Commercial Management in Construction

This handbook covers all the practices and procedures the quantitysurveyor working in a contractor's office needs to know - frombudgets and forecasts to cost-value comparisons and partnering. Bygiving a thorough account of the commercial aspects of the work ofthe contractor's QS, the book offers a useful insight into theirday-to-day work, with plenty of sample documents, worked examplesand extracts from the standard contracts.

This is a practical manual but it also helps develop anunderstanding of the theory underpinning current practice. As theQS role becomes more complex, commercial managers wanting tomaximise profitability will find the sound advice given hereinvaluable as it:

? demonstrates tried-and-tested best practice through practicalexamples
? provides a good grounding in financial management and costanalysis
? describes the need for benchmarking, the benefits of settingtargets and the use of key performance indicators (KPI's) as ameans of increasing project and company performance
? highlights the benefits of teamworking.