Quantity Surveyor

Your duties asQuantity Surveyor are as follows:

• Establish client requirements and undertake feasibility studies.
• Attend onsite and consultants’ meetings and liaise with clients, architects and associate consultants in the administration of projects
• Interpret engineering drawings and specifications to calculate project costs.
• Prepare various main building contracts, piling contracts and nominated sub-contracts for tender and contract formalisation
• Measure and take off quantities for architectural and structural work elements.
• Administer pre and post-contract and consultancy work
• Assess variation orders, prepare interim valuations, cost plans and budget studies
• Compile contract documents for execution
• Understand and adhere to the statutory building regulations
• Undertake cost analysis for repair and maintenance of project work
• Allocate work to subcontractors
• Analyse outcomes and write detailed progress reports
• Maintain awareness of different building contracts in current use
• Perform cost planning, life cycle costing and cost control
• Prepare and assist in monitoring the progress claims and payments
• Assist in verifying subcontractor claims and subcontractor awards
• Settle contractual disputes and prepare final accounts