Professional Practices

Reflective Journal
As a professional party, we need to have a basic idea and knowledge on professional and contractual responsibilities of a quantity surveyor from design stage to final account stage.Thought this module, we can clearly define needs and responsibilities of a quantity surveyor. It also focus to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their theory of quantity surveying and to prepare them for professional practice after graduating from University.

The role of quantity surveyor not only measure and estimate the cost of a building,yet it includes others responsibilities like construction contract and prepare tender document which also important to a project to go succeed. These module have covered the topic such as tendering, form of contract, principle of fee calculation, variation, valuation, extension of time and more. All these necessary theoretical base and practical skills will be used in practical to enable us to think analytically within a multi-disciplinary field.

We have given an individual assignment to recommend client on procurement, tendering and contractual relationship for a project with certain specific conditions. This assignment gained the base ideas in writing a proposal on recommending methods to a clients which maybe everyday a  quantity surveyor need to be done. This is also another tough module that we need to go through as it related to many theories, facts and contracts which required a lot of understanding and memorizing. Yet, I think is also one of the important module which we need to learn as a quantity surveyor.