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:- housing and industrial sites;
- retail and commercial developments;
- roads, rail and waterways.
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.
Qualifications
[Edit]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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