Head Contractor WDR excludes Subcontractor Time-related Costs
It is time to dispel the myth some Principal representatives have asserted, in recent times, that the Head Contractor Working Day Rate...
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Construction Labour Cost Guide
The New Zealand Building Economist is proud to announce the launch of its Construction Labour Cost Guide. A guide to Labour Costs,...
The Sesame Street 3910 Variation Rule Book
[2] Timely reciprocity of information, not timeout rules, shortens agreement time-frames. There is an industry tendency to never call...
'Project Specific' Overhead Recovery
NZS3910 misrepresents Overheads as ON SITE, or OFF SITE... Our definitions are clear, but our terminology is misleading. The NZS3910...
Accurate Payment Claims need Timely Payment Schedules
There is nothing in NZS3910, SA2017 or the CCA that requires us to calculate our claims on a “value to date basis”, less a previous value...
The NZ Building Economist
- Nov 1, 2022
Conditions of Tendering, the Rules for winning work
Ultimately, only one party can win a tender. How we go from everyone, to just one? is a very important question. The Australian Code of...
The NZ Building Economist
- Oct 5, 2022
One Notice Will Do, for “Extension of Time Variations” NZS3910
Have you been awarded an extension of time for a variation but denied the money for the variation and its time related costs for lack of...
The NZ Building Economist
- Aug 28, 2022
The Universal Overhead and Profit Recovery Formula (For Head & Sub Contractors Equitable Recovery)
NZS3910:2013 does not prescribe how to calculate a Working Day Rate but it does guide you to include 'Time related costs', and as you...
The NZ Building Economist
- Aug 7, 2022
Residential War Stories – Dig Deeper, into Customer Concern!
“We have got you a consent based on the building we have priced. But your site has unsuitable material below the hard-fill line and there...
The NZ Building Economist
- Jun 25, 2022
Teamwork Leadership, starts with YOU
We are all Leaders We are all leaders. We start by leading ourselves with challenges that make us learn and perform better. Then we lead...
The NZ Building Economist
- Apr 10, 2022
Getting to the Entitlement Point, is what really Matters
Qualifying circumstances must always be treated as a variation. It is a choice to argue badly as a tactic to distract, confuse, delay,...
The NZ Building Economist
- Feb 7, 2022
The Birth of Retentions 1840
The Rise of Industrialisation and Transportation The 19th century saw the age of trains rise to dominate commercial transportation. The...
The NZ Building Economist
- Jan 30, 2022
Off Site Materials, Payment Terms and Risks
In these supply shortage, inflationary times, we order everything we can early, to secure the programme and the budget. But price and...
The NZ Building Economist
- Jan 23, 2022
Quantity Surveyor in the news January 2022
[1] Temuka's Courthouse Museum restoration project. In March 2020, the estimation to earthquake strengthen the 120-year-old building...
The NZ Building Economist
- Jan 11, 2022
Good decision making, returning the serve in Court
Novak Djokovic is courageous for standing up for his right to choose not to be vaccinated and for defending himself when the Border...
The NZ Building Economist
- Dec 19, 2021
New Zealand Christmas 2021, but in Portugal…
It’s nearly Christmas 2021, but a year ago, on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula, there is a factory manufacturing product for New...
The NZ Building Economist
- Dec 12, 2021
The Engineer and Natural Justice
What is natural justice? The words “natural justice” have specific meaning in the law. Natural justice comprises two rules, the rule...
The NZ Building Economist
- Dec 5, 2021
Quantity Surveyor in the News Nov 2021
[1] Woman in Auckland awarded $25,000 after boss calls her 'f***ing hopeless'. [NZ] The Employment Relations Authority has ruled in...
The NZ Building Economist
- Nov 28, 2021
The Principles of Valuation NZS3910:2013
Here we explore [1] Valuing Variation, [2] Valuing Other Matters, and [3] the Principles of Valuation, to be applied to everything being...
The NZ Building Economist
- Nov 21, 2021
Subcontractor Extension of Time Dis-entitlement, No harm no foul
Three infill units, Auckland's North Shore 2021 There was a time when subcontractors were never allowed to be late. It was a time when,...
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