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Sheppz
Do you usually do contract admin on trad jobs? I know a lot of people lament the loss of influence but I'd really rather not. Heard from a (non-domestic) client about a year after we'd 'finished' a small project that they were still arguing over the final account. Very glad the QS was the CA on that one.
Pricing is a difficult one. There is some limited training in methods depending on where you study but it's very rare to find a designer who's actually skilled in it. Unless you're also the contractor, you're guessing what someone else will price it at, which introduces a different set of variables and some people think is pointless anyway. But of course if you're the client, especially an inexperienced one, you look to the designer to have some clue of what they're designing in relation to cost.