Title: Sustainable Building Services for Quantity Surveyors
Credits: 5
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The aim of this Building Services module will allow the student to establish the importance of building services in the production of successful buildings.
Title: Quantity Surveying Commercial Practice & Competences
Credits: 5
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The construction industry has become relational over time with many projects completed turnkey by single designing Builder/Developer entities. Some graduates will go on to become Developers in their own right. Supply chains have expanded and so have our roles. Many QS graduates work in roles such as Commercial manager, Project manager, Purchasing manager and Contracts manager along with a wide variety of roles with subcontractors/suppliers. Nearly half our work now are small refits... what builders refer to as special projects. The aim of this module is to integrate all the subjects done thus far, simulating a small project/need associated with a brown field, alteration/ refit/ renovation projects. This development will be conducted by a single designing Builder and with this project we will explore the versatility a QS brings to this type of role.
Title: Construction Law
Credits: 5
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The module aims to develop the student's knowledge, intellectual skills and competence to enable them to understand the nature of construction contracts within the context of the law of contract and tort. In addition the students will, through the examination of associated case law and legislation, develop an understanding of how construction contracts operate in practice.
Title: Project Administration
Credits: 5
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The aim of this module is to develop the learner's knowledge, intellectual skills and competence in the project administration of building and capital works projects.
Title: Offsite And Lean Construction For Quantity Surveyors
Credits: 5
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Title: Advanced Building Technology For Quantity Surveyors
Credits: 5
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Title: Advanced Measurement and Information Modelling
Credits: 10
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To provide the student with an understanding of standard systems of measurement for building works while developing their knowledge, skills and competence in the measurement, billing and tendering of domestic and commercial projects.
Title: Measurement And Information Modelling Introduction
Credits: 5
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Title: Cost Planning
Credits: 10
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The three points of the traditional project management triangle are Time-Cost-Scope. The cost is what ultimately determines the scope of what can actually be built. There is no use in a client spending money on Consultants/Construction drawings, if it is found, when these drawings go out to tender, that the project is over budget and cannot proceed as designed. Quantity Surveyors are tasked with providing this early cost advice. It is essential that this cost be determined at the earliest possible opportunity, and then again routinely as the design develops. It is this absence of design, or rather the evolution of design that makes the advice we provide a plan. We actually get to direct the design as it is advanced, we plan.
We plan allocation of costs - a five star hotel may value finishes more than a county council procuring a wastewater treatment plant - we ensure this allocation matches function/need. We anticipate the timing of costs… calculating the lifecycle costs in the long term and doing cash flow analysis in the short to medium term. We do this in a stochastic industry where no two projects are the same, and in a world of finite resources. This module gives the learner the basis for developing the skills to make cost plans.
Title: Estimating & Tendering
Credits: 5
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Competitive Estimating & Tendering is an exciting subset of Quantity Surveying. Your Construction Company relies on you to win contracts and the owners rely on your skills to ensure that the work is profitable. Few other roles can have such an impact on the success or otherwise of the Contractor. It is challenging and can be very rewarding.
The Estimating & Tendering module is designed to prepare the learner for an entry level, cooperative role within the Estimating Department of a contemporary construction organisation as an Estimator/CQS. Theory is explained, lists provided, motivation and encouragement. There is a practical element that makes the learner relevant and useful on their first day in the role.
