BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying
Bachelor's degree
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
Quantity surveyors are involved in cost, financial and contract management of construction projects, from inception to demolition/deconstruction to deliver the best value to clients. With the increasing demand for quantity surveyors across the globe, our BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying course provides you with the opportunity for an exciting career in the construction industry. It is designed to equip you with core knowledge and skills required of quantity surveyors in the industry underpinned with an understanding of contracts and construction methodology to establish, plan, manage and report on cost related aspects of construction projects.
This course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and gives you the opportunity to qualify as a Chartered member once appropriate industry experience is obtained and successful assessment of professional competence achieved.
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The course is designed to provide both academic and vocational learning structure to equip students with the requisite knowledge, skills and behaviour needed as quantity surveyors to transfer into the world of work.
Modules are designed around authentic practice providing an opportunity for real-life learning and application of theory to practice. You will undertake individual and group assignments, to gain knowledge and understanding on topical and core quantity surveying practices and innovative practices in the Built Environment such as BIM. In addition it will enable you to develop excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, IT capabilities, and collaborative working skills core to succeeding in the ever-evolving construction industry.
You will be taught by leading industry experts including professionally accredited academics, pioneering researchers. Tailored mentoring and coaching regular academic reviews, networking events, intensive pre-semester catch-up sessions, employer forums and evidence-based research project hubs are also made available to further support your learning and career development.
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Subjects
- Construction Training
- Industry
- Built Environment
- Construction
- Surveying
Course programme
Module: 4CN030
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The Architecture and the Built Environment Industries project management systems are heavily built around document control and relating events such as change orders, submittals, transmittals and requests for information (RFIs). These functionalities are usually forming the core of electronic data/document management systems (EDMS) that are widely used by contractors and construction management consultants. The content of EDMS, i.e. documents in the form of individual files and their details can have contractual role and implications. The emphasis of this module is to introduce the student to the latest digital infrastructure around us and the way it is affecting all businesses including the wider construction sector. Various applications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have aleady taken over mechanical business and public service data operations and the aim is to introduce Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the latest data management systems to students inthe context of the industry.
Module: 4CN006
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of various methods of communication used in business and industrial environments; and introduce the built environment student to the world of your specific discipline
Module: 4CN016
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module has two educational aims; First, it aims to introduce you to the study of economics in the context of the built environment in the UK. It examines the basic economic principles that underpin and influence the operation of the built environment and construction sectors in the UK and to develop your understanding of the sources, disposition and control of capital for construction companies and in the development of real estate. Secondly it aims to apply your knowledge of viable construction projects as a member of a group tasked with planning a built solution.
Module: 4CN027
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to introduce the student to the initial and preparatory professional skills which are aligned to their relevant built environment professional discipline.
Module: 4CN001
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the English legal system, building regulations and law of contract; and introduce the legal aspects of procurement, tendering procedures, forms of contract as applicable to construction projects.
Module: 4CN002
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of low rise construction, provide an introduction to common construction materials and environmental interactions
Module: 5CN010
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to develop your understanding of the key professional relationships between the various disciplines involved in the management of construction projects. This including the development of team working skills through completion of a group based project where you are brought together into teams within which a set of structured / interrelated tasks are undertaken in order to develop your personal attributes, self management, communication and problem solving skills in a team environment.
Module: 5CN001
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The purpose of this module is to enable you to develop and apply principles and applications of construction technologies related to high rise structures, commercial and industrial buildings. Aspects of civil engineering and building services technology will also be investigated
Module: 5CN035
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aims are to extend existing knowledge and further develop an understanding of the elements, concepts and techniques used in quantity surveying within the industry or the processes of procurement, tendering and costing of work item form the prospective of main contractor and sub contractor.
Module: 5CN022
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
There is a dual aim to this module. The first aim is to develop your knowledge and application of the legal framework in which the built environment, property and construction industries operate. The second aim is to build on existing, and further develop knowledge of health and safety in the built environment, raising your awareness of the legal, personal and organisational responsibilities built environment professionals have. These aims will be achieved by the study of the legal frameworks from which legislation and other controls stem and contextualising them into a built environment context.
Module: 5CN034
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The principal aim of this module is to enable the student on completion to understand planning techniques and devise programmes for constrcution projects and to understand and execute post contract activities for a quantity surveying perspective.
Module: 5CN038
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core r,...
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BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying
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Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
West Lothian College
HNC OnlinePrice on request -
North West Regional College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Staffordshire University
Bachelor's degree Distance Learning£ 9,000 + VAT -
Limperts Academy of Design
Course Distance LearningPrice on request -
ElectaCourse
Vocational qualification Distance LearningPrice on request -
Weymouth College
NVQ OnlinePrice on request
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