Driver Trett Digest Issue 25 - Flipbook - Page 10
FROM CONSTRUCTING
TO CONSULTING
George Dibble
Consultant
Bristol, Driver Trett UK
2023 marks my three-year anniversary with Driver Trett
and now feels like a fitting time to reflect upon my move
from project surveying into consultancy.
Rewind to 2019 and my working life was considerably
different to today. Clipboard in hand and hardhat on head, I
would happily wander the site as a Contractor’s QS, taking
progress photos, updating the current month's valuation, or
measuring the latest fanciful subcontractor variation. It was
an environment in which I felt comfortable, but, as time wore
on, I grew disillusioned with project surveying and felt that
my skills could be better utilised in an alternative role.
The last project I worked on had exposed me to the ins and
outs of contractual provisions and, as a result, I became much
more involved in how a contract was administered. It was an
unfamiliar battleground, something I had studied but not
experienced as a Contractor’s QS - contracts, after all, are
best left in the bottom drawer; aren't they?! The project was
challenging, and an interest in solid contract management
and understanding was cemented by a particularly proficient
Project Manager, who had a forensic understanding of the
conditions of the NEC.
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