Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quantity surveyor
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another big cod fell to Cardiff quantity surveyor Steve Williams on his first-ever fishing trip.
▪ He also works with the quantity surveyor to prepare budget costs.
▪ He retained his private practice as a quantity surveyor from his office at No. 4, Parliament Street.
▪ The association's own quantity surveyor and marketing department made detailed investigations.
▪ The costing process for nominated suppliers also involves the client's quantity surveyor.
Wiktionary
quantity surveyor
n. A person who calculates the cost of materials and labour on a construction project based on an architect plans.
Wikipedia
Quantity surveyor
A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and contracts.
Services provided by a quantity surveyor may include:
- Cost planning and commercial management throughout the entire life cycle of the project from inception to post-completion
- Value engineering
- Risk management and calculation
- Procurement advice and assistance during the tendering procedures
- Tender analysis and agreement of the contract sum
- Commercial management and contract administration
- Assistance in dispute resolution
- Asset capitalisation
- Interim valuations and payment assessment
- Cost management process
- Assessing the additional costs of design variations
- Production of company pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) documentation in line with company policies.
Usage examples of "quantity surveyor".
Annabel Hardman went out with a quantity surveyor the other night, he just lay back on the sofa, said he wanted to hear all about her life from the age of two, and then fell asleep.