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Professional Practice: Guideline for Quantity Surveyor Chapter 2

procedures, organizational structure and range of consultants and others to be
engaged for the project should be discusses.

C) Concept
It is an architech sketching in general which is consist of lay out, design and also

construction. All client needs including the law and regulation will be taken as a
guidance in preparing the outline proposal.

Sufficient information is important to prepare a complete Concept that fullfill the
client requirements. Information gathered from project brief, feasibility study, and
the data from site survey and site investigation is use to prepare the Concept

Stages.
The design team also need other related imformation such as material

specification, air conditioning,electrical system, transportation fasility, lif, fire
alarm system, water springkler, smoke detector, safety aids, safety access ,
rubbish disposal and etc. The law and regulation such as Building by Law, and

Local Authority regulation must be follow to avoid problem such as getting
approval at other stages.
Engineering work such as site survey, soil investigation, structure study,

and also the study on building services should be carried at this stage to be used
by the architech. The site will be survey to locate the boarders and contour line.
Engineer will identify the obstacle or problem at the site. Usually the

problemcome from from underground cabelling, and servives pipe. Land survey
also involve in this stage especially for large area.

In soil investigation, the strength and nature or characteristic of soil will be
identify to design the foundation. From above information, the engineer will come
out with several proposal to the architech. The best choices will be select to be

use in the next stage.
QS is the financial advisor to the client. He will working together with the

architech in preparing the outline proposal so that the cost will always in control.
Cost estimate is prepare base on the information from architech drawing and will
be foward to the client accordingly.
The best way to estimate is using floor area, cubic or unit assesement

then multiply to cost of 1 unit. The cost of 1 unit is obtained from previous project
(similar work and condition).

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