TC65
Full-Time
January
£6500
None
Rochdale Road Campus
Face-to-face via Lectures Seminars Tutorials
HND Quantity Surveying for England (HTQ)
Pearson
The UK construction industry faces a continuing shortage of qualified quantity surveyors, as demand grows for professionals who can control costs, manage contracts, and ensure value for money on increasingly complex projects.
The new Pearson HND Quantity Surveying (HTQ) at the University campus Oldham is an industry-recognised Higher Technical Qualification, designed with employers to address the growing demand for cost and commercial management skills in construction. It combines technical knowledge with practical, real-world application, preparing students to manage budgets, contracts, and value across projects.
The programme offers direct progression into employment, career, higher apprenticeships, and/or further study at degree or postgraduate level.
Students should choose it to gain career-focused training that builds confidence, enhances employability, and opens pathways to professional recognition in one of the UK’s most vital built environment roles.
Group Project (Pearson-set)
Through this collaborative project-based unit, students will explore how to define roles in a collaborative team, recognising the skills (and ‘skills gaps’) of each member of the group. Together, students will work to develop a construction project based on their research and analysis, in response to the Pearson-set ‘theme’.
Content in this unit will typically include role identification and allocation, collaborative structures, human resources management, project management, procurement, tender documentation, information/data sharing, meetings, health and safety, project costing and Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Personal Professional Development
This unit provides a framework in which students have the opportunity to reflect on and contextualise the learning they gain from working in the industry. In coordination with tutors and their employers, students will define the scope, duration and content of their expected work-based learning experience. Throughout the period of their work-based learning experience, students will be expected to record and reflect on their own learning.
Contracts & Management
The overall aim of this unit is to give students a working knowledge of contracts so that they can manage a project team in accordance with the agreed terms and conditions of the contract. The principal person responsible for this is often the quantity surveyor and it is their responsibility to ensure compliance with the conditions of the contract.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to run and administer a project using the contract terms and conditions that have been agreed between a client and the main contractor. Students will also have the fundamental knowledge and skills to progress to a higher level of study.
Value Engineering & Cost Control
In this unit, students will explore the application of value engineering principles to scenarios or case studies in order to develop an understanding of how they are applied in a construction context. Students will also explore the various methods used to control costs. Through an understanding of cost control and value engineering, students will develop their knowledge and skills in order to manage and reconcile project costs.
Advanced Quantities for Complex Building Projects
Topics included within this unit are: estimating techniques, standard methods of measurement, taking-off dimensions, preparation of bills of quantities, estimating data collection and the assembly of an estimate for a work package.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be in a position to take-off quantities from drawn information and to prepare estimates for work packages. Students will also have the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to progress to a higher level of study.
Advanced Quantity Surveying Practice
The quantity surveyor interacts with many different roles in project teams. They may work alongside the architect or designer, costing project elements and specifying, to arrive at a budget for the client. The main contractor’s quantity surveyor interacts with the estimating and construction teams. They work to establish what the estimator has included in terms of prices from suppliers and subcontractors so that orders can be placed in advance of the work commencing.
In this unit, students will expand their knowledge and understanding of quantity surveying practice, with the emphasis on more complex projects and contract requirements.
Surveying for Conservation, Renovation & Refurbishment
Successful completion of this unit will give students a good understanding of the built environment and the methods of surveying it. The unit will be useful to any students working in the conservation, conversion and adaptation fields. However, those following a management or technician route will also benefit from the knowledge of historic methods of construction.
Advanced Materials
The aim of this unit is to enable students to make decisions based on the application of knowledge and concepts related to advanced materials. As ever more innovative structural solutions are sought, so the need for greater understanding of material performance and behaviour is required. This encapsulates an understanding of the relationship between material microstructure, composition and mechanical properties in use, and also a knowledge of ‘smart’ materials that are at the heart of innovative material technology development.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to make decisions based on an analytical approach to understanding material performance. They will also be able to make an appraisal of the feasibility of innovative and smart materials in construction projects.
Reports and Presentations
The course is designed for people who are seeking or are already in employment in the construction industry. Students will be supported to use their experiences in the workplace to inform discussions and learning and will also have the opportunity to directly apply their learning from the course to their work, adding immediate value to their employer.
Graduates often progress into roles such as Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Trainee Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Assistant, Cost Estimator, Contracts Administrator,
Procurement Officer, Project Coordinator, etc.
Many also choose to continue to postgraduate study in the areas of Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management, Construction Project Management, Contract Law and Construction Law, Cost Engineering and Value Management, Real Estate and Property Development, Sustainable Construction and Built Environment
GCSE English and Maths grades at C/4 or above, or equivalent Level 2 qualifications and a HNC in Quantity Surveying (HTQ)
Possibly some relevant experience in the construction and built environment industry