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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP53 · Level 5

Design and Quantity Surveying Technician

Target occupation: quantity surveyor, construction design technician.

Target occupation
quantity surveyor, construction design technician
Level
5 — Senior technician and supervisor
Duration
10 months
Taught hours
700 h
Credits
70

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Reading and producing drawings

    190 hours

    Working drawings, sections, details, computer-aided design tools

  2. Quantity surveying

    200 hours

    All-trades measurement, preliminary take-off, ratios, checking

  3. Estimating and quotations

    170 hours

    Unit rates, direct costs, coefficients, priced bills of quantities

  4. Tendering and contract documents

    100 hours

    Specifications, inviting tenders, analysing bids

  5. Professional conduct

    40 hours

    Precision, recording assumptions, working with the works supervisor

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Design and Quantity Surveying Technician — IHETC