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Professional Practice: Guideline for Quantity Surveyor Chapter 3
Advantages
Time saving potential in overall project duration
Build ability potential
Breaks down traditional adversarial barriers
Concurrent working is inherent
Late changes easily accommodated
Work packages let competitively
Disadvantages
Needs a good quality brief
Poor certainty of price
Relies on a good quality project team
May become no more than a ‘postbox’ system in certain circumstances
Removes resistance to works contractors’ claims
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