Course Catalogue

To provide students with an international, national and local understanding and appreciation of the professional discipline of Quantity Surveying and the role it has within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction sector. Quantity surveying graduates are primarily concerned with providing advice on cost planning through the lifecycle of a building adopting a value engineering approaches to calculate the cost efficiency and value of the construction and design of a project. They need to have the core skills both in hard and soft areas such as using industry standard software/ informational modelling and leadership, collaboration in teamwork and communication skills. To provide fundamental knowledge in meeting the competency requirements of the RICS Quantity Surveying and Construction pathway in relation to commercial management, design economics and cost planning, construction technology and environmental services, procurement and tendering, project finance, quantification and costing, contract administration, insurance, programming and planning and risk management. To provide the fundamental knowledge in relation to the following themes as prescribed by the CIOB Education Framework: Construction Technology, Process Management, Sustainability, the Construction Environment, Health, Safety and Wellbeing, Ethics and Professionalism and the Dissertation/Research Project. To provide a well-balanced education which allows the students to achieve their full academic potential at first degree level and in doing so to facilitate the development of independent logical thought and judgement. To enable the students to develop their intellectual, critical, analytical and reflective thinking within an evidence and research-based framework associated with the role of a construction professional. To produce a basis for general professional experience and to encourage a consciousness of the professional, business and commercial environment considering all regulatory aspects and working in an inclusive environment. To provide the framework within which students can achieve the level of attainment, appropriate to their abilities in the context of the programme of study that provides recognition of that level. To develop skills to ensure that the graduate will operate within a sound Health and Safety framework as provided by the regulatory framework of the industry. To develop awareness of all aspects of sustainability to ensure that graduates operate responsibly within their chosen discipline and make positive choices in this context. To encourage students to develop self-awareness in personal development, inclusivity, employability skills and career planning. To facilitate the development of transferable and employability skills and an awareness of the need to plan, develop and record lifelong learning. To provide a well-balanced education which allows the students to achieve their full academic potential at first degree level and in doing so to facilitate the development of independent logical thought and judgement. For students undertaking a placement year, the aim is to provide students with an extended period of work experience at an approved partner that will complement their programme of study at LJMU. This will give the students the opportunity to develop professional skills relevant to their programme of study, as well as attitude and behaviours necessary for employment in a diverse and changing environment.

Teaching sessions include lectures and tutorials; workshop sessions in a classroom or PC-lab; practical property surveying sessions on site using the exemplar houses, or off-site on an organized site visit; participation in a group project; and field work on the optional residential field trip. Assessment methods include examinations; written essays and reports; oral presentations; preparation of posters; visual designs using adequate software; work placement reports (if applicable).