If you have finished or are presently pursuing a degree in construction management or quantity surveying, you might have observed that many of the subjects overlap.
This often raises queries like, “Are the main roles and responsibilities of a QS the same as that of a Project Manager?”
To gain insight on the subject, we sat down with Bryan Farrell, CDI’s Brisbane Senior Quantity Surveyor, about his experience and perspective.
Read the conversation below:
Q: I know this may be a pretty obvious question but a lot of people still seem to get confused. In your opinion what is the difference between a Quantity Surveyor and a Project Manager?
A: A Quantity Surveyor will obviously manage and provide input to all commercial and financial aspects of the project so you know, estimates, claim reviews, variation submission and reviews, cost forecasting for the project and margin forecasting. And the Project Manager kind of tries to knit the whole process together, especially in Australia where the project manager is essentially, on most projects, the client’s representative. So they’ll get all the stakeholders involved, the design consultants, the contractors and then they will hold all the meetings and they willl you know, monitor the programme and drive the programme, issue instructions to the contractor all that. So that’s typically the role of the Project Manager and the Quantity Surveyor.
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