Course overview
Ensure your business has the in-house expertise to manage construction costs, contracts and budgets effectively.
Apprentices gain hands-on experience in:
- monitoring and controlling project costs
- assisting with budgeting and forecasting
- supporting the selection and management of specialist contractors
- maintaining accurate financial records to aid project delivery and dispute resolution.
This programme is ideal for the homebuilding industry. With increasing demand for quality, sustainable housing, your apprentices work alongside senior quantity surveyors to ensure robust financial planning, effective cost control and full legal compliance across all stages of the homebuilding process. They offer the cost management and commercial insight needed to safeguard margins, reduce risk, and deliver successful residential schemes.
This apprenticeship teaches the knowledge, skills and behaviours typically required to achieve technician status or equivalent with the industry’s recognised professional bodies.
The End Point Assessment mirrors the rigorous review process for professional registration, ensuring your apprentices are prepared to meet industry benchmarks.
Five reasons your business needs a quantity surveying technician apprentice:
- Strengthen cost control: build capability to monitor and manage expenditure across home building and construction projects.
- Support commercial planning: develop talent that can assist with budgeting, valuation and income/expenditure tracking.
- Improve contract management: ensure effective contractor selection, and administration of contracts and payments.
- Reduce disputes: maintain accurate records to help resolve legal and contractual issues efficiently.
- Enhance project delivery: empower your team to deliver financially sound, well-managed projects that meet business goals.
Please note, we can only respond to enquiries from employers, or individuals with agreement from their employer to undertake an apprenticeship.
* Subject to University approval
Course details
Course structure
Core modules
Construction Practice and Management
You gain a holistic overview of the industry, including the scale and practices of the operations within construction companies, and considering the health and safety performance, and Building Information Modelling’s (BIM) potential influence in a range of construction processes.
You investigate and research the modern construction industry, both from the practical skills embedded within the industry through to its linkage with development onsite and the connection with construction management.
Introduction to Quantity Surveying
Gain a solid foundation in quantity surveying with a focus on residential construction and housing development. Explore the surveyor’s role throughout a project’s lifecycle – from planning and design to completion.
Learn to apply basic measurement techniques, produce cost estimates and financial documents, and use standard methods of measurement. Develop skills in Excel for budgeting, cash flow forecasting and cost control, while building the communication skills you need to work with clients and project teams.
By the end of the module, you will be able to support cost management on construction projects and apply core quantity surveying techniques with confidence.
Law and Regulatory Framework for Quantity Surveying
Build a practical understanding of construction contracts, legal frameworks and regulatory requirements, with a focus on housing development. Explore key contract types and apply them to real-world scenarios.
Learn about planning permissions, building regulations, Section 106 agreements and affordable housing compliance. Develop skills in contract administration, conflict avoidance and dispute resolution.
Through case studies and exercises, you manage contract variations, assess procurement routes, and understand risk allocation, Construction Design and Management regulations and the role of local authorities.
By the end of the module, you’ll be ready to support contract management and ensure legal compliance across residential construction projects.
You look at engineering materials in lab-based practical sessions. Fundamental relationships between processing, structure, properties and performance are explored to highlight factors which influence the suitability of materials for various engineering applications.
Principles of Civil Engineering Construction
You explore construction methods and components for building foundations. You extend your knowledge of house construction and larger substructure and superstructure construction activities including ground remediation, deep basements, retaining walls, multi-storey structures and bridges.
Professional Practice and Personal Development (DA)
Develop the core professional and digital skills needed for quantity surveying in the housing sector. Gain hands-on experience with tools like Microsoft Excel and building information modelling , and learn to produce clear, professional construction documentation.
Strengthen your communication and presentation skills for working with clients, housing associations and local authorities, while exploring topics such as ethics, health and safety, and professional standards in social and affordable housing.
Through practical tasks and reflection, you build a digital portfolio, apply data analysis techniques and plan your continuing professional development.
By the end of the module, you become confident using digital tools, communicating effectively and upholding professional standards in construction environments.
Modules offered may vary.
How you learn
Modules are delivered in a block-week at the beginning, with weekly online tutorials.
The Work-based Project module is also delivered in a block-week at the beginning, introducing the module and the project supervisors, and providing guided support to develop the project plan. Weekly online supervision meetings support the apprentice throughout the semester.
Each module is delivered over one semester.
How you are assessed
The apprentice is assessed using written and computer-based exams, presentations, and coursework including reports, reflective statements and independent/group project work.
Completion of the apprenticeship is also by end-point assessment (EPA) which looks at the knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs) developed to determine if the requirements of the standard have been met.
Please refer to the Construction Quantity Surveying Technician apprenticeship standard (ST0045) for further information on the KSBs that are assessed by each method and details of the EPA.
Our Disability Services team provide an inclusive and empowering learning environment and have specialist staff to support disabled students access any additional tailored resources needed. If you have a specific learning difficulty, mental health condition, autism, sensory impairment, chronic health condition or any other disability please contact a Disability Services as early as possible.
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements
To be accepted on to a degree apprenticeship course you must have support from your employer and meet the course entry requirements.
96 UCAS tariff points from any combination of level 3 qualifications.
Level 2 qualifications in Maths and English such as GCSE grade 4 or higher.
You can gain considerable knowledge from work, volunteering and life. Under recognition of prior learning (RPL) you may be awarded credit for this which can be credited towards the course you want to study.
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