A friend of mine asked me recently ‘when you are doing a building project how do you keep to budget?’ I thought that was an interesting question – and one with a lot of potential answers.

Like all good quantity surveyors I will preach about having a good contingency figure within your budget. The con...

If you are in the lucky position where you were going to spend over £100,000 on a new car then you will probably be shopping for a premium model (probably German), built in a clean modern factory by a trained workforce who are well supervised and highly motivated. Your new car will be backed by a wa...