Last edited 16 Oct 2020
Commercial management and quantity surveying course essentials
For students of Commercial Management and/or Quantity Surveying, the following information, divided into the module subjects you are likely to study as part of the course, is available on our site.
This is part of Student resources.
[edit] Construction and commercial management
- Approximate bill of quantities.
- Approximate quantities cost plan.
- Bill of quantities
- CDM planning period
- Commercial management
- Common Arrangement of Work Sections(CAWS).
- Computers in the management of construction
- Construction manager
- Construction management: outline work plan.
- Construction progress meeting.
- Construction progress report
- Cost control in building design and construction.
- Cost plans.
- Delays on construction projects
- Design coordination
- Design management
- Elemental cost plan.
- Firm bill of quantities.
- Key performance indicators KPI
- Leadership styles
- Management contractor
- Measurement.
- Named sub-contractor
- Named supplier in construction contracts
- New Rules of Measurement.
- NRM2.
- NRM3.
- Outturn cost.
- Payment notice for construction contracts.
- Pre-contract meeting for construction contracts
- Preliminaries.
- Prime cost sums
- Programme for building design and construction
- Project manager's report for building design and construction
- Project team for building design and construction
- Provisional sums.
- Quality in construction projects
- Schedule of work for construction
- Scope of work.
- Sectional completion in construction contracts
- Site manager for construction sites
- Standard Method of Measurement (SMM7).
- Sub-contractor
- Supply chain management in construction
- Taking off.
- Tender.
- Tender documentation.
- Tender pricing document.
[edit] Building materials
[edit] Principles of design and construction
[edit] Building environmental science
[edit] Economics
- Balance sheet
- Business case for construction projects
- Business models in construction
- Business rates
- Capital allowances for construction
- Capital gains tax
- Cash flow in construction
- Cash flow projection
- Construction VAT
- Contract sum analysis
- Defined cost
- Depreciation
- Fee proposal
- Final account
- Inflation
- Land value
- Landfill tax
- Market segmentation in the construction industry
- Marketing audits in the construction industry
- Net Present Value
- Pay as you earn in construction PAYE
- Private finance initiative
- Profitability
- Profits method of rating valuation
- Rate relief schemes for small business
- Rating valuation
- Record keeping
- Research and development tax relief
- Small and medium-sized enterprises SME
- Stamp duty land tax SDLT
- Tax relief
- Taxation in building design and construction
- VAT - Option to tax
- Working capital
- What is a mortgage?
[edit] Construction organisation and strategy
[edit] Principles of law
- Adjudication
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Arbitration Act
- Arbitration in the construction industry
- Civil procedure rules
- Conciliation in construction disputes
- Construction contract
- Construction litigation
- Contract vs tort
- Contracts under seal v under hand
- Court settlement process
- Damages in construction contracts
- Definition of collateral warranty
- Deed of easement
- Dilapidations protocol
- Dispute resolution boards
- Duty of care in building design and construction
- Duty to warn in construction
- Easements
- Equality Act
- Essentials of a contract
- Express and implied terms in construction contracts
- Freehold
- Force majeure in construction
- Guarantees
- Joint and several liability in building design and construction contracts
- Land law
- Land register
- Leasehold
- Leasehold covenants
- Legal and equitable assignment
- Legislation and standards
- Mediation in construction
- Negligence
- Novus actus interveniens
- Nuisance
- Ombudsman
- Planning court
- Provisional relief
- Restrictive covenant
- The role of the mediator
- Trespass
- United Kingdom
[edit] Building services technology
[edit] Site surveying
[edit] Methods of measurement
- BCIS elements.
- Bill of quantities.
- Code of measuring practice.
- Common Arrangement of Work Sections(CAWS).
- Comparison of SMM7 with NRM2.
- Floor area ratio
- Gross external area.
- Gross internal area.
- Measurement
- Net internal area.
- New Rules of Measurement.
- NRM 1.
- NRM 2.
- NRM 3.
- Standard Method of Measurement SMM7.
- Taking off.
[edit] Procurement and contract administration
- Assignment of construction contracts
- Attendance for construction
- Attestation in construction
- Back to back provisions in construction contracts
- Base date in construction contracts
- Bonds in construction contracts
- Bonds v guarantees
- Collateral warranties for building design and construction
- Construction contract conditions
- Construction contract particulars
- Construction work packaging
- Contract administrator for construction contracts
- Contract award
- Contract claims in construction
- Contract documents for construction
- Contract execution
- Contract sum analysis
- Contract terms for construction contracts
- Contractor's design portion
- Contractor's master programme
- Cost reimbursable contract
- Defects liability period DLP
- Design and build: outline work plan
- Design and build procurement route
- Disallowed cost
- E-procurement
- Earned value for construction contracts
- Employer's requirements for building design and construction
- End of stage report for construction
- Escrow
- Final account
- Final certificate for construction contracts
- Fluctuations in construction contracts
- Form of tender
- Framework contract
- Guarantees
- Indemnity clauses in design and construction contracts
- Invitation to tender for construction contracts
- Joint and several liability in building design and construction contracts
- Lump sum contract
- Management contract: outline work plan
- Measured term contract
- Measurement contract
- Modifying clauses in standard forms of construction contract
- Named specialist work
- Named sub-contractor
- Named supplier in construction contracts
- Negotiated contract
- Negotiated tendering
- Open tendering of construction works
- Performance specified work in construction contracts
- Prime contract
- Prime cost contract
- Prime cost sum
- Private finance initiative
- Privity of contract
- Procurement route
- Procurement route options pros and cons
- Public procurement
- Public project: outline work plan
- Retention in construction contracts
- Retention of title in construction
- Sectional completion in construction contracts
- Set off in construction contracts
- Shadow tender
- Single-stage tender
- Target contract
- Target cost for construction
- Tender documentation for construction projects
- Tender evaluation
- Tender for supply contracts
- Tender negotiations
- Tender pricing document
- Tender processes for construction contracts
- Tender report for construction contracts
- Tender sum for construction contracts
- Traditional contract: outline work plan
- Two-stage tender
- Z clauses
[edit] Health and safety
[edit] Geotechnical engineering
[edit] Civil engineering technology
[edit] Contractor's estimating and planning
- Approximate quantities cost plan.
- Architect's instruction
- BCIS.
- BCIS elements.
- Bills of quantities.
- Completion of construction contracts
- Construction contract conditions
- Construction contractor
- Construction manager
- Construction organisations and strategy
- Construction progress meeting
- Construction progress report
- Construction stage report
- Construction work packaging
- Contractor vs supplier
- Contractor's proposals for building design and construction
- Contractors' all-risk insurance
- Cost consultant
- Cost of building
- Cost plans for construction projects
- Design coordination
- Design management
- Document control in building design and construction
- Early warning notice
- Elemental cost plan
- End of contract report
- End of stage report for construction
- Extension of time EOT in construction contracts
- Extended aftercare for completed construction works
- Final account.
- Final report for construction works
- Handover construction site to the client
- Initial cost appraisals.
- Key performance indicators KPI
- Lean construction
- Management contractor
- Method statement for construction
- Milestones
- Mobilisation
- Materials on site
- Outturn cost.
- Possession of the site by the contractor
- Practical completion
- Pre-contract meeting for construction contracts
- Pre-demolition and pre-refurbishment audits
- Pre-tender estimate for contracts
- Preliminaries in construction
- Programme consultant
- Programme float for construction projects
- Programme for building design and construction
- Project handbook
- Project manager's report for building design and construction
- Project team for building design and construction
- Quality control for construction works
- Record keeping
- Schedule of defects
- Schedule of work for construction
- Scheduling construction activities
- Sectional completion in construction contracts
- Supply chain management in construction
- Tender pricing document
- Whole-life costs.
- Works contractor.
[edit] Property development
[edit] Civil and building engineering contracts
[edit] Maintenance, repair and refurbishment
[edit] Management finance
- Balance sheet
- Bridging loan for property
- Capital allowances for construction
- Capital costs for construction projects
- Capital expenditure for construction
- Cash flow forecast
- Competition law
- Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
- Construction loan
- Construction VAT
- Corporate finance
- Cost Value Reconciliations (CVR)
- Discounted cash flow
- Discounting for construction projects
- Earned value for construction contracts
- Equity and loan capital for property development
- Finance act
- Financial management tools
- Financial Reporting Standard for Small Entities FRSSE
- Fintech
- Insolvency in the construction industry
- Intellectual property
- Money laundering
- Open book accounting
- Pay as you earn in construction PAYE
- Profit and loss account
- Profits method of rating valuation
- Project bank account
- Project benchmarking
- Property development finance
- Rent free period
- Research and development tax relief
- Tax relief
- Working capital
- Yield
[edit] Value management and engineering
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