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Professional Practice: Guideline for Quantity Surveyor                                                     Chapter 5


                            to scope and contractual commit      load costs in case later work does

                            ment.                                not materialise.
                            As  a  fully-detailed  design is  not   There   is   no   real   incentive
                            required           the client can    for contractors to             treat

                            obtain tenders at   the    early     such work with any sense of urgency
                            stages      of      a project and    and  its  best  staff  will  be  placed  on
                            begin construction before comple     the projects where  the contractor is

                            tion of  the design.  So  to  this   carrying more risk.
                            extent it is 'fast track'.




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