Professional Responsibilities

Abstract

I am very anxious to make one point from the start. The conference information leaflet states: ‘This conference aims to review and evaluate recent management thinking and techniques and their application to the special needs of the construction industry and its clients’. Having never (regrettably) studied management theory, I must ask you to accept my thoughts this afternoon not as those of an expert management theorist, but as the ideas of a practising Quantity Surveyor, albeit one who has had more opportunity than most to study and discuss the practical application of the theory contained within the standard forms of building contracts.