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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'.
Table 5.4: Advantages and Disadvantages of Schedule of Rate
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