Quantity Surveying and Construction BSc (Hons)

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

Quantity Surveying and Construction focuses on controlling and managing the costs of construction projects; you could be involved with any stage of a project, from feasibility, design and construction, through to extension, refurbishment, maintenance and even demolition.

Our course will help you gain an understanding of the technical aspects of construction over the whole life of a building or facility. You will learn to understand contracts, budgets, quantities, measurements and sustainability to achieve the best quality and value within the project’s specifications. You are likely to be involved in a range of services, from cost consultancy to contract management.

You will be able to advance your professional skills through an optional industry placement between years two and three. This placement year can count as part of the required experience for Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors professional status.

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Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

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About this course

Many of our students will work towards Chartered Membership (MRICS) status upon graduation, by gaining a further two years of practical training. While for others, the course provides a transition to postgraduate study.

Quantity surveyors are the cost managers of construction, Quantity surveyors work in all sectors of the construction industry. Providing services ranging from preparing feasibility studies or development appraisals, procurement management, life cycle costing to conducting value engineering exercises, and are ideally placed to provide a wide range of services.

Art and Design Foundation or
112 points from at least 2 A levels or
BTEC Extended Diploma DMM or
International Baccalaureate: 26+ Points

This new course is currently pending accreditation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, which will mean your learning is kept relevant to industry and recognised by employers as a benchmark of quality.

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Subjects

  • Contracts
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Surveying
  • Design
  • Construction Training
  • Construction
  • Project
  • Quantity Surveying Skills
  • Surveying Skills
  • Construction Industry

Course programme

First year
  • Professional Quantity Surveying Skills
  • Practice and Management in the Construction Industry
  • The Economics of Construction
  • Building Technology 1
  • Sustainable Building Principles
Second year
  • Contracts, Law and Procurement
  • Building Technology 2
  • Building Economics and Project Management
  • Professional Practice
  • Methods of Measurement
  • Optional Placement Year
Third year
  • Contract and Law
  • Technological and Environmental Innovation
  • Quantity Surveying Practice
  • Dissertation
  • Integrated Project
Learning and Teaching

This course sits within the suite of Built Environment programmes at DMU. It aims to prepare students for employability and for Chartered membership of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, following two years of practical training and also for those wishing to progress to Masters courses. The programme culminates in both the Integrated Design project with Building Surveying and Architectural Technology students and a dissertation project in which students design and carry out their own research into a specialist area.

Module assessment strategies have a wide range of methods including portfolio presentations, essays, reports, oral and graphical presentations and continuous assessment regimes, particularly in the studio-based aspects of modules.

Our integrated team of built environment professionals teach and research architecture, practice and measurement. The academic team is committed to a rich range of teaching, learning and student support, and assessment methods to reflect the vocational nature of the course. The course draws on the wide range of research expertise in the Leicester School of Architecture, ranging from technology and sustainability to the practice of quantity surveying. You will also benefit from the input of practitioners and specialists and visiting guest lecturers.

Contact hours

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports). Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 16 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 23 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research

Additional information

UCAS course code: K230

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