meetings

The CQSA meets six times a year at The Farmer's Club, located at 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL, which is close to Embankment Tube station and Charing Cross mainline station. Meetings generally take place on the fourth Friday* of January, March, May (AGM), June, September and November, except where Good Friday falls on the last friday of the month, or when the Monday following is a Public Holiday, then we meet on the third Friday of the appropriate month.

For the current meeting dates, please click here to go to the the bottom of this page.

Meetings are held over an excellent lunch with wine and preceded by a Speaker - all within a relatively informal schedule. 

The following is a sample menu from our January 2026 meeting:  Wines list

We gather at 12:30pm for drinks and sit down at 1:00pm for lunch and our Speaker. The meeting normally lasts until around 3:00pm.

Members are encouraged to invite professional colleagues and clients as guests. The only rule - imposed by the Farmers Club - requires meeting attendees to be smartly dressed in a jacket and tie.

Our meetings provide a time to network, to discuss business, the industry and the professions.

Past Speakers have covered a wide range of professional topics, including:

  • HS2 Infrastructure Cost Planning
  • Disaster Recovery in Business
  • The Worshipful Company of Constructors
  • The BCIS in 2023
  • 4D Project Programming
  • Acting as a Professional Witness
  • The BCIS new Carbon Costing Data Resource
  • BIM - Building Information Modelling
  • IPMS and ICMS
  • NEC4
  • Fire Safety Regulations
  • How to Spot a Lie
  • The Impact of Delay
  • Adjudication
  • Payment Notices
  • Contract Damages
  • Carbon Cost Estimating
  • Online Estimating
  • The Bribery Act
  • Capital Allowances