Description
Higher Certificate in Construction Quantity Surveying
Quantity surveying in the built environment for the purposes of determining feasibility of property development, calculation of construction quantities for tender purposes, followed by the endless necessity to measure construction work quantities for production and construction progress cost control is a golden thread that translates the physical structures into quantifiable ‘work packages’ with a monetary value attached to it.
The above requires quantity surveyors that can navigate a development process, refurbishments, redevelopments and construction costing through dangerous, highly technical, economic, human resources requirements, financial, legal and endless other imperatives. From the above challenges arise tasks and fields of speciality that offers very many career opportunities.
From an education and training perspective it is an ‘everything or nothing’ situation. The only option to become a professional quantity surveyor is to obtain a degree(s) after many years of public university study. There are virtually no opportunities to obtain a qualification in any other way, whilst a huge need exists, particularly for working adults in the built environment who are involved in construction quantification in one way or another to obtain a qualification. This Higher Certificate in Construction Quantity Surveying has been introduced to serve this need. Many people working for construction companies, property developers, facilities managers, professional quantity surveying practices and allied employers, strive for an opportunity to obtain a qualification in construction quantity surveying to equip them with the fundamental building blocks to conduct their tasks in correct industry acknowledged fashion. This need also exists where people require an entry point into the industry as school leavers, or from allied professions, requiring enhancement of their existing career prospects and development.
A qualification as a construction quantity surveyor has the further advantage that it offers employment opportunities in an office environment or an exciting outside work environment of construction sites.
For purposes of the CEA Higher Certificate in Construction Quantity Surveying, the latter concept is defined as follows:
Construction quantity surveying is the quantification of the labour, other work, equipment and material content and costs required to undertake construction work within a suitable legal framework.
Note: All the CEA Higher Certificate Programme subject/modules contents are structured to consciously develop an entrepreneurial orientation and innovative ability of our students.
