• What the builder wants from his professional team, all within the terms of an equitable contract.
• Win the heart of your builder's estimator and you win yourself a happy contract. Based on many years of experience on the country's finest buildings, this talk looks at what worked well, where, what did not and why?
• What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? How do you intend to do it?

Clear answers to these questions are essential before preparing the tender documentation (Bills of Quantities, Schedules of Works, Specification of Workmanship and Materials, SMM and NBS, pre-contract consultancy and budget price, cost control during the contract, liability, responsibility and accountability). 

Speaker: Ian Constantinides, formerly of St Blaise Ian trained as a materials scientist with the Atomic Energy Authority before founding St Blaise Ltd in 1982, one of the country's leading firms working in Historic Building Repair and Conservation. Ian teaches in the UK and abroad. As a freelance consultant, he is involved in all aspects of Historic Building Repair, including The Turquoise Mountain Foundation and its regeneration of what little is left of the ancient heart of war-ravaged Kabul.