Jack Butler-Kettle

Tips for Variations, Quantity Surveying

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Tips

Pricing change while it is still cheap

A change priced the week it happens costs an hour; the same change priced from memory costs the argument.

Price it before the labour walks off the job

Reach for the contract's rates before your own

Keep the time and disruption apart from the rate

Build it up to be checked, not to be trusted

Keeping a change register alive

A register is only worth keeping if it answers, at any moment, what is agreed, what is pending and what is at risk.

Confirm every instruction in writing the day it arrives

Record the status and the notice position, not just the value

Reconcile the register to the application every month

Claim the change even before the price is settled