Quantity Surveyors are not Time Planners !
We have had some interesting discussions with clients recently who have taken initial poor advice from Quantity Surveyors and other non-Time Planning consultants on how long construction projects will take.
As all skilled and experienced Project Time Planners/Schedulers would know, we never give advice on the cost of projects, because that’s not our role, and not what we practice day in and day out.
Some Non-Time Planning consultants seem to be using rules of thumb guesstimates based on value of works to arrive at a meaningless guess of duration for a project. Unfortunately this sort of practice is very much fraught with error, and ultimately means the consultant and/or client gets egg on their face when a real Time Planner tells them the real story.
Time Planning is not an art of rule of thumbs…
it is a methodological process of calculating durations for broken down pieces of the project and logically sequencing these together with due respect for buildability, available resources and external constraints.
Next time you Hear a Quantity Surveyor, Cost Consultant, Structural Engineer or other non-Planning Consultant giving a client TIME Planning advice, tell them to pull their head in and stick to their area of expertise.
