Mid Green occupationConstruction and the built environment
Chartered surveyor - Quantity Surveying & Project Management
Providing professional advice and recommendations to clients on land, property or construction.
Summary
This occupation is found in the land, property and construction sectors. The broad purpose of the occupation is to provide professional advice relating to land, property, construction or infrastructure including design, building, procurement, value and management. Chartered Surveyors measure, value, manage and protect the world’s physical and natural assets to ensure their potential is maximised. They play an integral part in all transactions across land, property, construction and infrastructure and are responsible for entire projects and the lifecycle of buildings from overseeing planning, design and construction, through to occupation, sustainable usage, demolition and redevelopment. From city skyscrapers to sports stadiums, forests to festival sites, shopping centres to the homes we live in Chartered Surveyors are involved in them all.
Chartered Surveyors require a mix of high level technical skills, business skills, an understanding of people and communities, appreciation of the built and natural world and the ability to bring these diverse skills together. Chartered Surveyors solve problems, use leading edge technology and take account of a wide range of issues in order to provide their advice including legal and regulatory issues, finance, cost, sustainability, inclusivity and health and safety. Chartered Surveyors abide by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Rules of Conduct and ethical principles because they hold positions of responsibility and make decisions that have significant financial implications and impact on the natural and built environment. The occupation is regulated by high standards of professionalism assuring clients and employers of the quality of service they will receive. Chartered Surveyors are responsible for autonomously managing their own work programs and time while maintaining their own personal development and contributing to that of others.
There are three distinct pathways:
Building Surveying: providing professional advice on buildings and construction, ranging from city office blocks and skyscrapers to home extensions. Undertaking detailed surveys of buildings identifying defects and advising on repair, maintenance and restoration options.
Quantity Surveying & Project Management: negotiating contracts and prices, assessing, evaluating and managing construction projects to ensure the best value for money and quality including life cycle costing, cost planning, procurement and tendering, contract administration and commercial management.
Property: valuing (including inspecting and measuring), managing, buying, selling, developing and leasing land and property (including minerals).
Typical job titles include
- Chartered Building Surveyor | Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor | Chartered Minerals Surveyor | Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor | Chartered Project Management Surveyor | Chartered Quantity Surveyor | Chartered Rural Surveyor | Chartered Surveyor | Chartered Valuation Surveyor | Corporate Real Estate Surveyor and Property Management Surveyor | Residential Surveyor
Knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs)
K1:
Law - The law and the role of legal advisers relating to either acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts.
K2:
Information management - The methods and techniques for providing information, data and advice to clients.
K3:
Finance - Accounting procedures and methods for obtaining and managing finance.
K4:
Health and safety - How to ensure safe and secure working environments for self and others.
K5:
Diversity and inclusion - The importance and recognition of diversity. Legal, regulatory and ethical requirements including inclusive environments.
K6:
Sustainability - How to embed sustainability into projects and how to influence client behaviour.
K7:
Construction technology - The technology of complex buildings including materials.
K8:
Ethics and professionalism - The role, governance and regulatory frameworks of the RICS. Global and professional ethical standards and Rules of Conduct and how to deal with ethical dilemmas.
K9:
Client relationships - How to manage client/customer relationships.
K13:
Procurement and contracts - Identifying when different forms of procurement and tendering are appropriate and the clauses of building/infrastructure contracts.
K14:
Costing and cost planning of construction works - The detailed quantification and costing of construction works and the methods of cost planning that can be applied.
K15:
Construction project control and reporting – Management of a construction project and the principles of contingencies and risk allowances. Life cycle costing and value engineering. Techniques to manage contractors, sub contractors and/or suppliers. Reporting and forecasting.
Technical Educational Products
- ST0331: Chartered surveyor (degree) - Quantity Surveying & Project Management (Level 6) Approved for delivery
- Reference:
- OCC0331C
- Status:
Approved occupation
- Average (median) salary:
- £41,683 per year
- SOC 2020 code:
- 2454 Chartered surveyors
- SOC 2020 sub unit groups:
- 2454/99 Chartered surveyors n.e.c.
- 2454/01 Building control surveyors
- 2454/04 Property surveyors
S1:
Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
S2:
Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
S3:
Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
S4:
Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
S5:
Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
S9:
Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
S10:
Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
S11:
Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
Technical Educational Products
- ST0331: Chartered surveyor (degree) - Quantity Surveying & Project Management (Level 6) Approved for delivery
- Reference:
- OCC0331C
- Status:
- Approved occupation
- Average (median) salary:
- £41,683 per year
- SOC 2020 code:
- 2454 Chartered surveyors
- SOC 2020 sub unit groups:
- 2454/99 Chartered surveyors n.e.c.
- 2454/01 Building control surveyors
- 2454/04 Property surveyors
B1:
Provide a high standard of service - Always ensure your client, or others to whom you have a professional responsibility, receive the best possible advice, support or performance of the terms of engagement you have agreed to and ensure you always give attention to detail.
B2:
Act in a way that promotes trust in the surveying profession - Act in a manner, both in your professional life and private life, to promote you, your firm or the organisation you work for in a professional and positive way.
B3:
Act with integrity - Always be trustworthy, open and transparent. Respect confidential information of your clients or potential clients and do not allow bias, conflict of interest or the undue influence of others to override your professional or business judgments or obligations. Always act consistently in the public interest when making decisions or providing advice.
B4:
Treat others with respect - Treat everyone with courtesy, politeness and respect and consider cultural sensitivities and business practices.
B5:
Take responsibility - Always act with skill, care and diligence and deal with any complaint in an appropriate professional manner.
Technical Educational Products
- ST0331: Chartered surveyor (degree) - Quantity Surveying & Project Management (Level 6) Approved for delivery
- Reference:
- OCC0331C
- Status:
- Approved occupation
- Average (median) salary:
- £41,683 per year
- SOC 2020 code:
- 2454 Chartered surveyors
- SOC 2020 sub unit groups:
- 2454/99 Chartered surveyors n.e.c.
- 2454/01 Building control surveyors
- 2454/04 Property surveyors
