
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The potential impact of the HE Educational White Paper 2011 on higher education and professional construction education: professional quantity surveying education in England
… within the UK. In particular the provision of quantity surveying education in the English Higher Education sector will be used as an exemplar. The intention of the study is to glean the potential impact and effects on professionally focused education in the 21st Century. There were two prongs …
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A framework to enhance the adoption of building information modelling amongst Sri Lankan quantity surveying organisations to increase the accuracy of pre-tender cost estimates
… overruns. Conventional tasks, such as manual quantity take-off, the use of 2D drawings, and a lack of information that are embedded within the process when preparing cost estimates, were found to be challenging to produce accurate cost estimates. Nevertheless, through the use of Building …
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RICS professional education and training for quantity surveyors and the extent to which it is relevant in the current UK built environment market
Quantity surveying is a profession that plays a major role in the administration and financial management of construction contracts in the current UK built environment market. The level of expertise and competence demonstrated by a practising chartered quantity surveyor has consequences for the …
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An exploration of funds management by emerging contractors
… Built Environment: Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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Evaluation of water resource management systems in eThekwini Municipality
… of Engineering in Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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An appraisal of building information modelling technology in building construction and maintenance in Africa : a case of Nigeria and South Africa
… Management: Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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ACCURACY IN DESIGN STAGE COST ESTIMATING
… as one of the important functions of the quantity surveying profession. Despite this recognised importance, many practicing quantity surveyors are unaware of their own performance as regards to the level of accuracy. The objective of this research is to determine the level of accuracy in …
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Risk management of building project budgets.
… conceptual risk management model, to be used by quantity surveyors, during the establishment of initial budgets for building construction projects.The thesis is introduced with a discussion about the problem and challenge of accurate budgeting in the UK Construction Industry. Literature is then …
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The treatment of uncertainty in construction price modelling
… the price forecast will be more useful to quantity surveyors, architects and clients, as it would 'quantify' the extent of the uncertainty which could be provided for in a more meaningful manner. In order to establish that existing price models do not deal with the uncertainty present at …
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Development of a contextualised understanding of the diffusion of innovation among quantity surveyors in the UK construction industry
… of diffusion of professional practice among quantity surveyors. This is achieved by utilising a particular type of innovation, the New Rules of Measurement, as a vehicle for the analysis. A qualitative research approach that gathers the rich explanatory data is utilised, using semi structured …
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A study of the transfer of tacit knowledge by a monitored tutelage programme for quantity surveyors
… to develop a coaching andmentoring programme for Quantity Surveyors. The literature synthesis includes a discussion oftacit and explicit knowledge and a review of knowledge creation, management and transfer. Itincludes theories of knowledge transfer and a review of concepts involved in mentoring …
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An investigation into the accuracy of pre-tender design price forecasts provided by the quantity surveyor
… accuracy design price forecasts in South Africa, quantity surveyors are unaware of the level of accuracy that they attain. It is proposed that an awareness of their forecasting accuracy.and the factors which affect will contribute towards enhanced performance. By means of an analysis of a sample …
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Leveraging building information modelling to address the barriers that prevent the widespread adoption of life cycle costing by quantity surveyors
… BIM (Cost Modelling) is currently being used in Quantity Surveying (QS) practice, BIM is not extensively used in the application of LCC and there has been little research in this area. This research develops a 5D-LCC solution, where LCC is integrated into the 5D BIM process by embedding an LCC …
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