The FF&E scope identification problem? A land-owners vision for a specific built environment (building) includes its intended use. When...

It's time to reconnect reward to performance A building contract is the Contractor agreeing to deliver a quality-built product on time,...

[1] During six decades of Council work, Michael Arthurs has seen incredible change across Wellington city which he knows like the back of...

We have prepared an Excel formatted table of NZS3910:2013 references to variation clauses. Each is identified with the required Notice...

Mark Nielsen takes The NZBE Mascot Leioproctus Fulvescens around the Komokoriki Hill Road Rallysprint 26 June 2021. Making Leioproctus...

The Library Give Back Project has delivered its first donation of historic costing and pricing texts to Otago Polytechnic International...

Somewhere around the world a Quantity Surveyor is in the News. Good QS news or Bad, we will bring you regular links to their stories....

Manage a mental health moment, take a break, for some light entertainment. (answers below). By Matthew Ensoll Life Member NZIQS. Reg.QS....

The New Zealand Building Economist story began, we believe, in January 1965 with an A5 sized typed publication with a plain light blue...

The High Court of NZ 2018 Dobson J in L&M Coal v Bathurst CIV-2016-485-1007 [2018] NZHC 2127 decide that Bathurst owed L&M Coal US$40...

We are proud to launch a new product utilising our historic database of published building cost information. · Regional House Costs $/m2...

[1] The dark horse of quantity surveying can reduce embodied carbon and cost at the same time. Quantity surveyors know the cost of every...

Material prices are on the rise. Often cited as Covid-19 disruption and freight delays raising freight costs but the truth is demand for...

Manage a mental health moment, take a break, for some light entertainment. (answers below). By Matthew Ensoll Life Member NZIQS. Reg.QS....

Section 21 (3) of the Construction Contracts Act 2002. (3) If the scheduled amount is less than the claimed amount, the payment schedule...

[1] Todd Fleming, a Trainee Quantity Surveyor said: “Hopefully not too long after qualifying I’ll be able to be the lead Quantity...

Late one October 2020 evening, while discussing work war stories (dispute resolution) at a bar, a senior construction executive / QS...

Manage a mental health moment, take a break, for some light entertainment. (answers below). By Matthew Ensoll Life Member NZIQS. Reg.QS....

David L Buckle joined the New Zealand Institute of quantity Surveyors in 1958 and in 2018 enjoyed recognition for his 50 years of...

[1] Big-hearted builders ensure paralysed father of four can return home by finishing vital work for free. The 58-year-old quantity...