Quantity Surveying
Preliminaries and General Items in Construction
Updated April 2026 — a complete guide to construction preliminaries for UK quantity surveyors, commercial managers and students. Covers NRM…
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Construction Contracts
Retention in Construction Contracts
Introduction Retention is one of the most familiar — and most contested — mechanisms in UK construction contracts. A percentage…
Commercial Management
Interim Valuations and Application for Payments
Introduction Interim valuations are the engine of construction cash flow. On any project lasting more than a few weeks, the…
Quantity Surveying
Building Regulations and the Quantity Surveyor
Building Regulations sit at the heart of every construction project in England and Wales. They set the minimum standards for…
Quantity Surveying
How to Read Architectural Drawings
Architectural drawings are the primary language of construction. Every building starts as a set of drawings, and the quantity surveyor’s…
Construction Contracts
Construction Law for the Quantity Surveyor
Introduction The quantity surveyor sits at the intersection of three disciplines: construction technology, financial management, and law. Every cost decision…
Digital + Tools
UK Brick Calculator
Brick Calculator — ProQS.site UK Brick Calculator ProQS.site — Quantity Surveying Tools 1 Wall Dimensions Wall Length metres Wall Height…
Tendering & Procurement
Development Appraisal and the Quantity Surveyor
Introduction The Feasibility and Quantity Surveying article introduced the development appraisal as the financial test that determines whether a project…
Measurement & Quantification
Feasibility and Quantity Surveying
Introduction Every construction project begins with a question: is this worth building? Before an architect draws a floor plan, before…
Measurement & Quantification
Article 6: Technology in Estimating
Introduction The previous five articles in this series covered what estimating is, the types of estimates available, how client-side cost…