QS and construction standards
The RICS QS and Construction Standards provide a definitive set of best practice professional guidance and information for all surveying professionals involved in construction.
Part of a suite of guidance, the publications aim to provide greater consistency in surveying processes and to allow the benchmarking of services when employing other professionals. The guidance covers core construction activities such as procurement, tendering, contract selection and procedures and post-contract control.
- Full list of QS and Construction Standards+
- Acceleration
- Appropriate contract selection
- Ascertaining loss and expense
- Capital allowances and land remediation relief
- Cash flow forecasting
- Commercial management of construction
- Conflict avoidance and dispute resolution in construction
- Construction insurance
- Construction sectors and roles for chartered quantity surveyors
- Construction security and performance documents
- Cost analysis and benchmarking
- Cost reporting
- Damages for delay to completion
- Defects and rectifications
- Defining completion of construction works
- Developing a construction procurement strategy and selecting an appropriate route
- E-tendering
- Electronic document management
- Employer's agent: design and build
- Extensions of time
- Final account procedures
- Interim valuations and payment
- Lender's independent monitoring surveyor
- Life cycle costing
- Management of risk
- Methodology to calculate embodied carbon
- Retention
- Tendering strategies
- Termination of contract, corporate recovery and insolvency
- Value management and value engineering
- Valuing change