This is a superb career for men and women who have the desire to involve themselves in the exciting world of construction and development. In a highly pressurised world of spiralling costs and large scale development, the role of the quantity surveyor is currently more vital than ever before.

This relates to the use of schedules to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. It can also be described as a discipline for stating how to complete a project within a certain time-frame usually with defined stages, and with designated resources.