28-Jul-2010 by contact@bcis.co.uk
The massive cut back in the schools capital investment programme will put pressure on maintenance budgets.
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29-Jun-2010 by contact@bcis.co.uk
I recently chaired the first of the 2010 seminars on cost planning and life cycle costing and it made me proud to be a quantity surveyor...
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16-Jun-2010 by contact@bcis.co.uk
With capital spending programmes under threat, the next few years will see an increased focus on maintenance and operations costs.
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15-Apr-2010 by contact@bcis.co.uk
How many Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs) do you complete in a year?
How many ask the same questions in a slightly different way?
How much money do you waste as a result?
How much money does the industry waste in a year?
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08-Mar-2010 by contact@bcis.co.uk
When the Standardized Methodology of Life Cycle Costing for Construction Procurement (SMLCC) was published in 2008 there was much interest and, some debate about the worked examples.
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15-Jan-2010 by contact@bcis.co.uk
In 2008, the Government set some challenging targets for house building in England.
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02-Dec-2009 by contact@bcis.co.uk
We recently ran a seminar on indices, (the use and abuse thereof).
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28-Oct-2009 by contact@bcis.co.uk
When I wrote about the NRM earlier in the year I intended to return to the topic as soon as we had completed our mapping of the NRM to the SFCA.
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14-Oct-2009 by contact@bcis.co.uk
I received some comments on my previous Blog on cover pricing from Clive Rowe, who works for BCIS on our resource cost estimating services but was, until a year ago, a building contractor and he has many years experience as an estimator.
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22-Sep-2009 by contact@bcis.co.uk
I have followed the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) investigation into bid rigging in construction with interest and not a little bemusement over quite how they were interpreting 'cover price'.
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