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Quantity Surveyor (QS)
So what exactly is a quantity surveyor (QS), and what do they do day-to-day?
This guide explains everything you need to know about the profession, including average salaries and how to launch your career.
The Role of the Quantity Surveyor A quantity surveyor is the financial linchpin of any construction job. You'll become an expert at precisely costing buildings from conception through completion while ensuring each project meets all legal and quality requirements.
As a quantity surveyor, you'll be involved from the very start - consulting with the client and contractors on preliminary cost analysis. Once construction begins, you'll monitor ongoing expenses, identify potential savings for the client, and produce regular progress reports.
With experience, you'll offer expert advice on lifecycle costing, cost planning, procurement, tendering, contract administration and overall commercial management. You may specialise in a particular area or play an active hand in multiple aspects of a project.
Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire on the River Soar, just south of Loughborough with a population in 2001 of 6,662 inhabitants,[1][2] increasing to 8,223 at the 2011 census.[3]
The village is in the borough ofCharnwood, surrounding a steep hill, once crowned by a castle, and is bordered to the east by theRiver Soar.
The village is renowned for theButtercrossMarket in the village centre as well as itsgranitequarry, the largest in Europe. TheLeicesterarm of theGrand Union Canalruns through Mountsorrel.
The civil parish meets with Rothley to the south, and some houses are actually in Rothley parish near the southern A6 junction. To the west of the parish is a nature reserve. North of here, theLeicestershire Roundpasses east–west through the north of the village. The parish boundary meets Quorndon where it first meets the quarry near Buddon Wood. North of there, it crosses the former A6, 500 metres (1,600 ft) towards Quorn from the roundabout for the A6 roundabout. Close to the bypass, theRiver Soarbecomes the parish boundary and south of the A6 northern junction it meetsSilebyat the point where it crosses the A6 bypass. Five hundred metres (one thousand six hundred feet) south of there, the boundary leaves the river to the west, with the river becoming the Sileby-Rothley boundary.
