The Challenges Facing Quantity Surveying Education in Meeting Employers and Industry Needs

Ng, Lucas Tien Wei (2018) The Challenges Facing Quantity Surveying Education in Meeting Employers and Industry Needs. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

A Quantity Surveyor is one of the many construction professionals. A professional quantity surveyor shall has an in-depth understanding of construction industry technology, project cost planning, project cost control and etc. Traditional roles of the Quantity Surveyors in the construction industry included single rate approximate estimating, cost planning, procurement advice, preparation of Bills of Quantities and so on. Roles of quantity surveyors are changing significantly and the construction nowadays is pushing quantity surveyor graduates to become competent in term of soft skills (The Star, 2017). One of the reason of this change was to meet client needs and to face the competition from other professions. Competencies of the professional quantity surveyor have been discussed and universities had been said of not equipping students with the necessary soft skills. The objectives of this research are: to identify the evolving roes of the Quantity Surveyors, to analyse whether the current syllabus or training programmes provided by the academic institutions fulfils the industry needs and to identify employers’ expectations on the soft skills and knowledge of fresh quantity surveyor graduates. To achieve the aim of this research, the literature review has been carried out to collect the secondary data. Besides that, the primary data collection will be carried out in this research through quantitative method. Questionnaires survey will be distributed to the contractor and consultants firms within Kuala Lumpur and Selangor area. Data collected will be analysed by using bar chart, pie chart, line graph, Likert scale formula and others. The research outcome with findings and recommendations will be given to fresh Quantity Surveyor students to help them to focus in the relevant current areas to enhance their skills and knowledge in order to stay relevant and competent in the construction industry.