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What is the difference between a chartered surveyor and a quantity surveyor?

You may have heard the terms Surveyor and Quantity Surveyor, but do you actually know the difference between these two occupations? What careers they will lead to and what course you should be looking at?

ISA would like to share our professional advice with you.

What are they?

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is called a land surveyor. Surveyors use equipment like total stations, robotic total stations, GPS receivers, etc.

The professional body for this industry is Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI). Eligibility for the membership of SSSI is successful completion of recognised degrees by SSSI, and IELTS 6, no working experience required.

A Quantity Surveyor (QS) is a construction industry professional with expert knowledge on construction costs and contracts. Services provided by a quantity surveyor may include cost planning and commercial management throughout the entire life cycle of a project from inception to post-completion; value determination; risk management and calculation; tender analysis and agreement of the contract sum. This occupation is more like a combination of architecture and business.

The professional body for this industry is the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS). Eligibility for the membership of AIQS is the successful completion of recognized degrees only, no IELTS or working experience required.

What kind of courses should you be thinking about to be a Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor?

To become a surveyor or a land surveyor, you should consider courses like Spatial Science, Geospatial Science, and Engineering in Surveying.

To become a quantity surveyor, you should consider Construction Management as an undergraduate course or a postgraduate course.

As different courses have different entry requirement, also not all courses are recognised by SSSI or AIQS, ISA suggests you contact our professional counsellor ASAP, or come to our office for more information!

Or, check out our website  https://www.buildingsurveyorjobs.co.uk/. Our staff is waiting to help you.