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What C++ can teach quantity surveyors about building an international standard

Why the rise of AI makes shared measurement rules, open data and regular releases more urgent

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POMI has had its day

What construction cost management must learn from POMI’s decline: why traditional bills of quantities and inherited spreadsheets produce poor data, and how structured classification and AI could improve measurement, benchmarking and procurement.

Quantity Surveying

The mythical labour month

What construction can learn from The Mythical Man-Month: why more labour does not always mean more progress, and how AI may improve coordination, productivity and decision-making.

Commercial Intelligence

The ledger balances, but no one knows what's in it

Why a balanced ledger may still fail commercial teams, how weak coding and late entries distort cost-plus reporting and claims, and how AI may improve cost capture, classification and control.

Commercial Intelligence