Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book

The fifth edition of the Quantity Surveyor’s Pocket Book remains a must-have guide for students and qualified practitioners. Its focused coverage of the data, techniques and skills essential to the quantity surveying role makes it an invaluable companion for everything from initial cost advice to the final account stage.

Key features and updates included in this new edition:

• Examples of taking-off quantities and estimating including cost planning
• Carbon accounting
• Procurement practice
• Ethical considerations
• Developments in digital construction.
• The latest practice guidance notes and government publications
• Post contract management
• Updates to the NRM1, NRM 2 and the JCT 2024
• The impact of the Building Safety Act.

This text includes recommended formats for cost plans, developer’s budgets, financial reports, financial statements and final accounts. This is the ideal concise reference for quantity surveyors, project and commercial managers, and students of any of the above.