The optional third year in industry will allow you to develop your practical experience and may lead to a full-time position when you have completed your final year. Throughout the course you will integrate with students from different built environment courses which will allow you to appreciate the situations in which you are likely to find yourself when you are working in industry. This course teaches you these skills and allows you to develop yourself within this field. Contact the School of Engineering and the Built Environment for further details. You are also welcome to study individual 16-week modules as an Associate Student.
Access course pass Equivalent qualifications welcome.
Maturity and experience are taken into account. In today's construction industry the quantity surveyor has a wide range of responsibilities than ever before with the central aspect being to act as financial adviser and also offer specialists services in contractual matters. Quantity surveyors provide the link between the client, the architect, engineers and other consultants, by exercising a cost control function both at design stage and during the course of the contract. Here at the University of Wolverhampton courses in quantity surveying has been in operation since the mid 1960's with the constant aim of preparing students to meet the demand of the profession at the highest level. The traditional role of the quantity surveyor has been to provide a financial management service for construction projects, a cost control service for the contractor and a cost constancy for the designer and the client, extended recently to other specialised fields such as insurance, claims constancy, arbitration and now including a wide spectrum of project management functions.