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July, 2015INSTITUTION OF SURVEYORS OF UGANDA (ISU)
ISU QS Chapter
Monthly Profile: Mr. Emmanuel Male
Retired Civil Servant
Inside
Background & Editorial 2
From the QS Chapter Chair 3
Factfile 4
The QS in the era of new generation
software 5
Jokes 7
QS PROFILE:
Mr. Emmanuel Male 8
A glimpse into the work of AAQS 11
News Roundup 14
Deffective construction work and the
QS 16
QS Members 18
QS Firms 19
Advertising & Find us on FaceBook 20
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Editorial
Welcome to the 1st Issue of 2015
– the 6th Issue of the QS Chapter
Newsletter since inception in
2012. Haven’t we come a long
way? Well, we are happy to be
back and hope to continue serving
you on a more regular basis.
Last month, the government released the national budget with
transport and infrastructure projects taking the lion’s share
at UGX 3.3 Trillion, some 18.2 per cent of the total resource
envelope, and elsewhere in the East African region, there is
continued investment in infrastructure of all types. Shouldn’t
this be good news to Quantity Surveyors? As construction cost
experts, these ought to be really exciting times!
Despite all this promise, “the region continues to experience
slow pace in implementation of key projects due to bureaucratic
hurdles in procurement, legal battles from losing bidders
and non-aligned interests from regional governments”. The
performance of the local currencies against the US Dollar is
another “Achilles’ heel” that we have to deal with, and so on and
so forth. It is our hope and prayers that the English saying on
excitement, purported to be a translation of a traditional Chinese
curse does not come to pass! All these insights and discussions
are aplenty in this Issue.
Besides infrastructure and procurement, we thought it necessary
to stimulate you for future insights, debates and discussions
on the environment and sustainable development, knowing
that the buildings we design, construct and live in contribute
approximately 40% of total Carbon Dioxide atmospheric
emissions! Despite the fact that Africa may be considered by
many as a virgin territory in terms of these issues, we need to
wake up to the fact that we live on a planet of finite resources
and we need to look at sustainability in the context of the global
economy – getting concerned by the effects of our actions on
other inhabitants and ecosystems in parts of the planet where
we may never go. We should try to hand the planet on, in a
decent condition, to future generations, so says the Brundtland
commission report of 1987, code named “Our Common Future”.
I should not pre-empt all that we have in stock, but let me end
by noting that for the 2nd time, the ISU will be hosting an EXCO
Meeting of the Africa Association of Quantity Surveyors (AAQS)
on the 13th and 14th of August 2015, another opportunity
to elevate the status of our members and open more doors
to opportunities, learning and development. I encourage all
members to encourage all other members to turn-up in big
numbers.
I am confident that you will enjoy this Issue and thank you in
advance for your continued support to the Chapter and the
Institution. Our official contact still remains qschapter@gmail.
com, but feel free to contact any of the members of the Editorial,
the QS Chapter Chairperson and the ISU Secretariat, for your
comments, articles and contributions.
Barbara Mugyenyi
Background
The Institution of Surveyors of Uganda was
reconstituted in 2000 as a professional body
with the mandate of ensuring the professional
enhancement of the surveying profession
in Uganda. This entails the promotion,
advancement and safeguarding of the
profession.
Furthermore, it aims at protecting the general
public and consumers of surveying services
from unscrupulous and fraudulent surveying
practitioners through setting and maintaining
basic education requirements for its members
and the public.
ISU comprises three chapters
* Valuation Surveying
* Land Surveying and
* Quantity Surveying.
It is run by an Executive and Council.
The Executive is comprised of a President, Vice
President, Secretary, Vuce Secretary, Treasurer
and a Vice Treasurer. These are elected during
an Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Council of the executive comprises of Executive
Members, 3 Chapter Chairmen, Technicians
representatives and Student representatives
from the various academic institutions offering
different surveying disciplines in Uganda.
Disclaimer:
The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily
those of ISU and, while every reasonable effort has been
made to ensure the accuracy of all content, ISU will
have no responsibility for any errors or omissions in the
content.
Editorial Team:
Tom Joseph Mukasa
Barbara Mugyenyi
Rebecca Tusiime
Design:
May Senyondo
Contacts:
qschapter@gmail.com
isusecretariat@gmail.com
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focus will increase our visibility to other sectors
and highlight our diversity as quantity surveyors,
cost consultants and construction experts.
On behalf of the editorial team, I would also like
to take this opportunity to request for articles on
topics related to QS competencies – Accounting
principles, Business planning, Communication
and negotiation, Contract administration and
practice, Dispute resolution, Design economics,
Health & safety, Insurance, Construction
technology, Procurement, Risk management, to
mention but a few. A full list of the competencies
relevant to the QS and the construction industry
at large is available at the ISU secretariat.
Finally, I would like to use this opportunity to
thank members who are active and supportive of
ISU activities and please keep up the good spirit,
for the future of our profession in Uganda.
Thank you once again.
Sheila Kaijuka
BSc. Hons. (QS) MRICS ( 2001 ) FISU ( 2014)
Partner, Ridge Consulting
QS Chapter Chair 2014 – April 2016
Dear members,
We are happy to see
our QS publication
back in circulation. This year we hope to have
more regular publications and use this as a
forum for exchanging views and keeping up
to date with issues that aim to expand our
knowledge and/or inform us about current
issues in the quantity surveying profession,
as well as the construction industry at large.
This year Uganda has the opportunity of
hosting the African Association of Quantity
Surveyors on the 13th and 14th August
2015. We look forward to this event and the
worldwide variety of speakers that connect
us with the rest of Africa. The theme that was
selected looks at Infrastructure development
in East Africa. The last event held in Uganda
was in 2009 and was a success. We anticipate
the same will be true for this year 2015.
The Continuous Professional Development
(CPD) this year has had an underlining
theme of inter-professionalism, addressing
issues that impact the industry at large and
our world, with topics on the environment,
communication and education, recognizing
that as a profession we do not work alone but
depend on teamwork, interacting with other
professionals to deliver successful projects.
This follows last year’s theme with the 2nd
joint construction industry professionals
symposium seminar spearheaded by
the architects of the Uganda Society of
Architects (USA) and orgainsed by Uganda
Institute of Physical Planners (UIPP),
Uganda Association for Impact Assessment
(UAIA), Uganda Institution of Professional
Engineers (UIPE) and the Institution of
Surveyors of Uganda (ISU ) . I believe this
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Amsterdam has more bicycles than people. Source: Internet
The Global Green Economy Index is an in-depth
look at how 60 countries and 70 cities are doing in
developing more environmentally friendly econo-
mies, in actual performance and in how experts
perceive their performance. This fact file looks at
the world’s ten greenest and most sustainable cit-
ies in 2014.
1. COPENHAGEN.
Rated one of the world’s most livable cities, the
metropolis of nearly two million people is known
for advanced environmental policies and planning,
with its goal to be carbon-neutral by 2025 and a
Cleantech Cluster of more than 500 companies.
City infrastructure is designed to be conducive to
bicycling and walking rather than cars.
2. AMSTERDAM.
Everyone rides bicycles in Amsterdam and has
been doing it for decades. It’s one of the most
bicycle-friendly cities in the world, due in part to
its compactness and flatness, as well as its bike
infrastructure, including protected paths, racks and
parking.The city has more bicycles than people.
3. STOCKHOLM.
Stockholm was the EU’s first city to win the
European Green Capital Award. With coordinated
environmental planning that began in the ’70s,
ample green space and a goal to be fossil fuel-free
by 2050, it’s one of the cleanest cities in the world.
4. VANCOUVER.
Vancouver is densely populated and expensive but
its moderate climate makes it a highly desirable
place to live. So does the fact that it’s the cleanest
city in Canada and one of the cleanest in the world.
5. LONDON.
One might not think of foggy London town as a
green city but the town has actively worked to
leave its bleak, early Industrial Revolution image
behind it, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and
creating more green spaces.
6. BERLIN.
Coming in first on the European main continent,
Berlin’s Environmental Zone in its city core allows
only vehicles that have a sticker indicating that it
meets certain emissions standards.
7. NEW YORK.
New York is, perhaps surprisingly to some, the
greenest large city in the U.S. Its greenhouse gas
emissionsarelowforacityitssizeanditspopulation
relies heavily on its extensive public transportation
system. The city itself has put in place a green
building initiative.
8. SINGAPORE.
After industrialization brought heavy pollution,
Asia’s greenest city tackled the problem head on,
creating its first Singapore Green Plan in 1992 to
tackle clean water, clean air and clean land. It aims
to have zero waste in landfills by the mid-21st
century.
9. HELSINKI.
Like many Scandinavian cities, Finland’s capital
encourages bicycle use and public transportation.
The city has been working toward sustainability
since the late ’50s with energy efficiency programs
and an aggressive Sustainability Action Plan
adopted in 1992.
10. OSLO.
Norway’s capital rounds out the four Scandinavian
cities in the top ten. The city government has
its Strategy for Sustainable Development which
includes an aggressive program to protect its
natural surroundings. Its Green Belt Boundary
protects wild areas from development.
Source: EcoWatch.com [Online]. Available at: http://
ecowatch.com/2014/10/24/top-ten-greenest-cities-world/,
[Accessed: 22 May 2015].
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Since the late 20thCentury, the construction industry
has been slowly embracing the use of electronic
information in the project flow. Computer facilities,
software and databases, and general business
practices have been developed for purposes of
improving productivity in the workplace. However,
a majority of Quantity Surveyors are still using
the traditional method of carrying out their
measurement works (taking-off) from drawings and
then later transferring dimensions into spread sheets
for issuing out cost reports to other members of the
construction project team.
The above process is heavily dependent on paper,
which is associated with various costs: drawings
issued in hard copy incur costs of printing and
postage; measuring using a scale ruler can be an
inefficient way to measure and may be open to the
potential for human error; there is a potential risk
that changes to a drawing can be missed if they are
checked on hardcopy drawings manually; and, if
the drawing standard is not an electronic format, it
makes it difficult to achieve the potential savings that
are available from computer aided measurement.
Traditional v. Automation of the
Measurement System
In the traditional method of measurement, the
Quantity Surveyor uses Dimension Paper, Scale
Rules, a Calculator, and follows a Standard Method
of Measurement for his routine taking-off. However,
some Quantity Surveyors have begun or are in the
process of embracing electronic measurement in
the hope of a more efficient system in terms of
productivity. The options available include the use
of 2-Dimension drawings to execute on-screen
measurement and sometimes 3-Dimension “Building
Information Models” (BIM). The measurement tools
at their disposal are a computer and the software.
The Pros and Cons of Automated
Measurement Systems
Mostthingsinlifehaveprosandcons,andthisapplies
to the use of Automated Measurement Systems. On
the positive side of things, Automation is becoming
a global trend and therefore is being embraced by
the construction industry in order to catch up with
other industries. There are benefits of customised
automatic report presentations, particularly useful
for highly repetitive tasks, live linkages, improved
accuracy,reducedmeasurementtimeandcontinuous
real-time updating of costs with the design.
On the negative side of things, there are high initial
capital requirements and set-up costs in software
and the training of personnel, considerable computer
specifications required for 3-Dimension graphics, a
steeplearningcurve,aswellaspotentialdesignerrors
which may lead to discrepancies in measurement.
What then is BIM?
BIM is an acronym for “Building Information
Modelling”, the process of generating and managing
building data during the life cycle of a facility by using
3-Dimension dynamic modelling which encompasses
building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic
information, and quantities, as well as properties of
building components (Cadway Project 2010). It is an
evolution from traditional 2-Dimension design to a
dynamic 3-Dimension model built around a database
of a project’s functional properties.
The use of BIM is soon reaching the point where
its use on building projects will be the norm rather
than the exception. It is therefore inevitable that
documentation and data will be increasingly
automated to the point where measurement and
other technical processes will require minimal human
intervention (Smith, 2002).
INTRODUCTION
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The following types/stages of BIM are being used on
the market:
• 2D-BIM: 2 Dimension, Paper Drawings and 2D
CAD files
• 3D-BIM: 3 Dimension, Models, 3D CAD virtual
models
• 4D-BIM: Adding the aspect of Time (Scheduling)
to 3D Models
• 5D-BIM: Adding the aspect of Cost (Estimating)
to 3D Models; and
• 6D, 7D or ND-BIM: Adding the aspect of Life
Cycle Management, Sustainability, etc. to the 3D
Models.
Finally, it should be noted that BIM is about sharing
knowledgeandprovidesabasisforIntegratedProject
Delivery.
Benefits of 5D-BIM for Cost Estimating
5D-BIM estimating creates opportunities for the QS
in the construction industry. Some of these benefits
include:
• Dramatically reduced measurement time
• Elimination of errors and improved accuracy
• Definition of scope and cost is transparent to
all project stakeholders, enabling early cost
decisions
• Continuous real-time updating of costs with the
design; and
• Greater accountability in the management of
projects.
SomeresearchstudiesonBIMprojectshaveindicated
up to 40% elimination of unbudgeted change; cost
estimation accuracies within 3%; up to 80% reduction
in the time taken to generate cost estimates; savings
of up to 10% of contract values through clash
detections; and up to 7% reduction in project time
(Standford University, 2007).
Where to find BIM?
BIM software is now everywhere and you may
already be in contact with some of the suppliers
and manufacturers of BIM technology. A few of the
common trademarks include: Bentley Systems:
Autodesk; Tekla; Exactal/CostX; Graphisoft;
buildingSMART; dimtronix; and Autodesk
NAVISWORKS, to mention but a few.
Challenges of BIM
Several challenges have been experienced by those
who have tried to use BIM on their construction
projects. The challenges can be considered from
the perspective of BIM risks, BIM adoption barriers,
Industry wide challenges, Company level challenges,
as well as Individual challenges.
The risks of BIM include design errors (who shall
be responsible and liable for any design errors?),
communication (who will access to the BIM model
during the construction phase?), control (the risk of
changing a BIM model without approval), and costs.
Thebarriersincludeaslowadoptingmarket,software
capabilities and a number of legal barriers inherent in
the current Forms of Building Contracts, for example
ownership of the BIM model.
Other challenges at industry, company and individual
level include the availability of universally acceptable
standards, steep learning curves for building BIM
expertise, software and hardware upgrades, lack of
a ready pool of skilled BIM manpower, and a change
of mind-sets, whereby the current practitioners are
deeply entrenched in 2-Dimensional practices.
The way forward for BIM
• The public sector should take the lead
• The industry and all stakeholders should promote
success stories
• Capacity building in BIM practices
• Incentivising BIM adopters
The sky is the limit. “A challenge only becomes an
obstacle when you bow to it.” Ray Davis
(Compiled by: EditorialTeam)
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No Jokes: Scenarios for the Future Environment!
During the previous months, we have witnessed the celebration of various events
related to the Environment, including: World Wetland Day (2nd February), World
Wildlife Day (3rd March), International Day of Forests (21st March), World Planting
Day (21st March), World Water Day (22nd March), Earth Day (22nd April) and
World Environment Day (5th June).
Inaddition,theQSChapterhasrecentlybeeninvolvedwithorganisingCPDscentred
on Sustainability and the Environment. In that spirit, we have decided to share
with you two futuristic scenarios of what our world could become, depending on
how we handle the current and future challenges of our environment.
QS Student of the Future Part 1
The young QS student awoke on a hot, oppressive morning. It wasn’t a school day,
so he could afford to lie back for a while with his favourite sketchbook at the hostel.
That was the one with drawings of great forests - the woodlands filled with tall
trees, wild animals and clear-running streams. The scenes seemed so magical that
the student could hardly believe in them, though his parents back at home always
assured him that such wonders once existed. Closing his sketchbook, he saw no joy
in the day ahead. He wished the air conditioner weren’t broken. He wished there
was more food at the cafeteria. He wished he could see the great forests. But there
was no use in thinking about that now. It was enough of a struggle just to be alive,
especially for a student.
QS Student of the Future Part 2
The young QS student awoke on a cool, inviting morning. It wasn’t a school day,
so she could look forward to doing what she liked best. With her roommates, they
were going for a picnic just outside the city into the great forest, where they would
stroll under the tall trees, spot wild animals and wade in clear-running streams.
Every time they went, she felt lucky. After all, her parents back home had told
her stories about the old days - before people learned to protect the land and
water and harness the power of wind and sunlight. It was a dark time when the
forests died, rivers ran dry and millions went hungry. The student was amazed and
frightened that such things could ever have happened. But there was no need to
think about that now - not with a glorious day ahead. It was so good to be alive,
especially for a student.
Adapted from Time Magazine Special Issue on the Environment, November 1997, Vol. 150
Issue No. 17A
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QS PROFILE : Mr. Emmanuel Male
INTRODUCTION
Mr Emmanuel Male is a retired civil servant with a Quantity
Surveying background. He has also served on the board of
the Surveyors Registration Board (SRB) of Uganda and he
is the current President of the Institution of Surveyors of
Uganda (ISU). In this 6th Issue, we caught up with him at
the ISU secretariat on Tuesday 30th June 2015, and what
follows are some excerpts of what transpired.
1. Describe yourself, in three words?
Retired Civil Servant
2. How did you find your way into Quantity Surveying?
I trained in Quantity Surveying at the University of Nairobi,
in the late 1960s. I had done sciences at A levels, and I
was attracted to the course because it was in Nairobi where
I expected to get more exposure and it wasn’t a general
degree course, leading to a professional qualification. In
those days everyone wanted to be either a doctor or an
engineer, but this course was between engineering and a
general course.
3. What was your first Quantity Surveying Job, and was it
your first job in the Construction Industry?
Actually, at the beginning you didn’t have a job, but
undertook tasks to help those who had jobs, for the first
2 years. These supervisors provided mentorship to us. I
started my mentorship with the government of Uganda,
which was the largest consumer of quantity surveying
services at the time. I remember being sent to Masindi
and Hoima to carry out interim valuations, under the
guidance of two mentors, who were British. Although the
head of the department was an African, the two British
Mentors provided all the supervision to the new staff in
the department. They were doing a good job and I had a
pleasant time at the beginning of my career.
4. How has Quantity Surveying changed since you
started?
There have been quite a lot of changes basically due to
technology advancement. When I started working, there
were no personal computers in offices. I first used a PC
about 15 years into my career, in the early 1990s. Apart
from technology, even the approach to construction
projects has changed: the selection and management of
procurement has been shifted away from the traditional
experts (the quantity surveyors) to procurement and legal
experts. It is them that are now in charge and they look at
it in a different perspective: engineering efficiency is lost,
cost effectiveness is lost, and cost management has become
messy because of different objectives of the people in
Mr. Emmanuel Male at the AGM 2015
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charge of construction procurement at the moment.They do
not respect some of the documentation that we considered
essential in the past – Bills of Quantities, valuations for
Interim Certificates and Final Accounts mean very little to
them.
Costs have become more dynamic, changes in materials
and components develop faster, due to increased
mechanization, which has made the cost estimation and
control function of the QS more volatile and fragile.
5. You are the current president of the Institution of
Surveyors of Uganda (ISU) and have been a board
member on the Surveyors Registration Board (SRB) of
Uganda. What do you look for in someone interested
in becoming a registered surveyor under the laws of
Uganda?
Actually the work of the SRB is supplemented heavily by
the Institution. The board relies heavily on the institution
for the appraisal of a candidate. The Board is interested
in someone who is recognized by the Institution because
then he or she is assumed to be adequately qualified.
Therefore to be considered for registration one must be a
member of the ISU (a Professional Associate of ISU for at
least one year), with a good work record in the surveying
discipline, as well as relevant qualifications. The candidate
should have a recommendation of at least two registered
surveyors, one of whom must be the supervisor.
If someone satisfies all the above requirements, the board
will usually not object to that person’s registration, unless
an issue has been raised against that person’s work
6. Briefly share with us the genesis of your business
practice as a Professional Quantity Surveying Firm,
and a few of the projects you have handled since you
started practicing.
Being in government we were not allowed to have private
practices, for ethical reasons of avoiding conflicts of
interest, especially as government was the largest consumer
of quantity surveying services at the time (and perhaps still
is).
I have been in retirement for 3 years now and it takes some
time to get established in private practice, especially when
you begin this at the dawn of your career. This is also at a
time of low construction activity, but I need to clarify this
statement.
Whereas government has allocated a lot of funds for
infrastructure projects, and whereas there is a lot of
construction activity around the city and the country in
general, most of the infrastructure projects do not engage a
lot of quantity surveyors, and the majority of construction
projects by private clients are carried out with little input
of quantity surveyors. There is also a lot of informal
construction activity in the country, with no official records
on the construction costs of such projects. A Quantity
Surveyor has little scope in such informal settings.
7. What has been your preferred management style
when handling projects?
Actually in government I had no choice: there is an
established management style which we had to conform
to. It involves working to written rules and procedures
about almost everything. Records are kept of much of what
occurs through reports, minutes of meetings and memos.
Workers spend a fair amount of time sending memos back
and forth and producing written reports detailing their
activities.
It may involve working with difficult people without
combating them, but at the same time ensuring that you
deliver the results expected from your assignments. You
can’t hire or fire anyone at will, but work with whoever
is available and get the best out of them. It is about
“compromise without missing the objective”.
Similarly, here at the ISU Secretariat, I have discovered
that since most of the people you work with are elected
and work on voluntary basis, you have to adopt an almost
identical approach. As a leader, you have to aim at
optimising their productivity to get the best out of them:
there is a lot of delegation and monitoring and you have to
avoid doing things in isolation.
8. What is the hardest thing about being a Quantity
Surveyor in Uganda?
There is a lack of adherence to universal norms and
practices, for example, the construction industry is littered
with a lot of informal transactions and costs are not taken
serious. A QS’s biggest concern on a construction project
is cost control, but in an environment where costs are
swaying and the economy is unstable, most cost forecasts
and predictions tend to fall out of the equation. In the end
QSs are not playing the role that they ought to be playing
in the construction industry.
There is also an issue of technology moving at
unprecedented speeds, creating a lot of unpredictability in
the construction environment: what you design or specify
today may not be available on the market mid-way through
the project implementation phase. For example, although
the current Workers’ House and the former UCB Towers
(now Cham Towers) were designed at about the same time,
to the layman, while one building has almost no windows,
the other one has almost no walls but glass/windows! This
brings up a lot of variations on projects, which are usually
not well comprehended by the lawyers, procurement
and accounting officers, who tend to look at such issues
suspiciously.
The subordination of the traditional construction project
team of Engineers, Architects and Quantity Surveyors,
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to the new trend of procurement professionals (with little
comprehension of the core disciplines of the industry) is
the third challenge that the QSs and other professionals in
the construction industry have to address.
9. There has been an increasing involvement of
built environment professionals in the concept of
sustainability and environmental management.
Recently,governmentpolicies,internationalpoliticsand
architectural responses mean that it is an issue rarely
out of the press, yet, this remains poorly understood,
and the source of much debate and disagreement. Do
you have any comments on this issue?
In my school days, the environment was not one of the
key subjects that we had to study, and therefore I have
had a passive role on issues to do with sustainability and
environmental management during my career. However,
there have been massive awareness campaigns spearheaded
by the National Environment Management Authority
(NEMA) since 1995, under the National Environment Act.
I am also happy to note that through CPD workshops, our
QS Chapter has been taking some steps to sensitizing our
members on sustainability and environmental management
issues that affect and are affected by the activities and
products of the construction activities. The construction
industry contributes a lot to climate change and the
depletion of finite resources on this planet.
10. ISU is hosting the Africa Association of Quantity
Surveyors (AAQS) EXCO Meeting and a seminar in
Kampala on 13th and 14th August 2015. What are your
thoughts on the impact of such an event to the Quantity
Surveyors of Uganda?
AAQS is a regional body with national body representatives
from the majority of Africa, to which Uganda is a member
through the ISU. Since the challenges facing QSs in
Uganda are not unique, having this meeting helps us not
to try and reinvent the wheel. When we associate in this
manner, we shall be able to share and grow our profession
by modifying proposals and lessons learned elsewhere.
We are looking forward to this event, understanding that the
AAQS has even moved towards developing and publishing
standard documentation that cut across member countries,
and through association with the AAQS, we hope to gain
access to such documentation.
11. What do you get up to in your spare time?
Since I am retired from very active quantity surveying
practice, I have seen myself get more involved with small-
scale agro-farming research and practice. I am able to
exercise my body physically, breathe fresh air and blend
with nature.
I have also become fond of doing research through the
internet, for agricultural activities and not this “facebook”
thing!
12. If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive,
who would it be and why?
This is a tough choice, but I would go for my Head of
Department at the University of Nairobi, Mr. Nelms (not
quite sure of the name though). This was a man who had
an answer to everything!
I don’t know his whereabouts now, but I have never met an
all-round intelligent person like him!
He could relate his technical lectures to real life situations
in the most plain and simplest of languages. It was difficult
to fail his subjects, as his lessons could stick in the mind
like glue.
I have since met very few people like him.
13. What is the best piece of advice you can offer those
aspiring to join the Quantity Surveying profession?
This is complicated! At the time I decided to join Quantity
Surveying the motivations for and the circumstances
of becoming a QS were very different from today:
opportunities for employment were vast, you were assured
of a placement even before graduation, and the “formal”
construction industry was booming!
Fast forward 40 years and the QS profession in Uganda
todayisdifferentaswehaveseeninmypreviouscomments.
Despite all the apparent construction boom both from the
private and public sectors, many young graduates are
struggling to find any meaningful opportunities.
However, since every cloud has a silver lining, they
should not feel hopeless as the immense challenges in
the construction industry and the world at large will
eventually create more and better opportunities for those
who persevere, work diligently and strategically prepare
themselves to address the challenges.
There have been very many areas going wrong and time
will come when clients realize that projects need quantity
surveyors for the effective management of contracts and
accountability for construction costs. You have be prepared
to take up the opportunities by embracing the trends that
are trying to shape the construction industry of the future:
ethics, standards and technology.
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At a built environment congress in 1995 in Harare,
Zimbabwe some of the quantity surveying delegates
expressed interest in establishing an association for
quantity surveyors practicing in Africa and in 1997
at a congress in Bloemfontein, arranged by the
Association of South African Quantity Surveyors, a
formal declaration of intent was made to establish
an association for quantity surveyors to which the
various national institutes, institutions, associations
or societies for quantity surveyors in Africa could
subscribe. In 1999 at Sun City in South Africa the
first General Assembly of the Africa Association of
Quantity Surveyors ratified a constitution with by-
laws and the first council of the AAQS was elected
with Mr Len Harris from South Africa the first
president.
Over the years there have been 16 council meetings,
6 General Assemblies, as well as 6 Presidents.
Founding Institution Members
• Association of South African Quantity Surveyors
• Ghana Institution of Surveyors
• Institute of Namibian Quantity Surveyors
• Institute of Quantity Surveyors of Kenya
• Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
• Quantity Surveyor Chapter of the Architectural
Association of Kenya
• Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in
Botswana (no longer a member)
• Tanzania Institute of Quantity Surveyors
Prime objective
To unite national bodies of quantity surveyors
on the African continent on a democratic basis
and to foster co-operative, intellectual, cultural,
educational and scientific ties among such bodies.
Further Objectives
• To foster and maintain professional contacts,
mutual support and assistance amongst
members and to maintain contact with other
internationalassociationswithsimilarobjectives
and functions
• To promote the recognition of the quantity
surveyor’s role in society in Africa and to
maintain public confidence in the integrity
and the competence of quantity surveyors by
encouraging members of the AAQS to maintain
the highest professional standards
• To promote and encourage development and
education in quantity surveying in Africa
• Topromoteresearchandtechnicaladvancement
in the built environment in Africa
• Topromotefreemovementofquantitysurveyors
amongst member countries of the AAQS
• To provide all possible support to the creation
of bodies of quantity surveyors throughout the
African continent
• To promote the development and use of model
documentation in Africa
Functions
• To initiate, define and assist in the
implementation of joint programmes and co-
operation in quantity surveying education,
practice, research and development throughout
Africa
• To collect and disseminate information on a
regional and world-wide basis relevant to the
activities of the AAQS
• To prepare and publish periodically updated
directories of Institution Members and various
aspects of quantity surveying research and
development, journals, newsletters and
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magazines of the AAQS
• To identify the needs of Africa which might be
met by the quantity surveying profession
• To assist in generating training opportunities for
quantity surveyors and students and organising
staff and student exchanges amongst Institution
Members
• To organise study tours, seminars, workshops
and other meetings on general and selected
aspects of quantity surveying, education,
research and development in Africa
• To carry out any other activities as the AAQS
considers conducive to the attainment of its
objectives
Institution Membership
InstitutionMembershipshallbeopentoanynational
institute, institution, association or society which in
the opinion of the council of the AAQS represents a
body of quantity surveyors in sovereign countries of
Africa,providedthattheconstitution,objectivesand
functions of such institute, institution, association
or society are consistent with those of the AAQS.
The AAQS may allow Institution Membership of the
AAQS to an institute specifically to represent a single
quantity surveying practice where in the opinion of
the council of the AAQS there is no readily available
alternative to representing quantity surveyors in a
specific country.
Associate Membership
Associate Membership may be granted at the
discretion of the council of the AAQS to any
group or organisation within any African country
or internationally, provided that such group or
organisation of non-quantity surveyors subscribes
to the objectives and functions of the AAQS.
Associate Members shall have all the rights and
responsibilities of full Institution Membership,
except that they shall not be represented by
a delegate at a general assembly of the AAQS
(generally held every third year) and shall not have
the right to vote at any meeting of the AAQS.
Honorary Membership
The council of the AAQS may from time to time
recommend to the general assembly the granting
of Honorary Membership to individuals or non-
member organisations which, in the opinion of the
council of the AAQS, have made an outstanding
contribution towards the furtherance of the
objectives of the AAQS.
Such Honorary Members may participate in the
activities of the AAQS but shall not be represented
by a delegate at a general assembly of the AAQS
(generally held every third year) and shall not have
the right to vote at any meeting of the AAQS.
Practice Membership
Practice Membership shall be open to quantity
surveying practices practising in Africa and who
are registered members of, or are endorsed by, an
Institution Member of the AAQS in the applicable
country. Practice Membership shall not have any
voting rights but such practices may through one
representative attend AAQS council and general
assembly meetings as observers and participate
fully in all discussions.
Council
The council of the AAQS, which meets at least
annually, comprises the President, the Vice
Presidents (one from each region), the Secretary
General, the Honorary Treasurer, one representative
from each Institution Member, the chairmen of
the boards, two representatives from each of the
regions, the Immediate Past President, the Outgoing
Immediate Past President and a maximum of two
persons co-opted in terms of the constitution of the
AAQS.
Executive Committee
The executive committee of the AAQS comprises
the President, the Immediate Past President, the
Outgoing Immediate Past President, the Vice
Presidents (one from each region), the Secretary
General, the Honorary Treasurer, the chairmen of
the boards and a maximum of two persons co-opted
in terms of the constitution of the AAQS.
Boards
There are four Boards, namely Education, Research
and Training; Membership; Conduct and Ethics and
Services and Model Documentation.
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General Assembly
The supreme body of the AAQS is the general assembly which meets triennially. The general assembly
comprises the council of the AAQS together with delegates representing the Institution Members (quantity
surveying organisations within each member country) as follows:
Quantity surveying
membership of relevant
Institution Member
Delegates representing
Institution Member
Observers representing
Institution Member or
Associate Member
Less than 50 1 1
Between 50 and 99 2 1
Between 100 and 499 3 2
Between 500 and 999 4 2
1000 or more 5 3
Practice members may each send a representative
as observer to the general assembly of the AAQS.
The council may grant ad hoc observer status
to other bodies or individuals for all or part of a
general assembly meeting. Only delegates and
Institution Members of the council present at the
general assembly meeting may vote. The president,
secretary general and treasurer and the observers
may not vote but the president shall have a casting
vote in the event of an equal number of votes being
cast.
Achievements To Date
In spite of the constraints of limited resources, the
AAQS has nevertheless achieved the setting up of
the following:
• A constitution with by-laws (revised in 2014)
• A mission statement
• A code of conduct
• An active web page (www.aaqs.org)
• Model documentation for use in Africa:
• A guide to elemental estimating and analysis for
building works 2013
• Publication of pricing data for the various
countries where the AAQS has Institution
Members (an on-going process)
• The PROCSA generic client / consultant
professional services agreement (prepared in
collaboration with other bodies)
• The AAQS has adopted the SAPOA method for
measuring floor areas in buildings, but only in
respect of the definition of rental and sales areas
• A standard method of measurement for building
works for Africa (to be released early in 2015)
• Document entitled : Organising an AAQS meeting
and associated conference / seminars
• Agreement on the use of FIDIC conditions of
contract or the various local building agreements
• Recognition by quantity surveyors throughout the
member countries of AAQS
• In recent years AAQS meetings and associated
seminars / congresses have been held in
Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban (South
Africa), Abuja and Calabar (Nigeria), Nairobi
and Mombasa (Kenya), Windhoek (Namibia),
Mauritius, Accra (Ghana), Maputo (Mozambique),
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Kampala (Uganda),
Gaborone (Botswana), Malawi, Mbabane
(Swaziland), Livingstone (Zambia) and Maseru
(Lesotho)
• A regular newsletter
• Institution Membership as well as Practice
Membership
Source: www.aaqs.org
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News Round-up
July 2015
Global Coalition formed to unify construction
measurement standards
Source: www.rics.org
More than 30 professional bodies from around the world met
at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C.
(16 – 17 June 2015) to launch a major initiative which seeks
to create international standards in construction measurement.
The International Construction Measurement Standards
(ICMS) Coalition, established by non-profit organisations
representing professionals in more than 140 countries, aims to
create overarching international standards that will harmonise
cost, classification and measurement definitions in order to
enhance comparability, consistency and benchmarking of
capital projects.
In an industry projected to be worth a staggering $15 trillion
by 2025, inconsistency in something as fundamental as
construction measurement and reporting can create huge
uncertainty, misunderstanding, and risk.
Seventeen organisations have already signed the declaration
to become joint members of the ICMS Coalition including the
Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS),
Ghana Institute of Surveyors (GhIS), Africa Association of
Quantity Surveyors (AAQS) and the Nigerian Institute of
Quantity Surveyors (NIQS).
Budget: Works & Transport sector takes lion’s
share
(www.monitor.co.ug – 12/06/15)
Analysis of the recently presented National Budget reveals that
Transport and Infrastructure was on top with UGX 3.3 Trillion
for the next financial year 2015/2016 which represents 18.2
per cent of the total UGX 23 Trillion resource envelopes. It
has been argued that “the competitiveness of our private sector
remains constrained by infrastructure gaps due to unreliable
electricity and an inadequate rail and road networks. These
gaps ultimately increase the cost of doing business.” Therefore,
“allocations have been made to strategic choices that will help
us attain middle income status,” among which the transport
sector—roads and railway—is leading.
The government is targeting to upgrading 400km of roads from
gravel to tarmac roads, reconstructing and rehabilitating 250km
of old paved roads, and undertaking routine mechanized
maintenance on 3,000 kilometres of paved roads. The
allocation to transport will also be used for routine mechanized
maintenance of 12,500 km of unpaved roads, and periodic
maintenance on 2,000 km of unpaved roads.
A breakdown of the purse is as follows: Works ministry (UGX
928 Billion); Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) (UGX.6
Trillion); Uganda Road Fund (UGX 417 Billion); District Roads
Rehabilitation(PRDP&RRP)(UGX35Billion);NorthernCorridor
Project (UGX 179 Billion); and KCCARoad Rehabilitation Grant
(UGX 135 Billion).
Lake Victoria’s Floating Island in Uganda!
(www.monitor.co.ug)
The first half of June had a story of a mysterious floating island
on Lake Victoria. Since it was reported, the island has migrated
from one site to another, mainly between Ggaba landing site,
Port Bell - Luzira and Miami Beach. This is not the first time
this phenomenon is reported – it has happened before, and
will recur for as long as Lake Victoria exists, and conditions
are ripe for land to detach from the mainland and float. The
level of certainty pertaining to the recurrence of floating islands
on Lake Victoria demonstrates the view that there is nothing
superstitious about these events.
Floating islands on lakes are not a new thing. You can now find
more information about this phenomenon in our local press and
widen your understanding of your environmental science.
Uganda tipped on emulating Dubai property
market
(www.newvision.co.ug - 27/06/15)
Uganda needs to work on strong regulations if the property
market is to become as competitive as the United Arab
Emirates’, Nishat Bandali, the Chief Executive Officer of
Dubai’s Candour Real Estate has advised while at an event
in Kampala commemorating a partnership between Knight
Frank Uganda and Candour Real Estate. He attributes UAE’s
success to stringent rules and regulations in buying assets to
protect the buyer’s rights. Moses Dennis Lutalo, the Head of
Property Management commercial and Residential at Knight
Frank Uganda reiterated why Uganda needs more stringent
regulations: “When you are operating in an environment with
no regulation, you are exposing the investor to a lot risk. We
do not have a property index in Kampala, if someone came
and asked for a trend in the performance of properties over the
years, you are not going to give that data with a certain level of
precision,” he said.
Recently, Daudi Migereko, the Minister of Lands, Housing and
Urban Development has said the business of real estate in
Uganda must be streamlined, advocating for strict conditions
for qualifications and requirements for one to participate in the
business of real estate. “Some of the confusion that we are
having in the land registry is because anybody wakes up, sees
a piece of land, and says I am the agent for that land.”
Mango trees, green energy and why East
African planners must listen to the Pope
(www.theeastafrican.co.ke - 27/06/15)
When the pope, the world’s leading moral authority, issues an
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encyclical addressing the looming dangers of climate change
and carbon emissions, it’s time for grown-ups in the room to
take serious note. The Laudato Si encyclical’s scope is broad,
perhaps the hardest hitting single climate document by a non-
activist leader yet. It addresses an array of climate issues in
a moral light: Development aid and energy access, carbon
trading, historical responsibility, the slow pace of political action
and the contribution of rampant consumerism to environmental
degradation.
So, though the regions’ leaders are used to such harassment
from environmentalists, it is another thing altogether to hear
sermons from the pulpit about putting the brakes on fossil fuel
development especially when church leaders speak of the
“moral duty” to change environmentally incorrect behaviour.
But how ironic that, as the Holy See rings in the end of the fossil
fuel era, East African countries are poised to begin it!
Today, as South Africa runs on it and Mozambique exploits
massive fields, East Africa is investing in coal-fired power
plants for large portions of its electricity budget. Kenya and
Uganda are looking to build refineries and pipe petroleum from
underground reserves to the industrial developments at the
Coast. Indian Ocean gas wells are being drilled from Beira to
Lamu.
Today, as global CO2 concentrations spiral rapidly towards
levels beyond internationally agreed budgets, the thinking is
changing. Decreasing costs of renewable energy are changing
the rhetoric:The new talk is about leapfrogging carbon-intensive
infrastructure and moving directly to green economies.
Cost of living set to rise as regional currencies
fall against the dollar
(www.theeastafrican.co.ke - 09/05/15)
East Africans face hard times ahead with the cost of living set
to rise as a consequence of local currencies’ poor performance
against the dollar. The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings have
been worst hit, shedding nearly double what the other two
East African currencies — the Tanzanian shilling and Rwandan
franc — have lost against the dollar in the first quarter of the
year. The Kenyan shilling is expected to remain fragile, driven
principally by the state of the current account and notably a
hangover of deterioration of the balance of payments. Tanzania
and Uganda shillings may remain weak against the dollar ahead
of the elections slated for this year and next year respectively.
In Rwanda, the franc is expected to further weaken in 2015
because of its large current account deficit coupled with a
stronger dollar. Analysts expect the demand for imports across
the region to grow faster than that for the region’s exports,
driven in part by the low oil prices that will propel increased
liquidity across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Engineers want law on construction contracts
(www.monitor.co.ug - 01/07/15)
Local construction companies risk being pushed out of business
if government does not quickly pass the Uganda Construction
Industry Commission Bill, (UCICO) 2012, engineers and
builders have said. The UCICO Bill aims at enhancing local
participation and providing funds for development of the industry
through a levy on every project. Speaking at a networking party
at Kampala Serena Hotel recently, the engineers and builders
under their umbrella body Uganda National Association
of Building & Civil Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC),
said the law would promote local content in the construction
industry, which is currently dominated by foreign companies.
“Having a law that regulates awarding of contracts will increase
participation of local construction companies in infrastructure
development. It will also help to create more jobs, invest more
money and increase tax revenue,” said Mr Michel Mivule Pinto,
the UNABCEC executive director. However, he acknowledges
that there are some projects local companies cannot handle
but the foreign companies should be compelled to work hand in
hand with local contractors. He also disclosed that UNABCEC
offers technical courses for construction professionals such as
Estimating and Costing and Construction Site Management.
Railway project finally kicks off
(www.monitor.co.ug - 29/06/15)
The preliminary geo-technical investigations and survey work
on the $3.3 billion (about Shs10.6 trillion) new standard gauge
railway [SGR] project has finally been flagged off. Prime
Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, during the ground breaking
ceremony held in Tororo on Friday, appealed to all Ugandans
along the route to accept compensation for the land that is
required for the project. He also tipped the private sector to
strategically harness the opportunities the project brings, both
during and after the construction, as the work is expected to
employ 150,000 people. The SGR will be constructed by the
Chinese Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) in partnership
with the ministry of works and the UPDF.
New multibillion heart and cancer hospital in
offing
(www.monitor.co.ug – 24/06/15)
The Henley Property Developers Limited, a sister company to
Picfare industries is to construct a heart and cancer hospital
in Kirindi Kigo, in Wakiso district. The construction work that
is expected to cost over Shs40bn is slated to start in July or
August 2015, according to Mr Caleb Ainebingi the group
spokesperson. The hospital is intended to save Ugandans the
cost of flying abroad for heart and cancer treatment, and is
expected to be completed within 3 years.
Uganda Cancer Institute 2013 data shows that for the last three
years,thenumberofcancerpatientsshotupfrom1,200to2,800
with more than 60 per cent of the patients showing advanced
cases of the ailments. The Uganda Heart Institute records have
demonstrated a 500 per cent increase in outpatient attendance
due to heart-related conditions from 2002.
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D e f e c t i v e
c o n s t r u c t i o n
work, whether
the result of
inadequate design,
faulty workmanship or poor materials - or some
combination of these things - is a frequent cause
of legal disputes. Kevin Barrett advises, through
his book, “Defective Construction Work”, that it
is important that the project team possesses a
good working knowledge of their responsibilities
and liabilities. This article looks at Barrett’s
perspective on the position of Quantity Surveyors
when it comes to defects in construction work.
Definition of a “Defect”
There have been several definitions of a “Defect”,
including: “the non-fulfilment of intended
requirements” (Josephson & Hammarlund,
1999); “A lack or absence of something essential
to competence” (Tate V. Latham & Son, 1987);
“Anything which renders the plant, etc. unfit for
the use for which it is intended” (Yarmouth v.
France (1897); “An imperfection or shortcoming”
(Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th Edition); and in the
context of construction work, “something that
does not conform to the agreed specification”.
The elusive definition is matched only by the
variety of terms used to describe defects:
disconformity, non-conformity, non-compliant
and incomplete, to mention just a few. For
example, work can be complete but nonetheless
defective, unfit for use yet not be defective in the
sense that someone can be held responsible for
its unfitness.
Therefore, one can conclude that defects come
in many guises, as do the terms used to describe
them.
Qualitative Defects
One of the guises is the classification of defects
qualitatively according to: work (including
design) or materials not of acceptable quality;
work (including design) or materials that are
in themselves of acceptable quality, but do not
conform to specifications or the design brief;
and work that is incomplete.
Patent and Latent Defects
Sometimes the guises are concerned with
whether defects are patent or latent, and
therefore relate to discoverability. A defect
is patent if it is open or visible to the eye;
observable, whether or not actually observed. On
the other hand, a defect is latent if it is hidden,
not observable; a concealed flaw or a failure
in work or materials to conform to contract
specifications in a respect not apparent on
reasonable examination (in Rotherham v. Frank,
1996). It is therefore important to uncover all
defects as early as possible especially during
the defects liability period. Barrett argues that
“defects are not latent if discoverable by the
exercise of due diligence”.
Effect of Defects
Defects affect the value of work done in terms
of the obligation to pay and the right to receive
payment; they prevent work being regarded as
complete; entitle the Client to compensation
and to the termination of a contract either with
the Contractor or the Consultant(s).
Why should the Quantity Surveyor be
concerned with Defects?
Although Architects and Engineers often,
though not exclusively take the lead role in
relation to the avoidance and detection of
defects on projects, their duties do not operate
to the exclusion of similar duties being imposed
on other consultants, such as Project Managers,
Quantity Surveyors, Clerks of Works and
Engineers’ Representatives. These professionals
may also be liable if their Client suffers loss as a
result of defects that should have been, but were
not, detected.
Defective Construction Work
and the Quantity Surveyor.
Introduction
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Quantity Surveyors are engaged in the business
of costing and valuing construction work and
are habitually employed as cost consultants.
They carry out a similar role for contractors and
their sub-contractors and are also employed by
funders to represent their interests in relation
to the financial aspects of projects. They are
skilled in the preparation of bills of quantities
and they often make significant contribution to
the development of specifications.
It is their detailed knowledge of technical
building construction that places them in a
unique position to protect the interests of their
clients when defects arise, and in this respect,
Quantity Surveyors tend to play a pivotal
role when undertaking interim valuations of
work in progress for the purpose of interim
payments. Furthermore, their role in identifying,
recommending and sourcing materials for
inclusion in specifications and bills of quantities
requires that they must exercise reasonable skill
and care when doing so. This also makes them
the preferred professionals to undertake the role
of CDM Co-ordinator under the Construction
(Design and Management) (CDM) regulations,
where such regulations are mandatory (United
Kingdom). They are then bound to discharge the
duties of designers under the CDM regulations,
as well as being bound to report dangers of
which they become aware.
An interim valuation of work in progress is
required by most model conditions of contract
to represent the value of work properly done and
of satisfactory materials supplied. The starting
point for an interim valuation will, generally, be
the application submitted by the Contractor, but
it is only the starting point. In the absence of a
visit to site, the Contractor’s application has to
be taken on trust, as to both the quantity and
the quality of work done. However, enquiry of
the Architect or other consultants may reveal
dissatisfaction with the quality of work done, and
disagreement with the quantities. Although in a
majority of cases it could be the Architect’s duty
to notify the Quantity Surveyor in advance of any
work which has been classified as defective, so
as to give the Quantity Surveyor the opportunity
of excluding it (refer to Sutcliffe v. Thackrah
[1974] AC 727 HL), one cannot rule out liability
for including for payment such defective work,
falling on quantity surveyors.
Although in Sutcliffe v. Thackrah (1974), the
Architect was at fault for not informing the
Quantity Surveyor of defects of which he was
aware, which resulted in the contractor, who
subsequently became insolvent, being overpaid,
it does not follow that the Quantity Surveyor is
always absolved because the Architect noticed
but failed to inform him of defects - Quality
issues are not exclusively the preserve of the
Architect or Engineer.
Indeed, whenever the Quantity Surveyor is
obliged to inspect the works for purposes of
preparing a valuation, he/she should identify
not only the quantity of work done but also
its quality, and should independently exclude
any non-conforming work from the valuation,
implying that Quantity Surveyors ought to apply
their knowledge of construction technology
when valuing work. They should also adopt an
appropriate level of rigour, which will depend
on a variety of factors such as the importance,
value and complexity of the particular item
of work and the general level of confidence in
the competence of the contractor and his sub-
contractors.
It would be careless of a Quantity Surveyor not to
be appropriately rigorous and that carelessness
could result in a liability to compensate the
Client for losses suffered as a result of careless
failure to identify or to make the proper enquiries
necessary to identify patent defects that a
reasonably competent Quantity Surveyor would
have identified.
Tom Joseph Mukasa
BSc (Building Economics), MSc (Construction Project
Management), ICIOB, MRICS
Further Reference:
Barrett, K. (2008) Defective Construction Work and the
Project Team, Wiley-Blackwell, United Kingdom.
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4. Owori Dan
5. Kalyebi Jonathan
6. Luwa Geoffrey Loum
7. Sabiiti Spencer Oyes
8. Namuswa Doreen Kagoda
9. Emer Stephen Ray
10. Kengingo Viola
11. Okema James Henry
12. Kabuye Emmanuel
13. Tusiimire Maurice Baitwababo
14. Ssemadaali Nalwanga Annet
15. Ashabahebwa Brian Pliers
16. Akankwasa James Ravens
17. Mugisha Julius Andrew
18. Tamale Diana Nagawa
19. Allan Timothy Kisawo Lwanga
20. Precious Zumbika Lwanga
21. Natukunda Elizabeth Mwebesa
22. John Muhumuza Kakitahi
Graduates
1. Kigambo Alex Daniel
2. Akule George Ndei
3. Habyarimana Paul
4. Biko Ismail
5. Mwinyi Hassan
6. Muhumuza Irene Peace Bakubi
7. Kato Peter
8. Lukanga Richard
9. Ddembe Ismail
10. Abalo Irene Khauka
11. Batange Jonathan
12. Mukasa Tom Joseph
13. Tumusiime Rebecca
14. Muhenda George Bigyega
15. Nalwoga Joanitor
16. Muwooya Daniel
17. Muguwa Deogratias
18. Sande William
19. Emilu Martin
20. Anguyoz Francis Boroa
21. Semanda Julius
22. Olwenyi Jude
23. Masambu Hillary
24. Atwine Davis Baryahika
25. Byekwaso Pius
26. Kidega Emmanuel
27. Musiimenta Dickson
28. Mutyaba Francis
29. Kateregga Denis
30. Lutaaya Cynthia Kabiite
31. Lugaajju Nalumansi Milly Claire
32. Olobo Samuel
33. Kabita Geofrey
Fellows
1. Paul Byoma Byabagambi
2. George W. Kasibante Lukwandwa
3. Nathan R. Behangana
4. Abel Bikandema
5. Virgil Omeke Idusso
6. Cyprian Inyangat Igulot
7. Marcellus Orando
8. Abraham Rugumayo
9. David W. R. Rwanika
10. Emmanuel Male
11. Ssekayiba S. B. Nyanzi
12. D. K. Ntwatwa
13. William Kiwagama
14. Charles Muganzi
15. Victor Odongo
16. Mulindwa Ibrahim
17. Kaheru Philip
18. Tom Senfuma
19. Roger Allen
20. Okello Mathew
21. Sheila Kaijuka
Professional Members
1. Patricia Musisi
2. Eridad Nyanzi
3. Henry M. Kibunja
4. Giles Okot Odongo
5. Charles Mpwabe
6. Mungati Maery Bisiikwa
7. Bayo Eric Samuel
8. Mukasa Philip Arthur
9. Kiwu Ben Rogers
10. Sendikwanawa Wilson John
11. Kato Patrick
12. Walubi Oscar
13. Bakayana Abby
14. Kibwami Nathan
15. Manyansi Joab Barudi
16. Mpaata Philly
17. Kaigia Solomon
18. Laker Irene Kitara Luguza
19. Mugyenyi Barbra
20. Nyakoojo Andrew
21. Tibagala Proscovia
22. Mpagi Richard Mugera
23. Banyanga Raymond
Professional Associates
1. Mutalya Hudson
2. Wamalwa Emmanuel Mumu
3. Tayebwa Duncan
34. Kyeswa Simon
35. Nambi Susan
36. Okwanga Nalule Racheal Pamela
37. Irumba Leonard Reagan
38. Egwar Moses Ogwal
39. Ngumisirize Fredrick
40. Angulo Okiring
41. Kanagwa Pamela
42. Mulindwa Joseph
43. Okello Thomas
44. Kyokusiima Babra
45. Nakabinga Ritah
46. Birungi Rachel Grace
47. Mujunga Cornelius James
48. Mwebaze Edson
49. Mukwana Ronald Samuel
50. Edweu Patrick
51. Isingoma Maurice
52. Ayebare Tom Rukundo
53. Dr. Sengonzi Ruth Nakayiki
54. Tabaruka Robert Jessy
55. Tugumenawe Isaiah
56. Mugume Nicholas
57. Kakumba Moses
58. Semugenyi George
59. Byaruhanga Stuart Robert
60. Watera Catherine Mugenyi
61. Kiiza Semu Smith
62. Owor John Onyango
63. Nyanzi Robert
64. Biira Jackline
65. Menya Ronald
66. Rujumba Mark
67. Wamala Collin
68. Walakira Alex
69. Okello Thomas
70. Kiiza Ivan Buhiinza
71. Kiberu Godfrey
72. Twena John Wycliff
73. Wateya Michael
74. Nansamba Rose Lilian
75. Nasaazi Amina
76. Ndagire Tina
77. Kyozira Diana
78. Naluwairo Francis Mugabi
79. Senoga Gerald
80. Oparok Daniel Herbert
81. Ssenyondo Tom
82. Ainobushobozi Antony
Technicians
1. Mukyetema Moses Peter
