quantity surveying jobs
The functions of a consultant quantity surveyor (traditionally referred to as a professional quantity surveyor or PQS) are broadly concerned with the control of the cost on construction projects.
Cost engineering and quantity engineering jobs
Quantity surveying jobs look at the methods employed, which cover a range of activities that may include cost planning, value engineering, feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis, lifecycle costing, valuation, and cost estimation. Some senior quantity surveyors are known as construction economists, cost engineers or commercial managers. Cost engineering jobs are closely related to quantity surveying jobs.
Quantity surveyors control construction costs by accurate measurement of the work required, the application of expert knowledge of costs and prices of work, labour, materials and plant required, an understanding of the implications of design decisions at an early stage to ensure that good value is obtained for the money to be expended.
The technique of measuring quantities from drawings, sketches and specifications prepared by designers, principally architects and engineers, in order to prepare tender/contract documents, is known in the industry as 'taking off'.
Cost control in quantity surveyor jobs
The quantities of work taken off typically are used to prepare bills of quantities, which usually are prepared in accordance with a published standard method of measurement (SMM) as agreed to by the QS profession and representatives of the construction industry.
Many larger QS firms have their own in-house methods of measurement and most bills of quantities prepared today are in an abbreviated format from the one required by the SMM. Experienced surveyors would typcially facilitate all the skills available to minimise additional costs to project and maintain a first class service for customers
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