Quantity Surveyor Employment and Job Opportunities
By Angela G. M.

A Quantity Surveyor has a very important job in the construction industry. Their job is to control costs. These include costs for the building, as well as the cost in hiring people. In order to be a Quantity Surveyor, one needs to be smart, know how to do math rather well, and of course have proper schooling and training.

When there is a job that a company is going to begin...

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Quantity Surveyor Trainee
By Angela G. M.

Are you a natural financial planner? Can you manage large projects, maintain quality standards, and work well within a set budget? A Trainee Quantity Surveyor strives to do all of the above with accuracy and economic skill.

So what does a Trainee Quantity Surveyor do exactly? Building projects, large and small, require someone who can minimize supply costs while maintaining the utmost quality. They provide professional ins...

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Basics of Taking Offs

As we know Taking Off, sometimes spelled as "taking-off" or "takeoff", is a main part for creating a BOQ in cost estimation process in construction industry. Quantity Surveyors/Estimators are use construction drawings and start taking off quantities of items they will need from those drawings in order to prepare a estimation. They can use drawings, either manually or electronically.

Take off happens in different ways,

• Some do manual takeoffs from field sketches
• Some d...

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QUANTITY SURVEYING PROGRAMME IN QATAR

A flexible mode part time study programme being now offered in Qatar leads to BSc (Hons) degree in Quantity Surveying awarded by University of Wolverhampton in UK. This study programme consists of 2 stages as follows.

     • Stage I – BTEC HND in Quantity Surveying awarded by Edexcel UK. Duration – 24 months (22-30 hours of lectures to  be covered per month on a flexible schedule).
     • Stage II – Top up de...

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Several Aspects of Surveying
By Piter Smith

Surveying is the process of taking measurements of feature on and occasionally above and below the earth's surface to determine their relative positions. It is a science of accurately determining the terrestrial position of points and the distances and angles between them. The practice may be more precisely described as land surveying to distinguish it from other forms of surveying like building surveying or quantity ...

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Benefits of Working With a Quantity Surveyor
By Chris Jenkinson

A quantity surveyor plays an integral part in the construction process of commercial property. Work can ultimately impact the total cost of a construction project. If in Yorkshire, a quantity surveyor Yorkshire consulting firm can help contractors and developers manage the costs related to architectural projects, including increasing the value received for the money spent on a proj...

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