Professional Practice 2

Reflective Journal

           Professional Practice is a standard and guidance cover all areas of surveying practice and embody best practice. Most of professional institutions provide the professional practice guidance for their members. Therefore, they can monitor the practice that taken by the professionals. As a professional party, we need to have a basic idea and knowledge on professional and contractual responsibilities of a quantity surveyor from design stage to final account stage. Through this module, we can clearly define needs and responsibilities of a quantity surveyor.

            The role of quantity surveyor not only measure and estimate the cost of a building, yet it includes others responsibilities like payment issues and contractual issues. These module have covered the topic such as contraction dispute, construction delays, contractor claims, right of setting off, partial possession by employer, final account and etc. I have learned that there are various contract in the industry, its limitation and constraints. Furthermore, I have gained sufficient knowledge and understanding of the administration of construction contracts and the application of particular contract clauses.

            We have given a group assignment to prepare a final account based on the information provided and to justify some variation claims whether to compromise or not. In the assignment, I have learned to analysis and interpret each of issues according to the contract clauses of construction contract.