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This vocationally-focused course delivers all the knowledge and skills you'll need to start a career as a quantity surveyor in construction: from tendering to win a project bid, to analysing cash flow, and effectively managing contracts.
Throughout the course, you'll build a sound knowledge and understanding of the role of cost management professionals in construction, as defined by the professional bodies, and its application in different contexts within the built environment.
At the heart of the course is the development of your problem-solving skills, providing you with the knowledge to provide sound and justified cost management advice and guidance in a variety of different formats. To aid this, you'll be encouraged to develop your technical writing and presentation skills throughout the course.
This course sits alongside an already well-established portfolio of built environment courses with outstanding credentials, and strong links to industry.
While work experience and placements are not mandatory to the course, students are strongly encouraged to complete it where possible. Using our industry links, the course team will endeavour to provide a range of suitable opportunities for you over the duration of your course, in between formal study periods.
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR
This course is ideally suited to students who have a general interest in construction and who want to specialise in cost management. Applicants should have a logical approach to thinking and have an eye for detail.
WHAT DOES THIS COURSE LEAD TO?
Upon successful completion of this degree, graduates will be able to commence a career in cost management in the construction industry. Typical roles for graduates would include assistant quantity surveyor, assistant commercial manager or assistant contracts manager.
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