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In this edition we explain the two main roles for QS’s
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What are you aiming for?
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In this Issue
- Winds of Change – Motivational Speaker Announcement
- Building work that does not require a building consent, Dec 2010 Update
- The 7 challenges I will be embracing for 2011 are;
- XD Notices – From the Head Office
- Winds of Change, Wellington, me. – The Official Conference Limerick
- Quantity Surveyor teaches Jack Russell to surf
- Ten resolutions for 2011
- Will I be a Consultant or a Contractors QS?
- Winds of Change – Wellington Conference 2011
- QS Snippets
- Quasi-legal – Professional Negligence (QS) Case law + 3910 dates, etc.
26 January 2011, Issue JR2
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 Winds of Change – Motivational Speaker Announcement
MELISSA MOON
The Conference Committee announces that the Motivational Speaker for the NZIQS ‘Winds of Change’ Conference in Wellington in June
Two Times World Mountain Running Champion, World Stair Racing Champion, NZ Sports Woman of the year. Melissa. She is passionate about sharing the mental strategies that were key components of winning two World Mountain Running titles in Italy and Alaska. Throughout her 15 year career as an international athlete Melissa has experienced the highs and lows of sport and gained an enormous understanding of the power of the mind.
Keep your calendar clear for this event 15 – 17 June.
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Building work that does not require a building consent
December 2010 Update from DHB
You should know the answer to this question when it is asked of you;
Q. Do I need a building consent for X, Y or Z?
The Department of Housing and Building has recently revised their guidance on building work that does not require a building consent.
Please refer to [Qs Link] to download [PDF 1.2 MB, 60 pages] for the full guidance material published in December 2010 or refer DBH webpage [QS Link].
This is essential professional development information for all building professionals.
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The 7 challenges I will be embracing for 2011 are;
1. Conference 2011 Winds of Change
I attended conference 2010 because too many members like me were not attending and should be. If I was going to help NZIQS raise the attendance levels at future conferences then I had to attend to experience the event, share in the learning and to gather the material for sharing in a meaningful way with the members. It does not matter that practically all of this material is now on the NZIQS website, members (as a rule) don’t know this and don’t go searching for it. Anyhow conference 2010 was a blast. The CPD advantage of “being there” was huge and additionally rewarding was the “wow factor” of the entertainment provided, interesting company and social lubrication. Your national conference also provides sufficient CPD value to meet your average annual CPD Accreditation requirements. A one stop, CPD shop!
2. My new QS heroes for 2011 will be those remaining Associates who voluntarily transfer to Member
Every one of the 160 ex-Associates who have transferred to Member are my current QS heroes for sharing in a vision of a truly united NZIQS Membership. These people have shunned the safety of a secure past and comfortable present to embraced the bright and challenging future of a new name openly shared with the post 2003 Alma Mata. Associate to Member transfers started in late 2009 and were going gang busters until the Canterbury Earthquake, where we published nothing about this subject matter for 2 consecutive issues. Like the economic recovery the restart is sure but much smaller than desired. I will not give up on our Associates. I will save them from a destiny of isolation and ill definition. I will not let international confusion beset them with a perception of being a second class QS citizen. It’s a brave new world for Associates who become a modern Member in 2011, embracing the future and becoming my hero in 2011.
[Dear John please transfer me from A – M]
3. Expanding our network
Friend get Friend. If you have ever had the experience of trying to break the first sliver off of a block of solid ice, the extremely cold, wet, jarring pain radiating through your hands accurately translates the reason why we consider “breaking the ice” an apt phrase to describe the difficulty of initiating a new social relationship. Leading up to success we fear failure, yet we instinctively know there is great promise of reward in taking those first steps. I have spent the last year actively broaching the subject of NZIQS membership with QS’s I meet for the first time or become acquainted with in my work life while tendering projects for clients. I maintain a list of these names and I have fostered that initial discussion with follow up emails sharing e-bulletins and occasionally asking the new acquaintance if they have thought about applying to be a member? I send them application forms to review and consider. It is your enthusiasm that captures their imagination of what it is like to be a qualified member of NZIQS. These are intelligent people who do not need to be “sold” membership, often a smile is all it takes. The purpose of professional associations are self evident. My success in these efforts is stunning with success outnumbering failure by 5 to 1. People want to receive your endorsement of NZIQS. My goal for 2011 is to encourage you to start breaking the ice with your work mates and other QS acquaintances about being a member of NZIQS. Show them your enthusiasm. Smile, and give them confidence to take the plunge, take them out for a drink at the next branch CPD function, introduce them to your friends and make sure there is a little ice in the glass. Council will reward you with their Friend get Friend return (see Snippets for details).
4. Compulsory CPD, up-skilling our network
If you thought 2011 was going to be easy you are going to be disappointed. I will be putting rule changes up for member’s consideration at the AGM in Wellington that are designed to bring permanent change to the voluntary status quo of CPD for some members. Instead of focussing on the 1001 reasons why we should NOT do something, it is time to focus on the one reason why we should! Professionals practice with a sharp set of tools and accordingly deliver the best service possible. For NZIQS to be relevant and respected it must set high standards for its members to achieve. The NZIQS CPD programme has only been with us for 15 years. My proposed rule changes will seek to improve the 33 year old definition of Fellow, such that in future to be adjudged a quantity surveyor of “exceptional standing” you must be CPD accredited. Without CPD accreditation you will not be able to become a Fellow of NZIQS. I will also present two options for existing Fellows who are not CPD accredited; (1) Exemption from the new definition (the disgustingly popular grandfathering option) and (2) the phasing in of compliance over a 3 year period. There must be consequences for a Fellow, bound by the new rule, who fails to maintain CPD Accreditation. In this regard it will be proposed that such a Fellowship be put on probation until reviewed by Council, who may, at their discretion, grant a period of time sufficient for a Fellow to demonstrate either adequate progress towards or full compliance with the NZIQS CPD programme OR failing that, be transferred from Fellowship to Member status. Lastly we will include a Fellow reinstatement provision for those ex-Fellows who reinstate their CPD Accreditation. I anticipate a debate about compulsory CPD at the AGM (Conference) and it is my hope that compulsory CPD becomes a subject we devote more attention to for other qualified members as we move forward. We all have a voice and a vote, please express yours in June 2011.
5. A Call to Service our Profession, maintaining our network
NZIQS has many hard working, passionate volunteers. All hail the volunteers for without them we are nothing. WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS. Mentoring can only come from practitioners who are prepared to make a connection and develop a relationship with a young quantity surveyor. The whole mentoring concept is 100% positive. Square pegs will move on from Quantity Surveying faster and round ones will jump through the hole before they are pushed. As a profession we are short of good practitioners and Mentoring offers a vital tool to identify the good ones quicker, improve the average ones faster and (if we are going to be honest) help others find a more enjoyable alternative. The drive for more volunteers is not limited to mentoring. If you want to contribute you will be welcomed with open arms and you will be rewarded with the warm fuzzies of doing good deeds and a wider circle of QS friends.
6. Senior Member Recognition, network peer promotion
Quantity Surveyors must be the worst self promoters ever. We are also very poor at promoting our own kind. Fellowships and Life Memberships are doled our sparingly. We are failing to adequately recognise valuable contributions to the profession by senior members. Please find your copy of the 2010 year book and review ALL the names of Associates, Members and Fellows and circle any you think may be deserving of higher honours. Then take action!
7. Membership Categories, re-defining and refining our network
Head office has reported on a regular basis that people who do not fit our membership criteria are enquiring about becoming members. These people want to give us money. What is wrong with taking it from them? Not all our Facebook friends are our best mates! But if they like quantity surveying, then they are our friends. And if they want to pay us money, then they are friends with benefits. We have got to change our rules to find the right home for our friends. The goal for 2011 is to get the right definition for Graduate Member. It is vital we provide the graduate QS with recognition of their graduation. We lose too many students from our membership ranks each year. Students (or at least student members) currently make up 1/3rd of our total membership numbers. To compound matters our demographics tells us we are about to experience a high number of senior member retirements. Student retention as Graduates makes sense. Beyond that we need new places for kindred professionals and corporations.
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Please express any views you have in confidence with the Executive Director about the subjects raised above by the Editor. Email John@nziqs.co.nz
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XD Notices – From the Head Office
I hope you all had a refreshing break of some kind since last year. Best wishes from John, Gretchen and Alana to all members in this first ‘preteen’ year of the 21st century.
I expect (and hope) that the end of this year will see a slow return to normal construction levels but unfortunately expect that good news for new ‘private’ projects will not be widespread for a few months yet.
I notice in the past year a trend of new applications for CPD award and Registered Quantity Surveyor applications from newer members and those who have been awarded MNZIQS category since 2003 (previously Associate category). This is very encouraging and reflects the value that graduates of the past 10 – 15 years place on keeping up to date with a fast changing industry and profession and matching the requirements placed by government legislation on their fellow graduates who are engineers, architects, builders, accountants, lawyers, doctors, nurses etc. For firms who do not have a lot of work but wish to be prepared for the next lift in construction and/or suitable new roles for your business – retrain, renew and re equip if you can.
John Granville john@nziqs.co.nz 0800 477 469.
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Winds of Change, Wellington, me.– The Official Conference Limerick
To be the best you can be,
Enjoy two days CPD,
Your learning will unfold,
Untold wealth worth pure gold,
Winds of Change, Wellington, me.
(This limerick is not officially sanctioned by the Wellington conference committee who are busy working on the serious business of organising a conference with world class presentations and high spirited entertainment. We meanwhile will create whatever it takes to get you down to Wellington for conference 2011. Mark up your diary now!)
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Quantity Surveyor teaches Jack Russell to surf
Surfer Michael Naish, 22, taught Jack Russell Oli to balance on his board as he took to the surf in Sidmouth, Devon. He swam out with the four-year-old Jack Russell as an ‘experiment’ – but said the pet took an instant shine to the waves. Michael, who is studying quantity surveying at Reading University, said: “It was the first time I had ever taken Oli out surfing with me. It was a bit of an experiment really but Oli loved it. He adores the water and wasn’t scared at all.”
We caught up with Michael via Facebook messaging…
E-bulletin: Congratulations on your adventurous attitude Michael. Can you teach your Jack Russell to do take offs?
Michael Naish: "Thank you very much; I plan to take him out again in the summer when it’s a lot warmer, First Lesson a hang 20!" [Hang Ten (twenty for his dog) is when a surfer has all ten toes on the nose of the board. This is an extremely difficult trick to pull off.]
Stephen Mika: [Professor at the University of Reading added] "It appears that this sport is 'taking off' and there must be a 'standard method of measurement' for the sport?"
Source, Small World News Service, swns.com. Monday, January 10th, 2011 [QS Link]
Michael Naish [Facebook page]
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Ten resolutions for 2011
Extracts from “Ten resolutions for 2011” by Mackenzie-Hoy is a consulting acoustics and electrical engineer and journalist for South Africa’s “Engineering News Online”.
Resolution 9
I resolve that, when a member of the public phones me and says he or she “just wants to run something past me” and it is about soundproofing, I will put them on hold with no music at all. They will ring off. When they phone back, I will ask them if they were switched to sudden silence. If they say yes, I will explain that that is our “free professional advice” line and it contains all the free professional advice that we normally give out.
For all ten on the lighter side see [QS Link]
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Will I be a Consultant or a Contractors QS? (Heads or Tails?)
(for student members)
I challenged my mentee recently to watch the NZIQS careers DVD and provide feedback on the experience. Here is his response;
“I have actually watched it a couple of times now and did find it both interesting and informative. I think it is a really good tool to be able to explain to young people leaving school and looking at quantity surveying what it really is. I definitely took some stuff out of it but also think that from what I understand, including from talking to you, that there is really two different types of quantity surveying and that maybe an idea would also be you have a DVD really outlining the differences in these and showing people already training to be a QS what their options are and let them make an informed decision about which route they choose to follow?”
So for the benefit of our Student Members we will attempt to paint a picture of the two sides of the QS coin.
Heads, the consultant quantity surveyor
The Consultant or Professional QS works in a practice that provides quantity surveying services on a consulting basis for professional fees, usually to a principal or building owner. The label professional QS is appropriate to describe consultants but it is almost never used to describe contractors QS’s. The consultant QS usually works within a team of just Quantity Surveyors.
Typically a consultant QS will spend 85% of their time working on projects from the initial stages up to and including the procurement stage. Typically developing and updating cost plans and occasionally preparing a schedule of quantities. The remainder of their time will be servicing projects that become contracts between the consultant QS’s client and a main contractor.
Sometimes QS’s within the consultant team will specialise in estimates, schedules, administration or say the office “services” expert. Consultant QS’s provide a range of consulting advice services to their clients including, preliminary estimates, cost plans, schedules of quantities, tender evaluations, contract administration, value management, bank drawdown evaluations, insurance valuations and sometimes dispute resolution or project management services.
Tails, the contractors quantity surveyor
Contractors QS’s work in contacting organisations that do not provide distinctly “professional or consulting QS services” but perform QS functions within a team that includes many other trades and professionals who when combined, deliver “Construction Services”. Hence they are called Construction QS’s to distinguish them from their Consulting counterparts.
Typically a construction QS will spend 67% of their time administering contracts secured with principals and will work across the table from a consultant counterpart preparing. They maintain construction budgets, prepare progress claims, price and agree variations, administering payments to subcontractors etc. The remaining time will be spent prior to the award of a contract, estimating and tendering for projects. Where a contract is negotiated this involvement could be as early as their consultant counterparts and these two professionals will spend many hours together agreeing a fair basis for a negotiated contract value.
Some contractor’s organisations are specialist subcontractors working for main contractors and these contractors QS’s will become a QS expert in the pricing and management of that particular trade. Some main contractor organisations have a team of QS’s and some of these may be full time estimators or full time administrators but in most organisations, a main contractor's QS will be part time in each role.
Flip for the best 2 out of 3, which side of the coin is best for me?
Many Members try both sides of the coin so as to become well rounded quantity surveyors and to be able to decide if they have a preference. It is important to note there are two parties to a construction contract and each need their own QS skill set to administer the commercial aspects of the contract. The challenge for mentors today is to guide their mentee through these options. Quantity Surveyors also successfully develop and then migrate to non – QS roles within the industry and there are roles outside of the two main roles such as working for banks, insurance companies, the public sector and educational institutions.
Bringing Professionals together
Once a QS could choose between joining the New Zealand Quantity Surveyors Institute or the Building Surveyors Institute. NZIQS no longer distinguishes members as being either consultants or contractors following the amalgamation of the NZQSI and the NZBSI in 1977. Gone was the term “Professional Associate” and along came the term “Associate”. In part I guess that (a) NZBSI argued that they were professionals and (b) to call a contractor's QS a Professional Associate would confuse, well, everyone!
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 Winds of Change – Wellington Conference 2011
Continue your Professional QS Development at “Winds of Change” conference 2011
Venue is the stunning new Holiday Inn. Event special room rate is $179.00 incl GST.
Check it out [QS Link]
Dates: Wed 15th through to Friday 17TH June
Wednesday: NZIQS committees then Registration, cocktails, informal dinner;
Thursday/Friday: full conference days;
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QS Snippets
- NZIQS Website [http://www.nziqs.co.nz/career/vacancy.html] ð 2 NEW job listings;
- E-Bulletin Advertisers check out New & Regular recruitment advertisements in this issue also;
- Official Conference CPD hours claimable for conference 2011 by attendees are to be determined by the Quantity Surveyors Registration board and will be announced in due course;
- Dear Mentor, I just wanted to take the chance to thank you for all the help and guidance that you have given me this year (2010), it has been hugely helpful. I'm looking forward to continuing to work with you next year and I'm quite excited about next year’s university so thank you again for all you have done for me this year. Regards QS Student;
- Earn CPD Points. Become a NZIQS accredited Student Mentor [email: john@nziqs.co.nz];
- Paul Bunkall had his name carelessly misspelled in error in the Wellington December edition. Our Apologies to Paul and our congratulations again to him for his 30 year long service award. Our only saving grace was that in the photo of him receiving his certificate from Dan McGuinness (Branch Chair), his name appeared on the certificate correctly spelt. Paul Bunkall is a past president of NZIQS and a director of Rawlinsons Limited in Wellington;
- “Friend Get Friend” NZIQS Fee Rebate Scheme. Become an NZIQS advocate who encourages membership of NZIQS for quantity surveyors. With success comes the NZIQS “friend get friend” bonus. For each new full member you are credited with joining the NZIQS your next annual membership fees will contain a credit of $150.00 + GST. More info email:[ john@nziqs.co.nz];
- New Year honours list: MBEs, Order of the British Empire, Member Awarded to Chelliah Yogamoorthy, lead quantity surveyor, Highways Agency, Department for Transport, UK [QS Link];
- PAQS Conference 2011 – “Cost Management in a World emerging from Diversity” 22 – 27 July, Colombo Sri Lanka. CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE for submitting an extract is: 11 February 2011. This year PAQS Board has approved 4 inaugural awards for papers presented. Read More – http://www.paqs2011.lk/
- Do YOU have anything that you would like to say in the Bulletin or which you would like to see mentioned in the Bulletin OR on the website? If so, send your contribution to [john@nziqs.co.nz];
- Sallie-ho from big-hearted builders. Hawkins Construction workers in December 2010, delivered more than $2500 worth of food to Salvation Army’s Blair McKenzie for locals in need of some Christmas cheer. It’s the second consecutive year Hawkins, main contractor for the troubled Kawarau Falls development, has dropped off food to the Sallies. “When Kawarau Falls went into receivership the Salvation Army helped out some of the sub-contract staff,” senior quantity surveyor Neil Gough says. [QS Link] Source www.scene.co.nz;
- RICS cracks down on members’ misdemeanours. The RICS made nearly £140,000 last year from its members in disciplinary hearing fines and costs relating to offences including plagiarism, poor accounts, fraud, drink driving, sexual harassment and even growing cannabis. Richard Steer, chairman of Gleeds Worldwide, questioned whether some of the disciplinary action was appropriate. He said: “As a percentage of the institution’s £50m income it is not a great deal of money. The fact that drink driving is also included is particularly intriguing.” Source building.co.uk read more [QS Link];
- Facebook “QS in the News” turns ½ a year old on 21 January 2011. Quantity surveyors have appeared on average in 10 articles per week, in the online news somewhere in the world. " [QS Link]. QS current affairs making the news…
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Quasi-legal – Professional Negligence (QS) Case Law
Quasi-legal a type of regulatory instrument, rule or regulation with strong legal aspects but without any binding force; mostly recommendations.
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Professional Negligence: expert evidence is essential for professional negligence claims.
Pantelli Associates Ltd v Corporate City Developments Number Two Ltd [2010] EWHC 3189 (TCC) heard by Mr Justice Coulson on 2 December 2010.
Mr Justice Coulson held that neither the case of professional negligence nor the pleading of causation and loss had been proper pleaded.
For a summary of facts, decision and commentary by author see full article at [QS Link]
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