WHAT IS A QUANTITY SURVEYOR?

Quantity Surveyors are the financial consultants of the construction industry whose training and experience qualify us to advise on cost and contractual arrangements and to prepare contract documents.

We act in liaison with Architects, Consulting Engineers and Contractors to safeguard the client's interest. We are independant experts who operate in a specialised area of the construction industry.

The title "Quantity Surveyor" was reserved under the Quanitity Surveyors' Act of 1970 for exclusive use by those who had obtained the necessary qualifications and experience prescibed under the Act. In terms of it, such persons must register with the South African Council for Quantity Surveyors before they may offer their service as consultants to the public.

Quantity Surveyors are required to comply with a strict code of professional conduct which includes responsibility to their employers or clients and to their profession having full regard to the public interest, conducting themselves so as to uphold the dignity and reputation of the profession and discharging their duties to their employers and clients in an efficient and competent manner with complete fidelity and without undue delay.