Similarities / Differences between quantity surveyors and estate surveyors

Similarities between estate surveyors and quantity surveyors

The similarities between quantity surveyors and estate surveyors are as follows:
1. Both estate surveyor and quantity surveyors are management professional in field of environment studies.

2. Estate surveyors and other form of surveying and building related advices their client.

3. Both quantity survey and estate surveyors serves as project appraisal as the forecasting the future of proposed project.

4. Both estate surveyors and quantity surveyors look for their client or contractors working man office or on site, they are involve in project from the start, preparing estimates and cost of the project.

5. Estate surveyors and quantity surveyors are also referred to as construction cost consultant or commercial managers.

Differences between quantity surveyors and estate surveyor

1. Quantity surveyor seeks to manage and minimize the cost of project and enhance value for money to achieve the required standards and quality while estate surveyor tend to manage and value the interest of the project with a particular interest of the returned in the monetary value of the project.

2. The primary objectives of an estate surveyor is to carryout valuation of interest in landed properties for a particular purpose while that of the quantity surveyors cost management and provision of bill of quantity in the construction of a project.

3. Quantity surveyor manages all cost relating to buildings and civil engineering project from the initial calculation to the final figure. While the estate surveyor seek to value the period which it will take the project to receiving its initial capital investment in construction.