Cost & Commercial Management for the Americas

A Modern Quantity Surveying Handbook

The discipline exists across U.S. and Canadian construction markets, just not by its name, and not as a single function.

Quantity surveying’s core functions are fragmented across estimators, project controls specialists, schedulers, and commercial managers in North America, and that fragmentation creates cost drift, scope ambiguity, and inconsistent outcomes on projects that can least afford them.

This handbook brings quantity surveying discipline into environments that were never built around it: covering measurement and estimating without bills of quantities, procurement pathway analysis, contract form navigation across AIA, ConsensusDocs, DBIA, and FAR/DFARS, and the risk allocation and claims strategies that hold commercial outcomes together.

For estimators expanding into commercial advisory, project controls specialists, owner representatives, and international QS professionals working in the Americas.