Architect’s Praise For Quantity Surveyors

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30445, 20 May 1964, Page 18

Architect’s Praise For Quantity Surveyors

Quantity surveyors were “rare birds,” Mr P. Pascoe, chairman of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, tbld guests at the New Zealand Quantity Surveyors’ Institute dinner last evening. Their task lay between the architect and the builder and wav to produce order in figures. They probably had more troubles than any other group in the building industry, he said. Quantity surveyors were “lucky” that their work formed part of a creative building industry. Mr Pascoe said that persons in the industry could become too close to it to see the

industry in its proper perspective. Time should be taken to stand apart and view what was happening around them as part of a growing history—history in the making. Other guests at the dinner included the Mayor (Mr G. Manning), the vice-chairman of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers (Mr 1. L. Holmes), the chairman of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Master Builders’ Association (Mr W. H. Smith), and the chairman of the Canterbury - Westland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Clerks of Works (Mr W. M. Sharp).