David looks at the pressures that globalisation brings to the skills of the 5D Quantity Surveyor and the need to up-skill our profession to effectively compete to create cost certainty and deliver leaner and better buildings.
Julie Jupp (Coordinator of the Digital Technologies stream in the BA Construction Project Management at University of Technology, Sydney) also talks about her vision for education to enable greater collaboration within industry to better ready students for the practical applications of BIM as a methodology.
While Rick Best (Discipline Leader for Construction Management and Quantity Surveying at Bond University, Gold Coast) addresses the need for the development of standard BIM content whilst continuing to establish programmes which bring industry and students together.