# Event Details - **Event Name**: The QS Shortage: What It'll Cost You and Your Projects in 2026 - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for this free live event in Birmingham to learn the real cost of the QS shortage and what smart companies are doing about it.About this EventWhat it is...An insight-led session exploring the real commercial pressures shaping the QS market today, including the ongoing shortage and its impact on project delivery. Built for experienced commercial leaders, the session combines clear market insight with open discussion, bringing together client-side and contractor perspectives across multiple sectors. Everything shared is rooted in real-world commercial experience and focused on helping attendees make better, more strategic decisions in a constrained market.Why we’re running it...The QS shortage isn’t coming.It’s already here, and it’s getting worse.By 2026, the gap between demand for commercial capability and available QS talent will be wider than most businesses are prepared for. Not because there aren’t people, but because:Fewer QSs are entering the professionExperienced QSs are leaving earlierProject complexity is increasing faster than capabilityAnd most businesses are still treating this as a recruitment problem, not a commercial riskThe result isn’t just hard hiring.It’s:Projects delayedMargins eroded quietlyDisputes escalatingTeams stretched thinMost leaders feel this pressure but very few have stepped back to properly understand why it’s happening and what it will cost them over the next 18–24 months.That’s why we’re running this session.Last year, we brought commercial leaders together to talk openly about QS hiring and retention. The feedback was clear:“This completely changed how we think about the problem.”This time, we’re going further lifting the lens from hiring to the wider QS shortage and its impact on projects, margins, and delivery in 2026 and beyond.This is not a recruitment seminar.And it’s not a sales pitch.It’s a live, commercial briefing built on years inside the toughest commercial capability market in UK construction: Quantity Surveyors.We’ll share what we’ve learnt by operating at the sharp end seeing where projects succeed, where they quietly fail, and where the shortage is already biting hardest.The session will cover:Why the QS shortage exists (and why it’s structural, not cyclical)Where it shows up first on projects long before anyone resignsWhy traditional responses (more adverts, more money, more pressure) don’t workWhat leading companies are doing differently to protect delivery and marginThe system that works in a constrained market not to “win talent”, but to sustain commercial capabilitySome of this insight gets shared one-to-one.Some of it gets learned the hard way.But it’s never shared in full, in one place.This session is the exception.And because it’s live, you decide where we go deeper your projects, your teams, your risks. The answers you leave with will be the ones that matter to you.Who should attendThis session is designed for people who feel the pressure commercially, not administratively:Commercial Directors & Commercial ManagersMDs / Owners accountable for margin and deliveryOperations & Pre-Construction leaders running QS-heavy teamsHR / People leaders who partner closely with Commercial and OpsIf QS capability affects your projects, this is for you.You’ll walk away withA clear understanding of the QS shortage why it exists and why it will intensify by 2026Visibility on where commercial capability breaks projects, not just hiring processesInsight into what leading companies are doing now to avoid being caught shortPractical frameworks you can apply immediately regardless of whether you’re hiring right nowLive answers to your challenges because the conversation is shaped in the room https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/1ad91f40-e51b-11f0-98de-115137f96074-rimg-w1200-h630-dca6a6a6-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/birmingham/the-qs-shortage-what-itll-cost-you-and-your-projects-in-2026/100001977705845422 - **Event Categories**: workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fthe-qs-shortage-what-itll-cost-you-and-your-projects-in-2026-tickets-1977705845422 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Birmingham - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The Victoria Square WorkRooms - **lat**: 52.4790654 - **long**: -1.9030099 - **full address**: The Victoria Square WorkRooms, 1 Victoria Square, Birmingham, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: clearnorth. 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