This document provides an introduction to the role of a quantity surveyor in the construction industry. It discusses that a quantity surveyor is responsible for cost planning and management to ensure projects are completed within budget. This includes preparing bills of quantities, evaluating tender offers, and allocating work to subcontractors. The document then outlines the typical scope of work for a quantity surveyor at different stages of a construction project, from pre-construction through final account. It also lists some of the drawings and documents that a quantity surveyor refers to when doing their work.

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2. WHO ARE THE PROFESSIONALS
WE NEED IN A CONSTRUCTION
SITE?

3. INTERIOR DESIGNER
ARCHITECT
ENGINEER
QUANTITY
SURVEYOR

5. RESPONSIBILIITIES OF A QUANTITY SURVEYOR

6. COST PLANNING
⍢ Budget estimating
⍢ Cost planning
⍢ Make sure project is kept
within budget

7. COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT
⍢ responsible for
overseeing many
different aspects of a
company
⍢ managing risks,
overseeing employee
performance,
negotiating contracts
& planning individual
projects

8. PROCUREMENT ADVICE
⍢ process includes
preparation and
processing of a demand
⍢ able to advise clients
⍢ determine if
operations will continue

9. VALUE ENGINEERING
⍢ minimise the cost of a
project
⍢ enhance value for money
while still achieving the
required standard and quality
⍢ promotes substitution of
materials & methods with
less expensive alternatives

10. PREPARE BILL OF
QUANTITIES
⍢ make cost feasibility
studies, establish
construction budget
⍢ objective of bill of
quantities :
- To provide sufficient info
on the quantities of
works to be done to allow
bids to be prepared
accurately

11. ALLOCATE WORK
TO SUBCONTRACTORS
⍢ interact with the site
employees and
employees from
subcontract organisations
⍢ value completed work
⍢ arrange payment
⍢ approve payments
made once the works are
done

12. SCOPE OF WORK & TASKS AT
DIFFERENT STAGES OF
CONSTRUCTION

13. PRE -
CONSTRUCTION

14. STAGE 1 :
ESTIMATING & COST ADVICE
Receiving instruction
from the employer,
advising on various
courses of action and
procedures to suit the
particular requirements
of the Project.
Financial design
criteria advice
Preliminary and
comprehensive
estimates of
construction
cost
Other cost advice

15. STAGE 2:
DOCUMENTATION AND
PROCUREMENT
• Preparing documents for procurement of
construction contracts
• Soliciting tender offers
• Financially evaluating and reporting on tender offers
• Examining and verifying priced documents

16. STAGE 3 :
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

17. Preparing the
procurement
documentation for
subcontracts
Examining and reporting
on tender offers for
subcontracts, including
financial comparisons
with budget.
Preparing
schedules of
predicted cash
flows.
Attending progress
meetings on site at
reasonable intervals to
suit the nature and size
of the Project in order
Attending other
meetings at reasonable
intervals to suit the
nature and size of the
Project
Preparing valuations
for the issue of
payment certificates
Preparing cost
estimates for
proposed variations
for Employer
decision-making.
Maintaining a running
financial management
statement and
monitoring against the
financial budget.
Proceeding with
preparing the
final account.
Adjudicating and
resolving the financial
and contractual aspects
of claims between the
Employer and the
contractor,

18. STAGE 4 :
FINAL ACCOUNT
Determining and
agreeing all
variations and
adjustments for
incorporation
into the final
account.
Agreeing and
finalizing all
subcontracts
and adjusting
against
provisional
sums.
Concluding
the final
account,
including
fluctuations in
costs (if
applicable).
Preparing and
presenting the final
account to the
Employer,
including any
necessary
reconciliations and
explanations
against the financial
budget.

19. DRAWINGS THAT A QS REFERS TO

20.  Project drawings provided by the architect, typically showing the floor plan ;elevations;
finish schedules; and details of moldings, cabinetry, doors, and other such matters
necessary for the builder to order the proper materials for construction.

21.  Drawings, usually prepared by a
structural engineers, of the design and
working drawings of a building’s

22.  An itemized list of materials, parts,
and labor (with
their costs) required to construct, maintain,
or repair a specific structure.
Bill of quantity is to:
 Assist with the agreement of the contract
sum with the successful tenderer.
 Provide a schedule of rates assisting with
the valuation of variations.
 Provide a basis for the valuation
of interim payments.
 Provide a basis for the preparation of
the final account.

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Confederation. (7th ed.). (1988). London: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
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Works.aspx
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