Chartered Quantity Surveyor
Role of Quantity Surveyor
The role of a Quantity Surveyor. Known in the industry as a Construction Cost Consultant or Commercial Manager, their role is to keep a close eye on project finances and contractual relationships. They manage the contractual relationships between the various parties involved in any particular building project.
What does a Quantity Surveyor do?
- Advising on the potential of a site and working out what a client can afford to build, often termed ‘feasibility’.
- Presenting detailed information on the cost of particular elements of work on a periodic basis to enable payment for those works carried out to date. This process is known as ‘valuations’.
- Organizing the division of a project into its component work packages, then awarding these work packages to smaller, more specialized construction companies (known as subcontractors) and, in that process, finding out who offers the best deal.
- Dealing with contractual and legal matters.
- Managing costs to make sure that the initial budget isn’t exceeded.
- Arranging staff payments and, at the end of a job, settling the final accounts.
Chartered Surveyors are highly trained and experienced property professionals. Surveyors offer impartial, specialist advice on a variety of property related issues and the services which they provide are diverse.
Chartered Surveyors work in all fields of property and building consultancy. At the most basic level, their duties include valuing property and looking for structural defects in buildings. They also provide expert consultancy advice in property, construction and related environmental issues
Quantity Surveyor Importanace
- In construction works, one of the most important departments is Quantity Surveying.
- It is the place where All The Calculations related to Quantity, Time and cost takes place.
- Without that it’s very hard to survive in Construction Industry.
- The Role of Quantity Surveyor is very important starting from the project, till the Completion of Project.