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Quantity Surveying

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  • 22-08-2013 9:51pm
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    MCostelloe
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭


    Hi
    Just wondering about this course, and would you recommend this 4yr course


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    Dazzler88
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Dazzler88


    MCostelloe wrote: »
    Hi
    Just wondering about this course, and would you recommend this 4yr course

    Just heading into 3rd year of this course.Depends what your background is and what intersets you?


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    MCostelloe
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭MCostelloe


    I would like to be hands on, involved on the ground, so to speak, would not like to be behind a desk all the time


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    Dazzler88
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Dazzler88


    MCostelloe wrote: »
    I would like to be hands on, involved on the ground, so to speak, would not like to be behind a desk all the time

    Well there is 2 type of QS's.A PQS(Private Qs) and a CQS(Contractors QS).A PQS would spend 95% of their time behind a desk,a CQS would be out on site now and again.Have you worked in construction before?


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    MCostelloe
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭MCostelloe


    No just finished my leaving, have had an offer of QS and Construction Practice, I am torn because of QA being the degree offer, would don't think I would be happy behind a desk all day, I would like to further my studies in some way that I would spend time on sites :)


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    Dazzler88
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    MCostelloe wrote: »
    No just finished my leaving, have had an offer of QS and Construction Practice, I am torn because of QA being the degree offer, would don't think I would be happy behind a desk all day, I would like to further my studies in some way that I would spend time on sites :)

    Is that a level 7?Unfortunately there is very few sites anymore,you could apply for vacant places for a Construction Management degree but it is very hard to get work in Ireland as a Construction Manager,there is work in Ireland for QS's.

    If you were ever thinking of working abroad,there is work in Construction Management.


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    MCostelloe
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭MCostelloe


    Thanks for your advice, have taken it all on borad :)


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    Mynewstoday
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Mynewstoday


    MCostelloe wrote: »
    ?..would not like to be behind a desk all the time

    I am sorry, but that is the wrong advice to give to someone abut quantity surveying. It's utterly wrong.

    20 years ago, yes, but not today. I am a QS, and I sit at my desk Monday to Friday, 8:00-6:00 and I get out on site maybe every 6 weeks for a day.

    It is a good job, but it is a desk job.


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    Skidfingers
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭Skidfingers


    Hi,

    Just wondering what the salary is? Also, I've heard there is there other options out of it other than actual working with a construction company.

    Thanks and sorry about the bump


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    Dazzler88
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Dazzler88


    Skidfingers wrote: »
    Hi,

    Just wondering what the salary is? Also, I've heard there is there other options out of it other than actual working with a construction company.

    Thanks and sorry about the bump
    Graduate QS's in Ireland are getting anything from 25k a year to start off with.From just a QS degree you will be limited enough as to what you can do within a construction company,if you done an add on course for Project Management,you could work as a Project Manager.


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