Quantity Surveyor

Overview

Surveying is the set of techniques, skills and sciences used to determine positions and points on the earth’s surface and to measure the distances and angles between them. Surveyors play a key role in setting property boundaries, creating land maps, and supporting construction and legal processes such as real estate transactions.

This 40-hour course introduces you to the surveying profession from the ground up: what it is, how it developed, the instruments and software used in the field, and the core techniques surveyors rely on every day. You will also learn about coordinate systems, common sources of error, the different types of surveying, and how land is classified and documented.

What You Will Learn

• Understand what land surveying is and the role it plays in property, construction and legal processes
• Learn the history and evolution of the surveying profession
• Get familiar with common surveying instruments and computer software used in the field
• Learn core surveying techniques: distance measurement, dimension surveying, angle measurement, leveling, positioning, triangulation, point projection, and boundary marking
• Understand coordinate systems and common sources of error in the surveying process
• Identify the different types of surveying, including photogrammetry
• Understand the surveying profession, work licensing, and the role of the surveying department
• Work with surveyed and unsurveyed land, final and non-final measurement, land merging and subdivision, and land classification

Course Curriculum