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Professional Negligence by Quantity Surveyors

Professional negligence is a failure to perform standard duty of care by the person who is known to be skilful. Quantity surveyors involved in the construction process from the start to the end. He is said to be owed a duty of care to the parties involved in the contract and also owed a duty of care...

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Main Author: Tan, Chai San
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/443/1/BQSI%20-%2042.pdf
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spelling my-inti-eprints.4432016-08-01T08:46:28Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/443/ Professional Negligence by Quantity Surveyors Tan, Chai San TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Professional negligence is a failure to perform standard duty of care by the person who is known to be skilful. Quantity surveyors involved in the construction process from the start to the end. He is said to be owed a duty of care to the parties involved in the contract and also owed a duty of care to third parties under tort. This research is to identify the conducts of quantity surveyors that will lead to professional negligence and to discover remedies for professional negligence. This research is conducted in quantitative method, which is questionnaire survey. The results are obtained from 31 respondents who are working in Consultant Quantity Surveyors Firm in Selangor Malaysia. Based on their responds, the analysis of the conducts of Quantity Surveyors is tabulated. The result shown that the top 3 conducts of Quantity Surveyors that will lead to professional negligence arc: (I) Preparation of Preliminary Estimates. (2) Tender Documents, (3) Estimate for Variation Works. From the analysis, the most preferable remedy for professional negligence is Professional Indemnity Insurances (Pl). The finding of the result showed that the professional negligence by quantity surveyors is much related to costing works. 2015 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/443/1/BQSI%20-%2042.pdf Tan, Chai San (2015) Professional Negligence by Quantity Surveyors. Other thesis, INTI International University.
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Tan, Chai San
Professional Negligence by Quantity Surveyors
description Professional negligence is a failure to perform standard duty of care by the person who is known to be skilful. Quantity surveyors involved in the construction process from the start to the end. He is said to be owed a duty of care to the parties involved in the contract and also owed a duty of care to third parties under tort. This research is to identify the conducts of quantity surveyors that will lead to professional negligence and to discover remedies for professional negligence. This research is conducted in quantitative method, which is questionnaire survey. The results are obtained from 31 respondents who are working in Consultant Quantity Surveyors Firm in Selangor Malaysia. Based on their responds, the analysis of the conducts of Quantity Surveyors is tabulated. The result shown that the top 3 conducts of Quantity Surveyors that will lead to professional negligence arc: (I) Preparation of Preliminary Estimates. (2) Tender Documents, (3) Estimate for Variation Works. From the analysis, the most preferable remedy for professional negligence is Professional Indemnity Insurances (Pl). The finding of the result showed that the professional negligence by quantity surveyors is much related to costing works.
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