{ "item_title" : "The Quantity Surveyor's Toolkit", "item_author" : [" Steven Smith "], "item_description" : "Build the technical, commercial, and professional capabilities required of the modern quantity surveyor.Quantity surveying continues to evolve alongside new procurement practices, digital technologies, sustainability requirements, and increasingly complex construction projects. While measurement and cost management remain fundamental, today's quantity surveyor also requires competence in contracts, communication, negotiation, project management, ethical decision-making, and emerging digital practices.The Quantity Surveyor's Toolkit: Essential Skills for the Modern Construction Industry brings these capabilities together in a practical guide designed to strengthen the knowledge and skills required for contemporary quantity surveying practice.The central question is: What combination of technical, commercial, digital, and professional skills does a quantity surveyor need to operate effectively in the modern construction industry?BUILDING THE MODERN QUANTITY SURVEYOR'S TOOLKITThis book explores: - Measurement techniques: Strengthen your understanding of measuring and quantifying construction work as a foundation for effective cost management.- Cost estimating: Explore the principles and practices involved in developing reliable construction cost estimates.- Contract management: Understand contractual responsibilities and their relationship to effective commercial and project management.- Project management: Examine how quantity surveying knowledge contributes to the wider planning, coordination, and management of construction projects.- Building Information Modeling: Consider the growing influence of BIM and digital processes on contemporary quantity surveying practice.- Sustainable construction: Understand how changing sustainability priorities are influencing construction and professional decision-making.- Communication and negotiation: Develop essential interpersonal capabilities for working with clients, consultants, contractors, and other project stakeholders.- Ethical decision-making: Explore the importance of professional judgement, integrity, and responsible decision-making in quantity surveying practice.- Case-based application: Connect key principles with practical project situations and professional challenges.MODERN QUANTITY SURVEYING EXTENDS BEYOND MEASUREMENTThe value of a quantity surveyor is not determined by technical knowledge alone. Effective practice requires the ability to interpret project information, understand costs and contracts, communicate professional advice, negotiate effectively, respond to technological change, and make sound commercial and ethical decisions.This book connects these capabilities within a single professional framework, helping readers understand not only the individual tools of quantity surveying but how those tools contribute to effective construction project delivery.WHO THIS BOOK IS FORQuantity surveyors, aspiring and early-career quantity surveyors, construction cost professionals, built-environment practitioners, quantity surveying and construction students, academics, and professionals seeking to strengthen their commercial and professional capabilities.A strong quantity surveyor's toolkit combines measurement and cost expertise with contractual understanding, digital capability, professional judgement, communication, and the ability to adapt to a changing construction industry.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/833/455/9798334559493_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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