CHANDIKA NUWAN DASSANAYAKA, Senior Quantity Surveyor/Managing Quantity Surveyor/Contracts Manager/Commercial Manager

CHANDIKA NUWAN DASSANAYAKA

Senior Quantity Surveyor/Managing Quantity Surveyor/Contracts Manager/Commercial Manager

Qserve Qatar

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Project Management in Construction
Experience
22 years, 2 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 2 months

Senior Quantity Surveyor/Managing Quantity Surveyor/Contracts Manager/Commercial Manager at Qserve Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since August 2014

Chartered Quantity Surveying Consultant Company.
Projects -
1) Road and drainage project - Construction of E-Ring Road - For Ashghal (SALFO - Worked for supervision consultant) - Around QR.255 Mns.

2) Roads and drainage project - Construction of ISF Road Project - For Ashghal (SALFO - Worked for supervision consultant) - Around QR.220 Mns.

3) Port Project - Al Ruwais Sea Port project - For Ashghal (COWI A/S Worked for supervision consultant) - Over QR.800 Mns.

4) Stadium project - Construction of Al Rayyan Stadium project - L & T (Larsen & Tuubro Limited) - Worked for Main Contractor - Over QR. 2.00 Bns.

5) Horse Race Complex - Construction of Horse Owner Complex at Al Khor - For Ministry of Culture & Sports (Dar Al-Handasah - Worked for supervision consultant) - Over QR.400 Mns.

6) Hotel Buildings - Construction of City Center Expansion Project (Three Hotels - Worked for the client).

Duties: -
• Preparation of financial report, status report and KPI report and submit to client.
• Preparation of cost estimates to raise Engineer Instructions (SIs).
• Preparation of site instructions (SI) and submit to the client with backups.
• Evaluate the contractor’s claims and provide recommendations.
• Manage Quantity Surveyors.
• Evaluate contractor’s monthly payment and provide recommendation to the client.
• Reply to contractor’s various letters as per the conditions of contracts.
• Advice the Resident Engineer / Project Manager and the client on contractual issues.
• Finalise sub-contractors based on the quotations and technical details.
• Conduct valuation meetings with all parties and attend to progress meetings.
• Negotiation/Discussions with contractors for variations, new rates, day works etc.
• Takeoff quantities from drawings for variations and prepare variation BOQs.

Senior Quantity Surveyor at Haseeb Rasoul FZC
  • Iraq - Sulaymaniyah
  • October 2012 to July 2014

Haseeb Rasoul FZC (Fit-out and FF & E Company in UAE) - Senior Quantity Surveyor.
Projects - Involved for both pre and post contract quantity surveying works for three hotel projects and also a luxurious villa project in Kurdistan, Iraq.

Duties: -
• Preparation of cost reports and payment applications on a monthly basis.
• To attend meetings with the main contractor and the client.
• Preparation of BOQs and price for new packages.
• Notify, prepare, negotiate and finalize claims and variations.
• Prepare and agree on the final accounts.
• Sub-contract payment administrations.
• Evaluation of sub-contractors’ quotations and advise procurement team with the budget.
• Value engineering works and cost value reconciliation work.
• Manage different trades and document controllers.
• Advice senior project manager on contractual issues.

Quantity Surveyor at Trafalgar Technical Service Limited
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2006 to October 2012

Trafalgar Technical Service Limited (This is one of the leading Consultant Quantity Surveyors, Project Managers and Cost and Claims Consultants companies in the UAE) - Quantity Surveyor

Major Projects
Post Contract Project - Jebel Ali Airport (Five and half years)
Pre Contract Projects - Dubai Airport project, Trump Tower and some Villa projects in UAE.

Duties: -
• Preparation of financial reports and payment certificates.
• Conduct valuation meetings with all parties and attend progress meetings.
• Preparation of cost estimates to raise Engineer Instructions.
• Negotiations/discussions with contractors for variations.
• BOQ preparation and working out quantities from drawings.
• Manage Quantity Surveyors.
• Quantity take-off and BOQ preparation.
• Preparation of cost plan reports.

Quantity Surveying at CASTLE CONSTRUCTION
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2006 to October 2006

Main responsibilities:

• Working out quantities from the drawings
• Request for supplier’s quotations and Budgetary pricing
• Evaluation of Sub Contractors’ Quotations. (Comparison Statements)
• Establishing databases for quantity and information requests
• Preparation of required program of works
• Preparation of BOQs
• Pricing of BOQs according to pricing preambles.
• Review of Contract Documents, Revision of Clauses and contract award by client
• Preparing and finalizing subcontracts
• Negotiate extra work rates with Consultant’s Quantity Surveyors

Quantity Surveyor and Asst Enginner at F&G Property Developers (Pvt) Ltd (Ceylinco Group)
  • Sri Lanka
  • January 2002 to March 2006

Main responsibilities:

• Preparation of Engineering Estimate for new projects.
• Attending to meetings, evaluating of contractors monthly applications for ongoing projects.
• Working out quantities from drawings

Education

Master's degree, Project Management in Construction
  • at University of Salford Manchester
  • April 2017
Bachelor's degree, Quantity Surveying
  • at University of Reading
  • November 2011
Diploma, Civil Engineering
  • at Institute of Engineering Technology
  • December 2005

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors (RICS)
  • Member
  • November 2017
Institute of Incorporated Engineers in Sri Lanka
  • Member
  • February 2016
The Chartered Institute of Building
  • Member (MCIOB)
  • November 2016
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
  • MAIQS
  • April 2016

Training and Certifications

Successfully Completed Advance Sound Contract Administration Course conducted by Prof. Sam (Training)
Training Institute:
Sound Contract Administration
Date Attended:
February 2016
Duration:
15 hours
Successfully Completed Sound Contract Administration Course conducted by Prof. Indrawansa Samarathun (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
December 2011