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Professional Practice: Guideline for Quantity Surveyor Chapter 2

 Other schedules which are deemed necessary including for engineering

works such as schedule for drainage, reinforcement, mechanical &
electrical fittings and so on.

The architect must make sure that there is no more major design change in
the project brief by the client. Making such changes during this stage will result in
the delay on the overall planning and implementation, increase in project cost

including for professional fees, and might as well cause the cancellation of the
project altogether.
The architect must always communicates with the quantity surveyor during

this stage to make sure all information can be conveyed in full for the purpose of
preparing an accurate bill of quantity, as well as to review and manage the cost
from exceeding the allocated budget by the client.

The QS will inform any apparent discrepancy in elemental cost found to the
architect or engineer to look and review the reasons for the increase in cost. With

the completion of the Technical Design stage, the preparation of bill of quantity
and other related documents in forming the Tender Document could commence.

F) Production Information
Once Building Regulations approval is obtained, a detailed cost estimate is

carried out. Besides that, all documents need to be included in tender document
must be prepared. This includes:-
 All working drawings – Architectural / *structural / services etc.

 All schedules – door / window / drainage / reinforcement etc.
 Specifications – construction methods

Preparation of further information for construction under the building contract
such as Condition of Contract, Form of Tender, etc. also needed. Quantity

Surveyor prepares the Bill of Quantities (BQ) by taking all the material
requirements off the working drawings. This document lists, item by item, all the
materials and components which are required to construct the project.

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