A philosophy of quantity surveying

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dc.contributor.authorWalker, clyde
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-07T15:24:13Z
dc.date.issued1975-05
dc.descriptionThis inaugural lecture was presented to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Construction Economics and Management, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1975
dc.description.abstractA quantity surveyor has been defined as "a surveyor who estimates the quantities of the materials and labour required for any work" but this has become expanded and modified through the work in fact done by quantity surveyors. Quantity surveying principles are also applied to the work of other disciplines. For example, cost engineering, which at first sight has nothing to do with quantity surveying, has been described by The American Association of Cost Engineers (AACE) as: "that area of engineering principles where judgment and experience are utilized in the application of scientific principles and techniques to problems of cost estimating, cost control and business planning and management science."
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dc.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.identifier.citationWalker, Clyde. (1975). A philosophy of quantity surveying. [Inaugural lecture, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/43810
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/43810
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights©1975 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Construction Economics and Management
dc.subjectQuantity surveying
dc.subjectCost engineering
dc.subjectThe American Association of Cost Engineers (AACE)
dc.subjectQuantity surveying principles
dc.subjectQuantification
dc.subjectCollation
dc.subjectEvaluation
dc.subject.otherSDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities
dc.titleA philosophy of quantity surveying
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