Quantity surveyors provide cost management services throughout construction projects. They estimate costs, prepare bills of quantities, and advise clients on procurement and contractual methods. The Quantity Surveyor Certified Board regulates the profession and consists of a president, registrar, secretary, and 16 members appointed by the Ministry of Works. Quantity surveyors' responsibilities include cost planning, estimating, tendering, and certifying payments during construction stages. They help control costs, resolve disputes, and ensure projects are delivered within budget.

1. GROUP 2

2. Quantity Surveyor

5. WHAT IS Quantity Surveyor
• Provide advices on procurement, contracts and
project cost management.
• Work as consultants or be employed by a
contractor or sub-contractor.
• Prepare Bills of Quantity from plans, describing
materials, items of work and quantity required

6. Quantity Surveyor Certified Board
The Board consists of a President, a Registrar, a Secretary and sixteen (16)
members appointed by the Minister of Works, Malaysia.
Act as stakeholder in a contract for consulting quantity surveyor services
to determine and regulate the professional conduct and ethics of the
quantity surveying profession
set up by an Act of Parliament
Quantity Surveyor Act 1967

7. 7
Services of Quantity
Surveyor
TENDERING
COST PLANNING
ESTIMATE &
COST
ADVICE
CONTRACTUAL
METHOD

8. Services of Quantity Surveyor
• Cost Planning
• To help the design team to keep within the budget
from start to the end of the project
• Help client keep track of the money flow in the project
• Estimating & Cost Advice
• Estimates and cost advice during all stages
of the development of a project
• knowledge of building and construction
economics enable quantity surveyors to
provide reliable cost advice.

9. Contractual Methods
• Advise client on the best form of contract for a
specific project.
• eg : contracts incorporating bills of quantities,
provisional bills of quantities and schedules of rates.
Tendering
•Process of proposal or bidding
before a project
•Calculating the cost and risk for the
project.

10. Responsibilities & Tasks at Different
Stages of Construction
• Monitor cost at different stages of project.
• Certify payment and invoices.
• Negotiating disputes.
• Advising on budgets and costs.
• Giving advice for disputes on contracts.

11. Daily Activities
Construction starts…
• Feasibility studies of a project
• Roughly estimate what’s involve in the project
• Study architect’s and engineers’ plans
• Identify cost and set overall budget
• Plan cost to help design team stay within the project
budget
(Valued Engineering)
• Final detailed estimate is prepared by Quantity
Surveyor and Architect

12. During Construction…
After Construction…
•Quantity Surveyor prepare statement of final account
(Records actual cost for all sections of job)
• Provide flow of cash data
• Client can arrange finances needed for each stage of project
• quantity surveyor assess cost effects when changes to project occur
• resolve disputes between clients, designers and building contractors

13. Stages that involve in cost planning during
design and construction
Tender
Reconciliation
Comparing tender price
with final cost
Post-Contract Cost Control
Controlling cost at different
stages of construction
Preliminary Estimate
Using research market price to
estimate cost of project
Cost Plan
Calculating project cost
according to elemental
analysis
Cost Check
Evaluating the work
done according to
cost

14. TYPE
OF
Preliminary Drawing
DRAWING
Tender Drawing
Contract DrawingAS-Built Drawing

15. Preliminary Drawing
• A rough design with less detail
• Can be used to estimate the budget of a project but not for actual
cost
• Can also be used to prepared cost plan

17. • A complete design with full details by Architects and
Structural engineer
• Comprise of architectural and structural drawings
• Can be used to prepare Bills of Quantities

18. STRUCTURAL DRAWING
By Structural Engineer
Column
Beam
• Commonly Between 2 column
Slab
(Floor)

19. Structural Drawing by Structural Engineer

20. Architectural Drawingby Architect
• cut through the building, showing foundation, framing, and
insulation details.

21. Description
& material
Rate
Unit
Example:
Concrete-m3
Formwork:m2
Rebar : Kg
Quantity
Total Cost
EXAMPLE OF BILLS OF QUANTITIES

22. Quantity Surveyors
SMM
• SMM: Standard method of
measurement
• Standardized reference for all
measurement works
• Provide solutions and improve
communications within the industry

23. Contract & Construction Drawing
•Same drawing as tender drawings
Contract Drawing = Construction
DrawingUsed to prepare contract
document
Used on site during construction

24. Construction Drawing

25. .
As-Built Drawing
• reflect all changes made in the specifications and working drawings during the
construction process, and show the exact dimensions, geometry, and location of
all elements of the work completed under the contract
.

27. Understand more about the
role of Quantity surveyor
They must also be sustainable in social
terms and add value to the quality
Increasing the efficiency of construction
work and reducing confrontation Vital contribution in economic recovery

28. Reference
Author:
Sandra Lee
William Trench
Andrew Willis
Title:
Willis′s Elements
of Quantity
Surveying
Title:
Willis’s Practice and
Procedure for the
Quantity Surveyor
Author:
Allan Ashworth
Keith Hogg

29. Reference
• http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/gardiner-theobald/sustainable-development-in-
the-construction-industry/conclusion.html#axzz3ZRcGuvn0
• http://www.academia.edu/466357/Importance_of_Quantity_Surveyors_for_publ
ic_sector_organisations_in_the_prevaling_recession
• http://www.nziqs.co.nz/What-is-a-QS
• https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/Q
uantitySurveyor.aspx
• http://constructionmanuals.tpub.com/14045/css/14045_44.htm