Quality & Value Management in Construction Achieving Excellence through Value-Managed Quality System Paper delivered by HT Ong, 26 May 2004, “International Conference on Managing Excellence in Construction, Chongqing, China”. Organised by CIOB China Details in PDF (filesize: 180kb)   Construction Contracts 1 What Constitute a Variation and how does one value Variations? Entrusty Group, Master Builders Journal, 2nd Quarter 2002, Master Builders Association Malaysia, pp 100-103 Details in PDF (filesize: 65kb)   Construction Contracts 2 Can the Contractor insist on agreeing on the Variation Cost before proceeding? Entrusty Group, Master Builders Journal, 3rd Quarter 2002, Master Builders Association Malaysia, pp 94-96 Details in PDF (filesize: 24kb)   Construction Contracts 3 Is the Contractor bound by his tendered rates, if the quantities changed substantially? Entrusty Group, Master Builders Journal, 4th Quarter 2002, Master Builders Association Malaysia, pp 94-95 Details in PDF (filesize: 26kb)   Construction Contracts 4 Must the QS take into account signed daywork sheets by the Architect/Engineer and can he then alter the daywork quantities on reasonable basis? Entrusty Group, Master Builders Journal, 1st Quarter 2003, Master Builders Association Malaysia, pp 79-80 Details in PDF (filesize: 32kb)   Construction Contracts 5 Should the Retention Sum be placed under a separate bank account? Entrusty Group, Master Builders Journal, 2nd Quarter 2003, Master Builders Association Malaysia, pp 86-87 Details in PDF (filesize: 49kb)   Construction Contracts 6 When must the Retention Sum be released and paid? Entrusty Group, Master Builders Journal, 3rd Quarter 2003, Master Builders Association Malaysia, pp 102-103 Details in PDF (filesize: 41kb)   Making Good Sense Extracted from TheStar Online Star 2, 20 November 2003, pp 6 Details in DOC (filesize: 34kb)