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FIVE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD CONSULT A QUANTITY SURVEYOR
A Quantity Surveyor (QS) is a professional
working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and
contract Administration.
Services provided by a Quantity Surveyor include: Construction
cost estimating and budgeting, Cost planning and commercial management during
the entire life cycle of the project from inception to completion. Others include,
procurement advice, procurement management, project management, Value
engineering etc.
You need to consult a Quantity Surveyor for one of the following
reasons;
1. IGNORANCE
IS DANGEROUS: It
is of utmost Importance and even stressed by The Lord Jesus Christ in the bible
that; before you embark on a construction project, you must count it cost to
know if you have enough money to complete it. The fact that you have N10,
000,000.00 in your account and can have a reliable monthly income is not enough
to embark on just any size or quality of building that you deem fit or as
designed by an Architect or even a local Draftsman. Common planning courtesy
requires that you think of how much can transform the Architect’s imaginations
into habitable reality. The Quantity Surveyor is your best man in doing this.
2. YOU
DON’T HAVE ETERNITY:
Time, time and time is one of the most important gift of life but as important
as it is, nobody has enough of it to remain young, remain in that financially
rewarding position or even to live on earth, therefore, when embarking on a
construction project like building your dream house, you must find out from a qualified
Quantity Surveyor how much it will cost you. A qualified Quantity surveyor can
also project how long it will take to complete the project according to
availability of cash (cash flow) to execute the project.
Is it not better to build an affordable
Semi-Detached three bedroom flat in record time and enjoy it for a lifetime than
struggle to erect a luxurious duplex beyond your budget through your life time
which might end up only being your grave yard.
3. YOU
NEED TO BE GUIDED:
When you get estimate from “Baba Iju and sons” builders as contractors also,
its simply becomes a case of one man being the judge and the jury. More importantly,
you cannot have template designed in such a way as to be able to quickly
reflect the financial implications of designs or specifications variations
which might be necessary during the course of the project. A Bill of Quantities
which is the primary document a professional and competent Quantity Surveyor
will produce from his estimating and budgeting exercise can be quickly adjusted
to reflect how much the change of ordinary cement/sand screed on floors to
tiles will add to your overall expenses and therefore advice you properly based
on predetermined probable final cost of the project planned within your income.
4. YOUR
BUILDING SHOULDN’T BECOME A HOME FOR REPTILES: A quick stroll around cities in
the country today, you will find so many uncompleted and abandoned buildings,
either due to insufficient funds or contractual disputes.
If every building or construction
projects in general will pass through the hand of qualified professionals not
leaving out the Quantity Surveyor for any reason, he can always employ his training
on contractual disputes at the pre-contract stage in offering the right advice
and eliminating all clauses that can bring disputes while inputting clauses that
will protect all parties involved. This, he usually does in the session called;
“conditions of contract” in the tender
documents.
5. PENNY
WISE POUNDS FOOLISH:
Many Clients would consider the professional fees charged by a Quantity
Surveyor on their project as extra expenses they can’t bear and would rather
just go ahead with other unprofessional and unreliable alternatives. Well, the
result of such irrational decisions results in abandoned projects, contractual
disputes that gulp far above the sum a
Quantity Surveyor could have been paid, lack of historical data to guide in
future developmental projects and even over bloated cost due to uninformed
design or specification decisions.
To be continued …
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