In this episode, Paul is joined by Martin Burns, Head of ADR Research and Development at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Martin’s role is to develop tailored dispute avoidance and resolution strategies for governments and businesses in the UK and globally.

In today’s conversation, Paul and Martin discuss low-value disputes and the model Adjudication Procedure (LVD MAP) launched in 2020. Martin explains why he believes it is a superior dispute resolution process to adjudication in many cases.

LVD MAP could be the way for you to go if you have a dispute on your project.

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In this episode, Paul is joined by Brian Moone FCIOB MRICS, the Director of Mace Business School. Brian is a former Project Manager and Director of Supply Chain Management at Mace.

In today’s conversation, Paul and Brian discuss the importance of an integrated Supply Chain, how Mace tries to tackle this in a totally unique way with its Business School and how the word collaboration can hold real meaning if both parties are serious about achieving it.

If you don’t know about Mace Business School, as I did not, this is a fascinating listen to understand the psyche of Mace when it comes to Supply Chain Management.

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This week, Paul is joined by his close friend and QS, Chris Barber. Chris is a Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) at C-Link and Prosper and a passionate advocate for subcontractors on his YouTube channel, School of Sub.

For any Quantity Surveyor out there, whether you are a Trainee or now a Commercial Director, you will know the Tender Analysis process and likely won’t much enjoy the prospect of doing your next one.

Today’s conversation centres on the old, analogue Tender Equalisation and Analysis process versus how the future could look and the tool C-Link has built using AI to manage the process.

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In this episode, Paul is joined by two colleagues from Arup, Ian Gordon, a former QS who describes himself as “Doing some data stuff for the built & natural environment”, and Ola Gwozdz, who describes herself as a Data Philosopher.

In today’s conversation, Ola and Ian explain the importance of Data in the Built Environment and share how Arup works towards a data revolution and what this means for construction professionals.

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In this episode, Paul is joined by Ellie Carswell, Award Winning Construction Project Manager | Founder and Chair of G4C Kent Club | Constructing Excellence Kent Vice Chair.

In this conversation, we discuss how Ellie sees the relationship between Project Managers and Quantity Surveyors and how this relationship can be improved to bring maximum value to the project.

We also discuss Ellie’s article about how to attract the next generation of talent to the industry, what she is doing about it and what she thinks we can all do to change the perception of construction.

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In this episode, Paul is joined by Doug Johnson, founder and director at Mesh Energy, an independent and trusted services consultant focusing on providing innovative sustainable energy services to clients, architects, and the construction industry.

In today’s conversation, we discussed the design process and how best to manage it, explicitly considering M & E and services design. So often, in my experience, clients pay less attention to service design than they should do in the early stages of the project, and Doug and I debate this topic and how best to incorporate and coordinate service designers into the Design Team.

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This week, Paul is joined by his close friend and QS, Chris Barber. Chris is the Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) at C-Link and Prosper and a passionate advocate for subcontractors on his YouTube channel, School of Sub.

This week's conversation centres on an article about construction procurement routes. Main Contracting, as we know it, had its origins in the 19th century, and aside from the introduction of D & B Contracts in the 1980s, not much has changed.

In this episode, Paul and Chris explore why that is, what could change and how clients can create a better project environment for all involved.

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In this episode, Paul is joined by Sarah Fox, a construction contract expert and Director at 500 Words, who delivers simple digital trust-enhancing contracts to put construction companies in control.

In today’s conversation, we discussed Sarah’s book - “How to Write Simple and Effective Subcontract Agreements in Just 500 Words”. Sarah was inspired to write this book for “all the talented construction companies frustrated with horrific one-sided contracts”.

We discuss in today’s show how Main and Subcontractors should manage and negotiate Back-to-Back Main Contracts reasonably and fairly to benefit all parties involved.

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This week, Paul is joined by William Temperley, Managing Director at Fortis Foundations, Civil Engineering and Piling Specialists serving the Rail, Civils, Energy, Residential and Water sectors.

Will is a fascinating individual who set up his own Specialist Contractor some years ago and has a fascination with company culture that stems from his experience of being an integral Rugby team member, so much so that he wrote a dissertation on company culture.

Today’s show discusses how his focus on culture and organisation has led him to create a thriving and fast-growing company. We talk about his experiences at other companies and how that led him to make the world-class culture he now has.

In the context of today’s labour shortage, this is such an important listen for all contractors.

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 This week, Paul is joined by Tom Haley, Director and Founder at Quantik. Tom is a Construction Claims Specialist and Quantum Expert Witness

Tom is a Commercial and procurement specialist with experience leading business units and significant projects in the UK, Australia and Hong Kong within main contractor, subcontractor and supplier businesses. He is an expert in commercial recovery, procuring for value and dispute resolution, with a track record of enhancing revenue, profit and cash.

In today’s show, we discuss the evolution of Contractor’s QSs as Tom reflects on 20 years in the industry and considers where we will be. We discuss data, QS' as Data Scientists and reflect on the Project Review/CVR process and debate how the Quantity Surveying profession and contractors generally need to evolve.

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