SetH
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Registered: 15th Jul 01
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Expect his Pay cheque is good though?
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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My mate works longer hours than that gets paid £19k a year :Z
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charcoalgrill
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
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Originally posted by spencer88
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Originally posted by Xs
Sadly I am in construction, proper surveying none of this building sureveying nonsense. However its within private housing and I can't be arsed with all the contract law involved in working for one of the big boys so fancy something in oil and gas. Like arranging who goes on choppers and when, I believe that is a job.
I love the construction industry for this reason.
Surveyors hate building surveyors.
Building surveyors hate surveyors.
All surveyors hate architects and all architects hate surveyors.
What a wonderful profession 
I dont understand "proper surveying" a Building Surveyor is a proper surveyor... If you are referring to a general practice surveyor- who deals with leases?
Part of a Building Surveyors role could include project management. Which IMO has more money involved.
I have friends who call themselves surveyors- but when asked what the problem on a house is, they couldnt tell you.. its a joke!
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SetH
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Its like Cashiers or customer services people that work in a bank and tell people that they are a "Banker" 
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3CorsaMeal
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what do you do when Surveying a building
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SetH
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You walk around and pretend you know what your looking at, tick a few boxes then send an invoice for 15k to someone i think.
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Xs
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Registered: 12th Apr 02
Location: Lanarkshire
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Originally posted by SetH
You walk around and pretend you know what your looking at, tick a few boxes then send an invoice for 15k to someone i think.
Yes
And to answer the question above about proper surveying, a QS will deal with a project from the ground up including the design and building stages of a project, therefore more knowledge is needed. A building surveyor does what Seth says 
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3CorsaMeal
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i turn planning drawings into a timber frame then run off when all the problems arise
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spencer88
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Registered: 6th Oct 08
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quote:
Originally posted by Xs
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Originally posted by SetH
You walk around and pretend you know what your looking at, tick a few boxes then send an invoice for 15k to someone i think.
Yes
And to answer the question above about proper surveying, a QS will deal with a project from the ground up including the design and building stages of a project, therefore more knowledge is needed. A building surveyor does what Seth says
Really?
Our QS sends us a bill of quantities and then fucks off
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Mad Moe
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Registered: 14th Jun 01
Location: Northumberland
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I remember when studying for my QS degree one of our Lecturers saying that Building Surveyors were the ones who couldn't handle the QS degree
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Mad Moe
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Registered: 14th Jun 01
Location: Northumberland
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quote:
Originally posted by spencer88
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Originally posted by Xs
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Originally posted by SetH
You walk around and pretend you know what your looking at, tick a few boxes then send an invoice for 15k to someone i think.
Yes
And to answer the question above about proper surveying, a QS will deal with a project from the ground up including the design and building stages of a project, therefore more knowledge is needed. A building surveyor does what Seth says
Really?
Our QS sends us a bill of quantities and then fucks off
When I was at Carillion we had a QS who done nothing but take off quantities all day every, I'd be suicidal doing that job! However in most cases the QS and the Contracts Manager/Project Engineer would generally administer and manage the contract between them.
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Xs
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Registered: 12th Apr 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Mad Moe
When I was at Carillion we had a QS who done nothing but take off quantities all day every, I'd be suicidal doing that job!
When I started that was all I did, was fucking terrible. 
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charcoalgrill
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Bristol
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Originally posted by Mad Moe
I remember when studying for my QS degree one of our Lecturers saying that Building Surveyors were the ones who couldn't handle the QS degree
Get back to your brick counting!!
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