Professional Practice

Topics covered include Professional conduct and work of a quantity surveyor other than measurement. Duties responsibilities and inter-relationship of personnel involved in design and production process.  The evolution and need for rules of professional conduct and practice; practice procedures for quantity surveyors; educational requirements and professional training and liability; principles of good practice for quantity surveyors in both private and public sector; professional organizations in building and construction industry and their status in Rwanda; the independent role of a quantity surveyor.

Quantity surveying organization and practice: education & training, professional & statutory regulation of the quantity surveying, office and staffing organization, private practice, public sector work, contracting, partnerships, advertising, appointment of quantity surveyors & their fees, rules of professional conduct, professional negligence and insurance;

Non-conventional roles of a quantity surveyor: development appraisal, heavy & process engineering, contracting & construction management,  project management, facilities management, life cycle costing, technical auditing and cost accounting, valuations for insurance, arbitration, grants, capital allowance & tax advice, insolvency services, facilities management; IT consultancy, quality assurance consultancy; funding advice; fire loss assessment, schedules of dilapidations.