Quantity Surveying BSc(Hons)

Start date

16 September 2024

Duration

3 years full-time
4 years inc. placement year

About the course

Reasons to study

1.Our Quantity Surveying BSc(Hons) has been ranked fourth in the UK by The Guardian League Table for Construction, Surveying and Planning (2023).
2.This course is accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
3.To enhance your graduate employment prospects (by boosting your skills and widening your experience) you’ll have the chance to undertake a work placement in the UK or overseas.

Our Quantity Surveying BSc(Hons) course could provide the first step to becoming a qualified Quantity Surveyor. The courses accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). It has been developed to work alongside our Architecture BA(Hons) and courses in Architectural Technology and Construction Project Management, to help develop a strong understanding of professionalism within the construction industry and how to work in multidisciplinary teams.

Two crucial tools for today’s quantity surveyor are Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Lean Construction focuses on delivering minimum cost and maximum value for a construction project, looking at how the process of design, construction and end-use of a building is managed. BIM enhances Lean Construction, giving surveyors tools to manage the costs of materials and labour in projects. On the course, you’ll explore both areas to understand how you could deliver better value to future clients. This surveying course also provides the skills to enable you to manage the commercial and contractual aspects of the construction process.

Once you’ve enrolled on the Quantity Surveying course, you can switch to Construction project Management or Quantity Surveying (with the agreement of your tutors) at the end of the first year if your interests change.

Why study Quantity Surveying BSc(Hons)

This Quantity Surveying course has been ranked fourth in the UK by The Guardian League Table for Construction, Surveying and Planning (2023), and gives you the chance to develop the skills you need to work within construction.

To enhance your graduate employment prospects, you’ll also have the chance to undertake a work placement in the UK or overseas.

Course detail

Year 1

Core modules:

Design and Construction Practice

This module aims at introducing students to practices in the design and construction of facilities in the Built Environment. It focuses on the practical application of materials, components and systems to small-scale structures and buildings. It also provides you with an opportunity to apply technology to the design process along with developing understanding of the importance of architectural detailing in conjunction with appropriate construction methods. The module will facilitate the development of presentation skills in all forms from spoken presentations at tutorials to the preparation of suitable drawings and models of carefully detailed components. You will be encouraged to integrate practical, technical and theoretical skills from adjacent modules.

Construction Business and Law

This module will introduce the overall construction business to you. The content is structured into three distinctive, but interrelated areas, namely, business at industry level, business at project level and business at individual level.

Building Technology and Digital Communication

The aim of this module is to provide an introduction to the principles and practices of building technology, digital technologies, communication and representation in the context of architecture and construction. This module consists of four parallel strands: Structures; Buildings Fabric Design; Environmental Design and Digital Communication.

Year 2

Core modules:

Collaborative Project Built Environment

The aim of the module is to provide you with an opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary teams and enable you to perform tasks in the context of a team-based project. It offers you the experience of team working and the multi-disciplinary nature of Built Environment (BE) projects. The project will allow you to practise and further develop both discipline-specific and generic key skills required by a Built Environment professional and encourage self-reflection and enable you to further develop a personal development plan that aligns your learning needs and career aspirations and the requirements of professional institutions.

Quantification and Cost Management

Measurement/quantification and cost management is a core skill of a Quantity Surveyor. In this module, you will explore cost control and financial management strategies within the design and construction process and examine the process of setting, controlling and monitoring of cost / financial objectives during the project life cycle. You will be introduced to the construction cost management techniques for each stage of the design and construction process. This module will also introduce the basic concepts of building and Civil Engineering measurements to establish the fundamental knowledge about the role, the process, the basic rules and the industry standards of building and civil engineering measurements.

Building Technology and Digital Detailing

In this module, you will be given an introduction to the legal framework and approaches associated with the conservation of buildings. The module will introduce the causes and nature of building defects likely to occur in a range of contemporary and traditional buildings. Supplemented by a substantial amount of background reading, you will develop the skills needed to understand problematic material-based issues that arise in various types of construction.

Year 3 - optional placement year

School of Art and Humanities Placement

You will normally spend a total of 48 weeks (36 weeks minimum) between the end of year two and the beginning of your final year in a managed work experience. You will be encouraged to obtain a placement activity relevant to your area of specialism, however a wide range of placements will be regarded as suitable. The placement will be monitored and you will be assessed on completion.

Final Year

Core modules:

Professional Practice

In this module you will consolidate the prior learning in technical, professional and managerial subjects to attain a level of preparedness for professional practice and career development. In part, this is a response to the requirements of built environment professional institutions where the future practitioners are expected to have a fuller understanding and awareness of business and commercial matters and the enterprise characteristics of their chosen profession.

Advanced Measurement and Commercial Management

This module focuses on the detailed and advanced quantification of construction work. This enhances your knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of measurement developed at Level I (Year 2). It will also enable you to develop an in-depth understanding of the processes of commercial and value management.

Procurement and Contract Administration

Advice on construction procurement and contract administration is a major responsibility that comes under the job profile of Quantity Surveyors. At the same time, procurement systems and contractual arrangements often have major influences over the strategies used to design and manage a given construction project. As such, it is important that the future Quantity Surveyors, Building Surveyors and Construction Project Managers have a deep insight of various construction procurement systems and standard form of contracts (JCT and NEC forms of contracts). Accordingly, this module introduces the principal types of procurement systems and associated standard form of contracts used in the UK construction market and internationally. In addition, it explores the fundamental procedures related to construction contract administration using the commonly used standard form of contracts.

Major Project Dissertation

This module provides you with an opportunity to lead an investigation into an area of the Built Environment that is of interest to you. You will choose and define the topic, research relevant information (either primary or secondary), set that information in the context of an appropriate intellectual framework, draw relevant conclusions, and write up and submit the project in an approved format. A support lecture programme and an individual research supervisor are provided.

Teaching and Assessment

You will be taught through a series of lectures and tutorials and your assessment will include coursework, presentations and exams.

On average, 24.0%* of the study time on this course is spent in lectures, seminars, tutorials etc.

*based on 22/23 programme specifications.

Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.

Feedback (usually written) is normally provided on all coursework submissions within three term time weeks – unless the submission was made towards the end of the session in which case feedback would be available on request after the formal publication of results. Feedback on exam performance/final coursework is available on request after the publication of results.

Inspirational field trips to destinations of educational and cultural significance are a component of the course and will be funded by the University.

Further information

The teaching year normally starts in September with breaks at Christmas and Easter, finishing with a main examination/assessment period around May/June. The exams for this course will take place in January. Timetables are normally available one month before registration.

Your course is made up of modules and each module is worth a number of credits. Each year you study modules to the value of 120 credits, adding up to 360 credits in total for a bachelor’s qualification. These credits can come from a combination of core, compulsory and optional modules but please note that optional modules may not run if we do not have enough students interested.

If you achieve 120 credits for the current stage you are at, you may progress to the next stage of your course, subject to any professional, statutory or regulatory body guidelines.

Teaching excellence

The University of Huddersfield has been rated Gold in all three aspects of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023. We were the only university in Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West to achieve Gold ratings in all three aspects of the TEF among those announced in September 2023. In fact only 13 Universities, out of the 96 that were announced in September 2023, were Gold in all three ratings.
Further proof of teaching excellence: our staff rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates, who have higher degrees, and hold teaching qualifications (HESA 2024). So, you’ll learn from some of the best, helping you to be the best.
We are joint first in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 23 since 2008 (2024 data).
We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award, recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017).

Global Professional Award

At Huddersfield, you'll study the Global Professional Award (GPA) alongside your degree* so that you gain valuable qualities and experiences that could help you to get the career you want, no matter what your field of study is. On completion of the Award, you'll receive a GPA certificate from the University of Huddersfield, alongside the specialist subject skills and knowledge you gain as part of your degree, which may help to set you apart from other graduates.

Giving students access to the Global Professional Award is one of the reasons the University won ‘Best University Employability Strategy’ award at the National Graduate Recruitment Awards 2021. Find out more on the Global Professional Award webpage.

*full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees.

Entry requirements

To find out if you’re eligible to start this course in September 2024 and get more information on how to apply, please see our Clearing pages or call our Clearing Helpline on 0333 987 9000 01484 472777.

If you’re interested in studying this course in September 2025, please view the 2025-26 course information.

Made in Huddersfield Showcase

Come join us at our 2024 graduate's showcase

We are thrilled to announce our showcase ‘Made in Huddersfield’ will be open from Monday - Friday 10am - 9pm and Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm.

We are located in the Barbara Hepworth Building on the University campus, and you will be able to see a range of work from our students, including Architecture, Design, Drama, Film, Humanities, Fashion, Music, Textiles and Visual Arts.
For more information, please email us at sah.marketing@hud.ac.uk.

Creative Excellence Competition

Celebrating Local Student Achievement

The University of Huddersfield is the only university in Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West to have been awarded an outstanding Gold rating, the highest accolade attainable, in all three aspects of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). In honour of this achievement, we've developed the Creative Excellence Competition!

The Creative Excellence competition is a showcase and celebration of creative excellence emerging from schools and colleges across the UK.

Find out more

Industry placements

Placements offer hands-on, industry experience! Surveying (Quantity Surveying) student, Charlie Seargent, has recently joined Esh Construction on his year-long placement.

"On site visits, I have participated in different tasks that I wouldn’t have done at university."

Learn more about Charlie's experience

Newly accredited by RICS

Our undergraduate courses in Construction Project Management and Quantity Surveying have been accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). RICS work with education providers to recognise programmes relevant to a career in surveying and for a course to be accredited indicates a globally-recognised standard of surveying education.

The Barbara Hepworth Building

Welcome to the Barbara Hepworth Building - home to Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield.

Designed for experimentation, students have the opportunity to develop, curate and exhibit their work in innovative spaces, utilising fully extensive and leading workshop facilities such as 3D printers for rapid prototyping and modelling, laser cutters, Wacom drawing tablets, virtual reality and motion tracking sensors, print and dye, maker library, photography studios, advanced 3D technologies, digital print centre, specialist studios and software and the ability to get access to all facilities and much more.

Find out more

London Marathon

Architecture students from the University have won a national competition with their eye-catching designs for new mile markers that will be erected along the entire course of the Virgin London Marathon.

The team will make their mark on the 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon and its 40,000-plus participants, plus the millions watching worldwide.

They have been declared winners of a nationwide competition – backed by the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust – to design eye-catching new mile markers to be erected along the course of the famous race. These will replace the scaffolding-style structures that have been in use for several years.

Read their story

Inspired Collaboration

A film celebrating the inspired collaboration between RIBA Yorkshire, AHR, Morgan Sindall and the University of Huddersfield which demonstrates the lived experience of teaching and learning in the Barbara Hepworth Building, and promotes the benefits of industry and academia collaboration.

Our Facilities

Discover our facilities, in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield.

Dedicated to exploration, students across the School of Arts and Humanities have the opportunity to cultivate, curate and showcase in a range innovative spaces, utilising extensive and purpose-built facilities. These include 3D printers for rapid prototyping and modelling, laser cutters, the virtual reality cave, print and dye capabilities, photography studios, digital print centre, specialist film studios including industry-standard equipment, and so much more.

Placements

The course offers an optional one-year (36 week minimum) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad. This will give you the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience, insight into your chosen career and open up your graduate employment prospects. Our Placement Unit and academic staff have excellent industry links and can support you in applying for and finding your placement(s), as well as during your placement year.

You can find out more information on placements here.

I felt like Kier gave me the greatest opportunity to get involved with a major project and gain the greatest experience possible. The placement year has solidified my interest in being a Quantity Surveyor and in the future, it will help with my chances of getting a graduate job!

Hollie Birks, Final year Quantity Surveying student Undertook her placement at Kier Group

Facilities

Phidias Lab for VR - Image: AHR

Canalside view of the Barbara Hepworth Building

Student Visits

Built environment students from construction and surveying on a site visit

Student Visit

Student Visit to Liverpool

Student Visit

Students on a site visit

Student visit

Students undertaking a company visit

Student visit

Students on a company visit

Your career

The course aims to help you to develop the necessary skills leading to be a professionally qualified Chartered Quantity Surveyor. As a graduate you could consider a career as a quantity surveyor, possibly through first working as an assistant.

*Percentage of our undergraduate students from this subject area go on to work and/or further study within fifteen months of graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 2019/20, UK domiciled, other activities excluded).

85% Graduates employed*

Professional links and accreditations

This programme is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Career support

Further study

Progression to a postgraduate course is dependent on successful completion of your undergraduate studies, there may also be minimum qualification requirements such as a first class or higher second (2.1) degree. Please check the course details to confirm this.

Inspiring Graduate

An undergraduate degree from the University of Huddersfield could be the start of an exciting career in your chosen field. Our graduates go on to succeed in a whole range of exciting careers. Here’s just one example.

As a graduate of the University of Huddersfield you'll become a member of our alumni community, allowing you to stay in touch and continue to access university services.

My time at university was a fantastic experience. The journey was amazing as I met so many different people and picked up so many key skills from my studies, which I knew would be vital for my development. Now, I am a quantity surveyor for one of the biggest consultancy firms in the globe.

Monna Rahman, Quantity Surveying BSc(Hons), Assistant Cost Manager at Turner and Townsend

This programme is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Career support

Student support

At the University of Huddersfield, you'll find support networks and services to help you get ahead in your studies and social life. Whether you study at undergraduate or postgraduate level, you'll soon discover that you're never far away from our dedicated staff and resources to help you to navigate through your personal student journey. Find out more about all our support services.

Fees and Finance

Tuition Fees - full-time

The full-time undergraduate tuition fee for 2024/25 entry will be £9250.

Tuition fees will cover the cost of your study at the University as well as charges for registration, tuition, supervision and examinations. For more information about funding, fees and finance for UK students, including what your tuition fee covers, please see Fees and finance.

If you are an EU or international student coming to study at the University of Huddersfield, please visit the International Fees and Finance pages for full details of tuition fees and support available.

Please email the Student Finance Office or call 01484 472210 for more information about fees and finance.

Fees and Finance

Tuition Fees - full-time

The full-time undergraduate tuition fee for 2024/25 entry will be £9250.

Please email the Student Finance Office or call 01484 472210 for more information about fees and finance.

Important information

Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons

When you enrol as a student of the University, your study and time with us will be governed by our terms and conditions, Handbook of Regulations and associated policies. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these as you will be asked to agree to them when you join us as a student. You will find a guide to the key terms here, along with the Student Protection Plan.

Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons

Changes to a course you have applied for but are not yet enrolled on

If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment. We may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and we will discuss with you other suitable courses we can transfer your application to. If you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.

Changes to your course after you enrol as a student

Changes to option modules:

Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have an equivalent range of options to that advertised for the course. We will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.

Major changes:

We will only make major changes to non-optional modules on a course if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change is a change that substantially changes the outcomes, or a significant part of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum. For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators or a commissioning or accrediting body. We may also make changes to improve the course in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback or to ensure you are being taught current best practice. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment, or pandemics.

Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but may happen sooner in an emergency. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.

In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed in accordance with the student protection plan.

The Office for Students (OfS) is the principal regulator for the University.

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Start date

Duration

About the course

Reasons to study

Why study Quantity Surveying BSc(Hons)

Course detail

Design and Construction Practice

Construction Business and Law

Building Technology and Digital Communication

Collaborative Project Built Environment

Quantification and Cost Management

Building Technology and Digital Detailing

School of Art and Humanities Placement

Professional Practice

Advanced Measurement and Commercial Management

Procurement and Contract Administration

Major Project Dissertation

Entry requirements

Made in Huddersfield Showcase

Creative Excellence Competition

Industry placements

Newly accredited by RICS

The Barbara Hepworth Building

London Marathon

Inspired Collaboration

Our Facilities

Placements

Facilities

Student Visits

Student Visit

Student Visit to Liverpool

Student Visit

Student Visit

Student Visit

Student visit

Student visit

Your career

Career support

Student support

Fees and Finance

Fees and Finance

Important information

Changes to a course you have applied for but are not yet enrolled on

Changes to your course after you enrol as a student

Changes to option modules:

Major changes:

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