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There are many different types of surveyor:
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Building surveyors advise clients about the design and construction of new buildings and the maintenance, repair, renovation and conservation of existing ones. Clients can range from individual house owners to large commercial and industrial companies..
Your work as a surveyor would vary depending on the type of project, but would usually focus on three main areas: surveying, legal work, and planning and inspection. The typical day to day work of a building surveyor includes surveying properties, identifying structural defects and making recommendations for repairs; assessing damage for insurance and loss adjustment purposes, for example as a result of bad weather, fire or flooding; assessing dilapidation liability (who is responsible for building repair costs) and; advising clients on issues such as property boundary disputes.
Depending on the size of the company you work for, you may cover all of these and other work areas, or specialise in just one.
To qualify as a building surveyor you will need to complete a degree course accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), followed by a professional development course; or start in a trainee position with a surveying firm and study for qualifications whilst working.
Relevant degrees include: surveying, construction, civil engineering, building engineering.
If you have a non-accredited degree, you will need to take a postgraduate course in surveying. You can do this through a graduate traineeship once working or by studying full-time at an RICS-accredited university.
Land surveyors collect information and map out the shape of natural and artificial features on civil engineering and construction schemes, and use this data to develop site plans. Land surveyors work on road, tunnel and bridge building projects; land redevelopment, mining and quarrying; and the installation of power and water supply networks.
You may also be able to specialise in mapping inshore and offshore features, known as hydrographic surveying, which covers:
Graduates normally need to have attained a degree or professional qualification accredited by the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) to become a land surveyor. Relevant degree disciplines include: surveying; civil engineering; geomatics; and, geographical information science.
Quantity surveyors manage the costs of a building project, from design stage through to the building's completion. It is a quantity surveyor's main priority to make sure that projects meet legal and quality standards, and that building projects are good value for money.
Quantity surveyors work on:Most of the time a quantity surveyor's role will involve carrying out feasibility studies to estimate the costs of time, labour and materials; negotiating and drawing up bids for tenders and contracts and monitoring every stage of the construction process to ensure costs are in line with forecasts. It is also the quantity surveyors responsibility to ensure that all legal requirements are met with during construction projects.
To become a quantity surveyor you would usually need to have attained a degree approved by the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in a degree discipline such as: surveying; construction; civil engineering; structural engineering, etc. You could also study a degree which is acredited by The Chartered Institute Of Building (CIOB).
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