I’m a Quantity Surveyor by profession and the job, now, is all about conflict and confrontation, just to try and get paid for what you’ve done. I’m now a consultant trying to get clients paid when they’ve been shafted by main contractors. There are really some nasty b******s out there who don’t...
Tell me about it. Up until four years ago I co-owned a specialist sub-contracting construction company. At one point we had two contracts where we were overdue £800k by over 90 days. Coincidentally one of them was on the Tyne Tunnel for Bouygues. Our operatives used to stay in a hotel in Whitley...