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RICS has written the AI rules. Now try doing the work.

The real test is whether a capable surveyor can use real project information responsibly, without turning the time saved into paperwork or a search for permissions that nobody can explain.

Artificial Intelligence

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19 Oct 2026

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11 Oct 2026

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Britain Built the Qualifications. Not the System.

Germany makes employers help create skilled workers. Japan records what workers actually do. Singapore gives skill a commercial value. Malaysia registers the construction workforce. China reserves major project responsibilities for registered professionals. Britain has qualifications, cards and professional bodies, but has never quite joined them together.

It’s on Unifier

When the client’s software outranks the contract, everyone else becomes the client’s unpaid back office.

AI is a bullshit machine, and construction is feeding it

The industry has found a machine that can turn fragmented project records into confident answers, then confused confidence with truth.

Artificial Intelligence

Qatar needs a contract suite, not another amended Red Book

A Qatar-adapted NEC family could give the market something it rarely has today: a proper choice between fixed price, remeasurement, target cost, cost reimbursement, term service and genuinely small works contracts.

Commercial Intelligence

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

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.

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

RICS has written the AI rules. Now try doing the work.

Practical field notes

Britain Built the Qualifications. Not the System.

It’s on Unifier

AI is a bullshit machine, and construction is feeding it

Qatar needs a contract suite, not another amended Red Book

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

POMI has had its day

The mythical labour month

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

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