Construction and the Built Environment

Assignment Task

You are employed as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, with a national consultancy. You have been assigned to the team that is working on a proposed residential development project with a total of 3,000 units in Shatin, New Territories. Hong Kong. The development scheme is a HK$310 million and the detail of project development is shown in Appendix A. The project is planned for a traditional procurement using a Standard Contract with Quantities (e.g. JCT Standard Building Contract with Quantities 2016).

The head of the Quantity Surveying team is considering whether to have you take a more central role in the project but needs some further confirmation of your ability to take on the additional responsibility. Therefore, he has asked that you carry out a series of preliminary tasks related to the project; in order that he can understand your knowledge, skill and application of the necessary principles.

You have been asked to produce a report that will illustrate your knowledge and understanding. Your report is to include: 

• A schedule for a selected element within the project and produce a sub-contract package for the element. Differentiate between a sub-contract and supply package.
• The drawings are provided by the Architect (see Appendix I). You are required to take-off quantities for a substructure element and a superstructure element. In both cases, these should be complex elements; so that you are required to undertake complex take-off processes. Further, with either the superstructure or substructure element, take-off quantities using a digital methodology. Based on your take-off quantities, critically evaluate manual vs digital methodology.
• Using the standard contract, prepare the preamble and preliminary clauses for the residential development project. Based on this, you will justify the inclusion of the preliminary clauses for the project and critically analyse the preamble clauses in relation to stakeholder needs for the project.
• For a selected work section, you are asked to produce a bill of quantities using manual techniques and digital techniques; comparing the accuracy of these different methods. Further, you are to explore the role of BIM in developing a bill of quantities and justify the use of digital or manual techniques for take-off in preparing a bill of quantities.

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