Course info

Surveying is a profession that covers a number of different disciplines. In this unit you will be introduced to the work of the building surveyor, the land surveyor and the quantity surveyor. You will choose one of these disciplines to carry out an applied surveying task as part of this unit’s assessment.

In this unit you will learn how the building surveyor produces measured and condition surveys of existing buildings, to develop skills such as collecting data, accurate measuring, taking photographs, using electronic surveying equipment, producing drawings and recording building defects.

You will learn how the land surveyor measures existing features on the natural and the built environment and presents the data for use by architects and engineers to design construction projects.

A quantity surveyor (QS) is an expert in construction costs and finance. You will learn how they work for either the contractor or the client and are involved both pre- and post-contract. In the pre-contract phase, quantity surveyors are involved in measuring in order to produce bills of quantities that are used by the contractor to tender for the project and by the QS to produce monthly valuations and the final account.

By completing this unit you will gain an understanding of the surveying professions and how they contribute to the development of the built environment.