Professional Statements and Guidance Notes Flashcards

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Name 3 Professional Statements

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  • Conflict of Interest
  • Client Money Handling
  • Countering Bribery, Corruption, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
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Name 3 Guidance Notes

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  • Surveying Safely
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Lessons Learned
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Name 3 Black Book Guidance Notes

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  • Interim Payments and Valuations
  • Acceleration
  • Conflict Avoidance and Dispute Resolution
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What are the Red and Black Books?

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  • Black Books are suite of construction QS guidance notes

- Red Book is valuation equivalent, containing mandatory and guidance notes.

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What’s in the Conflict of Interest Professional Statement

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Split in to three parts:

1) Must Do - E.g. Identify and manage conflict of interest, informed consent etc.
2) General Advice - Think about if it’s the right thing to do even if you get informed consent.
3) Further details on specific areas, such as what informed consent looks like, and the definitions of the types of conflict.

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What’s in the Client Money Handling Professional Statement?

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Split in to two parts:

1) Must Do - General rules about keeping client money safe such as having ‘client’ in the account name.
2) Guidance Notes - Such as the various types of controls that could be put in place.

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What’s in the Countering Bribery, Corruption, Money Laundering and terrorist-financing Professional Statement?

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Split in to three parts:

1) Must Do - General must do rules, such as not accepting a bribe, keep hospitality log etc.
2) Guidance - Processes that should be put in place and best practice
3) Expanded Guidance - Details about PEPs and advice on further process that could be put in place such as whistleblowing

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What’s in the Asbestos Guidance Note?

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  • Explains duties of various parties under the law
  • Details types of asbestos and where they’re found
  • Cut through diagram of a house
  • Appendix 1 - Typical materials
  • Appendix 2 - Duty holder and responsibilities table
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What’s in the Surveying Safely Guidance Note?

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  • Risk Assessment methodology
  • Safe Person Concept
  • ESEAP Hierarchy of Risk Control
  • Client place of work and attending site
  • Fire Safety
  • General Management of Contractors and Subcontractors
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What’s in the Stakeholder Engagement Guidance Note?

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In conjunction with the APM, sets out 10 principles of engagement, including:

  1. Communication
  2. Consult Early and Often
  3. They’re Only Human
  4. Plan It
  5. Relationships are Key
  6. Simple, but not Easy
  7. Just Part of Managing Risk
  8. Compromise
  9. Understand what Success is
  10. Take Responsibility
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What’s in the Lessons Learned Guidance Note?

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General guidance on lessons learned such as:

  • Defining success and failure
  • Why are lessons not learned and remembered
  • Why projects fail (governance, ownership, vision)
  • Not to focus solely on the bad
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What’s in the Conflict Avoidance and Dispute Resolution Guidance Note?

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  • How best to avoid dispute
  • Three pillars of dispute resolution
  • Details on the specific processes
  • Details on contract processes
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What’s in the Interim Valuation and Payments Guidance Note?

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  • Explanation of processes
  • Diagrams showing the payment timescales
  • How it’s done under different contracts and the schedule for construction contracts
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What’s in the Acceleration Guidance Note?

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  • Acceleration as a principle and what it means
  • What to look out for (H&S, efficiency etc.)
  • How it’s administered in different contracts such as it not being a guarantee in some cases
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