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The group offers consultancy services including the core services of cost management and quantity surveying, cost engineering, legal support, project management and monitoring, management consultancy, due diligence, research studies, insurance valuations, sustainable construction and capital tax allowances.
NICMAR was founded in 1982 [1] as a result of a joint effort by a group of major construction companies in India headed by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), whose Chairman, Ajit Gulabchand, put forth the idea of setting up an advanced research center in construction management.
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors or CICES is a professional association in the field of civil engineering surveying, headquartered in the United Kingdom. CICES members consist mainly of commercial managers, quantity surveyors , and geospatial engineers working and studying within civil engineering surveying.
Quantity surveying is a profession that deals with the costs and contracts of construction projects. A quantity surveyor is an expert in estimating the costs of materials, labor, and time needed for a project, as well as managing the financial and legal aspects of the project. A quantity surveyor can work for either the client or the contractor ...
Its seventh edition (SMM7) was first published in 1988 and revised in 1998. SMM7 was replaced by the New Rules of Measurement, volume 2 (NRM2), which were published in April 2012 by the RICS Quantity Surveying and Construction Professional Group and became operational on 1 January 2013. [60] NRM2 has been in general use since July 2013.
Mason, a tradesperson skilled variously in brick and blocklaying, concrete finishing (the placement, finishing, protecting and repairing of concrete in construction projects). [7] Also stonemason, marble setter and polisher, tile setter and polisher, terrazzo worker and finisher. Hod carrier is a subsidiary trade (also see Laborer).
A quantity surveyor (QS) is a construction industry professional with expert knowledge on construction costs and contracts.Qualified professional quantity surveyors can be known as Chartered Surveyors (Members and Fellows of RICS) in the UK and Certified Quantity Surveyors (a designation of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors) in Australia and other countries.
The International Cost Engineering Congress (ICEC) was founded in 1976 as a Worldwide Confederation of Cost Engineering, Quantity Surveying and Project Management Societies. In 2006, AACE published the Total Cost Management (TCM) Framework, which outlines an integrated process for applying the skills and knowledge of cost engineering (see ...