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1. RECORDED EXPERIENCE
- Candidates must demonstrate that they have received experience in approved areas in either the building industry or the engineering construction industry.
- Experience in the building industry includes engineering services within the building industry.
- For the purpose of the assessment, engineering construction is deemed to incorporate both civil engineering and mechanical/electrical engineering associated with the engineering construction industry. The broad definitions of different engineering disciplines are as follows:
Civil engineering
- Major earthworks
- Roads and bridges
- Railways
- Tunnelling and shaft-sinking
- Major sewerage and water treatment facilities
- Dams
- Harbours
- Treatment of industrial effluent
- Major civil construction works associated with power generation and other process plants and works of a like nature
Mechanical engineering
- Process and manufacturing plants including pipework, ductwork, insulation, heavy lifting gear, fire protection systems and the like.
- Production platforms and the like for the oil and gas industry
- Pipelines for fluid and gas transmission
- Materials handling installations
- Ductwork, plate work and associated plant for use in the chemical and mining industries
- Large scale heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installations
- Structural steelwork
- Building and civil engineering work in connection with the above
Electrical engineering
- Transmission cabling and supports
- Installations in connection with engineering construction
- Switchgear and transformers
- High voltage power transmission
- Medium and low-voltage power transmission
- Lighting and power installations
- Instrumentation
- Space heating
- Fire detection
- Communication installations building and civil engineering work in connection with the above
- Areas 2.1 to 2.4 (below) cover activities fundamental to quantity surveying and candidates will be expected to gain the larger proportion of their experience in these areas with a reasonable involvement in each.
- Area 2.5 (below) covers more specialised activities, some of which may not be undertaken by every type of organisation in which candidates are employed. While they will be expected to obtain some training and experience within this area, candidates will not be expected to cover more than a few sub-areas.
- When classifying training and experience for recording in diaries, candidates should attempt to equate their activities with the sub-areas listed. It is accepted that some operations may be classified under more than one heading and they should enter such periods to achieve the best balance. Assessors will exercise some flexibility when examining such entries.
- If candidates are unable to obtain sufficient experience in a particular area, it is acceptable to simulate such experience either by undertaking a task that has previously been undertaken within their office or by sitting in when more experienced surveyors are engaged in such tasks.
- Prior approval must be obtained from the Council for the recognition of any quantity surveying experience, which does not fall within the areas specified in paragraph 2 of this Annexure
- If candidates wish to change from the building industry to engineering construction or vice versa, they should inform the Council so that a new logbook may be issued. If the change accompanies a change in employment, this must also be notified in accordance with the Guide and Rules to the assessment of Professional Competence.
2. APPROVED AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
2.1 Cost advice and cost planning
- Preparing and using cost data
- Preparing estimates
- Undertaking financial feasibility and comparative studies
- Preparing and using detailed budgets and cost plans, cost checking during design development; compiling and using cost limits
- Preparing and applying cost-in-use studies; life cycle costing
- Preparing and interpreting turnover/cash flow projections and profit/loss forecasts
- Cost control and reporting during pre-contract period
2.2 Contract documentation
- Preparing bills of quantities for main or sub-contracts of supply including the measurement and description of work, and the drafting of preliminaries, preambles and contract conditions. The use of either manual or computer methods is acceptable.
- Preparing bills of measurement for final accounts if measured from drawings
- Preparing specifications and/or schedules of rates
- Contractual correspondence
2.3 Tendering and contractual arrangements
- Formulating or implementing procedures on tendering and contractual arrangements for main or sub-contracts or contracts of supply
- Advising on selection of tenders; evaluation of and reporting on tenders
- Preparing tenders including compilation of rates for work and preliminaries
2.4 Contract services
Specialisations
- Taxation allowances and grants
- Planning or programming of contract works
- Resource determination, scheduling and purchasing
- Procurement of plant and materials
- Production cost/quality control, time standards and operational methods
- Productivity methods and evaluation
- Project planning and project management
- Insurance
- Litigation and arbitration
- Insolvency and liquidation
- Planned preventative maintenance
- Schedules of dilapidation
- Technical audits
- Office management including resource allocation, fees and budgets
- Maintenance of buildings
- Research and development
Details of any other specialisation that candidates may wish to include must be submitted for prior approval to the Council for acceptance.
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