Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering)

In your first year you'll complete your common units laying the foundations for the remainder of your course. You'll explore the built environment and receive an introduction to construction management structures and residential construction urban development economics and law and integrated construction.

From there your studies will prepare you to provide professional advice to the construction industry on the financial and legal aspects of new constructions as well as the operation of existing buildings. You will learn complex construction techniques and methodologies business skills-including management issues contract administration and cost planning and controls. You will gain an in-depth understanding of commercial construction measurement estimating and services and heavy engineering.

In your final year you will explore advanced concepts of quantity surveying and cost engineering. You'll gain an understanding of construction legislation and risk management in the energy and resources sectors. Your studies will culminate in a major research project showcasing your acquired skills.

Throughout your studies you'll be applying what you learn to real-world projects. You'll also have access to site visits and industry speakers. You will complete 30 days of work experience through your work integrated learning unit.

You are required to undertake 30 days of approved quantity surveying and cost engineering work experience as part of your Work Integrated Learning core unit.

Quantity surveyors and cost engineers provide advice to the construction industry on the financial and legal aspects of new constructions and operation of existing buildings. They are involved in the construction process from the feasibility stage to post-completion and manage and administer construction costs and contracts for a variety of levels and types of construction. Tasks may include preparing cost plans and estimates bills of quantities tender appraisals valuations project audits property taxation and life cycle cost advice.

Quantity surveyors and cost engineers work closely with other professionals including architects financiers project managers engineers contractors suppliers solicitors and with all levels of government.

As a quantity surveyor and cost engineer you'll work predominantly on major building and construction projects as a consultant to the owner in both the public and private sectors. You may find employment with consulting firms; local state or federal government departments or authorities; and increasingly with building contractors financiers property developers project managers and universities.

Quantity surveying and cost engineering is a specialist discipline within the construction industry. To become a quantity surveyor and cost engineer apply for the Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Construction Management) QTAC code 412312. Your first year will provide you with important foundation units in construction. From second year you'll begin specialising in quantity surveying and cost engineering and graduate with the degree Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering).

The course maintains various accreditations with the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

• Contract administrator
• Estimator
• Manager
• Project manager
• Quantity surveyor

Your QUT Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering) degree consists of 384 credit points (32 units) arranged as follows:

a) 72 credit points (6 units) of urban development core units which includes a Professional Practice unit that requires completion of workplace learning

b) 216 credit points (18 units) of quantity surveying and cost engineering discipline units

c) 96 credit points of complementary studies comprising of either a second major (8 unit set) or two minors (4 unit set each).

These units will engage you in understanding urban development from a range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives expose you to the various outcomes available for pursuing studies in this field and introduce the fundamental basis for policy and practice. Later core units together with the discipline specific units will progress your learning development through experiential and enquiry based learning in collaborative environments.

These units give you discipline level knowledge skills and application competencies from introductory through intermediate culminating with advanced graduate level units. They focus on developing your knowledge practice and higher-order thinking to an advanced level.

Complementary studies may be taken as a second major of 96 credit points or two minors of 48 credit points each. Experiential minors in work integrated learning as well as student exchange are also available.

A second major provides the opportunity for you to undertake significant studies in a second Urban Development discipline such as Property Economics Urban and Regional Planning Architectural Studies Accountancy or Applied Economics and Finance. Second majors are also designed to provide diverse professional skills and knowledge beyond the traditional reaches of the built environment curriculum and can offer a range of study options in other fields.

Minors will allow you undertake studies in a companion discipline. They are designed to provide you with introductory to intermediate level knowlege and skills in areas complementary to your studies. You can choose a minor from other built environment disciplines. There are also minors designed to distinguish students in the employment marketplace with complementary non-discipline skills and competencies that you can choose from a range of inter- and intra-faculty disciplines.

The (UD01) Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) is located at Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Graduates may be eligible for discipline relevant masters and/or doctoral level programs.

Your QUT Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering) degree consists of 384 credit points (32 units) arranged as follows:

a) 72 credit points (6 units) of Urban Development Core units which includes a Professional Practice unit that requires completion of workplace learning.

b) 216 credit points (18 units) of Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering discipline units

c) 96 credit points of complementary studies comprising of either a Second Major (8 unit set) or two Minors (4 unit set each).

These units will engage you in understanding Urban Development from a range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives expose you to the various outcomes available for pursuing studies in this field and introduce the fundamental basis for policy and practice. Later core units together with the discipline specific units will progress your learning development through experiential and enquiry based learning in collaborative environments.

These units give you discipline level knowledge skills and application competencies from introductory through intermediate culminating with advanced graduate level units. They focus on developing your knowledge practice and higher-order thinking to an advanced level.

Complementary studies may be taken as a Second Major of 96 credit points or two Minors of 48 credit points each. Experiential minors in Work Integrated Learning as well as student exchange are also available.

A second major provides the opportunity for you to undertake significant studies in a second Urban Development discipline such as Property Economics Urban and Regional Planning Architectural Studies Accountancy or Applied Economics and Finance. Second majors are also designed to provide diverse professional skills and knowledge beyond the traditional reaches of the built environment curriculum and can offer a range of study options in other fields.

Minors will allow you undertake studies in a companion discipline. They are designed to provide you with introductory to intermediate level knowlege and skills in areas complementary to your studies. You can choose a minor from other built environment disciplines. There are also minors designed to distinguish students in the employment marketplace with complementary 'non-discipline' skills and competencies that you can choose from a range of inter- and intra-faculty disciplines.

The (UD01) Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) is located at Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Graduates may be eligible for discipline relevant Masters and/or Doctoral level programs.