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A building estimator or cost estimator is an individual that quantifies the materials, labor, and equipment needed to complete a construction project. Building cost estimating can concern diverse forms of construction from residential properties to hi-rise and civil works.
Gary Jeffress is a research professor of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. [ 1 ] He is the former director of the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science retiring from the position in 2018. [ 2 ]
The College of Engineering is located at the northern terminus of the University of Illinois occupying the Bardeen Quadrangle, the Beckman Quadrangle, and many nearby areas. Green Street almost perfectly divides the Engineering Campus from the rest of the University. So, engineers and the College of Engineering are often referred to as "North ...
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, one of 12 departments within the University of Illinois College of Engineering, has been in existence for more than 140 years, since the year the university was founded.
A quantity surveyor (QS) is a construction industry professional with expert knowledge on construction costs and contracts.Qualified professional quantity surveyors can be known as Chartered Surveyors (Members and Fellows of RICS) in the UK and Certified Quantity Surveyors (a designation of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors) in Australia and other countries.
Skills and knowledge of cost engineers are similar to those of quantity surveyors. In many industries, cost engineering is synonymous with project controls. As the title "engineer" has legal requirements in many jurisdictions (e.g. Canada, [3] Texas [not verified in body]), the cost engineering discipline is often renamed to project controls. [4]
In 1931, another quantity surveying practice was established by Owen Davis. Cambridge graduate and QS John Belfield joined Davis establishing a partnership, Davis & Belfield, in 1935. In 1944, they formed a new partnership with Bobbie Everest (a descendant of George Everest), becoming Davis, Belfield & Everest. [citation needed]
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors or CICES is a professional association in the field of civil engineering surveying, headquartered in the United Kingdom. CICES members consist mainly of commercial managers, quantity surveyors , and geospatial engineers working and studying within civil engineering surveying.