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What does a QS and a cook have in common?
In my last blog I said that a Quantity Surveyor is like an accountant/lawyer/engineer hybrid.
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Me, PDP and Becoming MCIOB
In my previous blogs, I’ve talked about my route to a pro construction career and my current role.
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How I ended up as a QS in Brunei
You probably don’t associate Sri Lanka with skyscrapers but there are some very tall buildings there. As I was growing up, I became fascinated by the construction of the many high buildings also springing up around me. My father was a Land Surveyor and I knew that I really wanted to become a part of this industry wherever my future was going to be.
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Measure for Measure - Career Diary of a QS
Hello. I’m Vipattz Ratnarajah MCIOB. I’m a Native Sri Lankan currently working as a Quantity Surveyor in Brunei Darussalam, a small sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. I was awarded chartered membership from the CIOB in July 2016.
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Honing your board game technique
Making the leap from middle to senior management needn’t be daunting – if you’ve already honed your skills for the boardroom
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Building Team Construction
Watching England beat Italy in the Six Nations on Sunday, I was struck by the similarities between rugby and the construction industry.
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Apprenticeships are front and centre
This happens to be National Apprenticeship Week (6-10 March 2017), but apprenticeships are front and centre in people’s attentions for plenty of other reasons as well.
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Why 17 Schools in Edinburgh should make us all stop and consider our reputation
Last week Professor John Coles published his report into the building defects that led to emergency closure of seventeen schools in Edinburgh in 2016. It makes sobering reading for anyone who cares about our industry and the reputation of those who work in it.
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Social Mobility: how do we drive real change in our industry?
As we go about our professional work, we are wise to keep an eye on broader issues facing society. One such issue is that of ‘Social Mobility’, which is helpfully explored in the recent CIOB report, Social Mobility and Construction: Building routes to opportunity.
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Training that gets to the heart of the industry
As members know, CIOB has been setting educational standards and working with professional training providers for years. So you might be wondering why we’ve suddenly decided to do our own thing?
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The man who shoots Battersea
Kilian O’Sullivan is one of a select group of photographers chosen to document the evolution of Battersea Power Station. He tells Art of Building what it’s like getting inside the guts of one of London’s most prominent landmarks
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3 Square Metres - an everyday story of modern slavery
Nick Ng’s haunting images of Bangladeshi labourers working and sleeping on a Malaysian building site capture the everyday mundanity of modern day slavery