BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying and Construction

Program Overview

This cost management program prepares students for careers in construction, covering project stages from feasibility to maintenance. An optional industry placement year allows students to gain practical experience and contribute to professional qualifications. Graduates may pursue Chartered Membership (MRICS) or postgraduate studies.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course focuses on controlling and managing the costs of construction projects; you could be involved with any stage of a project, from feasibility, design and construction, through to extension, refurbishment, maintenance and even demolition. The course will help you gain an understanding of the technical aspects of construction over the whole life of a building or facility. You are likely to be involved in a range of services, from cost consultancy to contract management. In this program you will have the opportunity to advance your professional skills through an optional industry placement between years two and three. The placement year can count as part of the required experience for Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors professional status.

Careers:

Quantity surveyors are the cost managers of construction and work in all sectors of the construction industry. They are ideally placed to provide a wide range of services from preparing feasibility studies or development appraisals, procurement management, life cycle costing to conducting value engineering exercises.

Other:

Many of our students will work towards Chartered Membership (MRICS) status upon graduation, by gaining a further two years of practical training. While for others, the course provides a transition to postgraduate study.