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Professional Quantity Surveyor
The candidate quantity surveyor to professional quantity surveyor route, with mentored experience and preparation for competence assessment.
What we can and cannot say about this category
- Exact current eligibility, experience periods and assessment requirements must be validated against the council's current published documents before this pathway is used for candidate guidance.
Stages we support
Candidate
Building a record as you work, with a mentor.
Experienced applicant
Turning years of existing work into a structured account.
Registered, doing CPD
Keeping continuing development organised after registration.
Evidence template
What a candidate on this pathway typically needs to gather. This is Pr-ed's working template, not a council checklist.
- Mentored experience record
- Measurement and cost documents you produced
- Commercial correspondence showing your recommendations
- Referee details
Preparation themes
The themes your spoken accounts should eventually cover between them.
- Measurement and documentation standards
- Cost planning and control decisions
- Contractual and commercial judgement
- Reporting to clients honestly and clearly
- Professional conduct and confidentiality
Extra questions we ask on this pathway
Added after the nine core questions, tailored to this kind of work.
- How did you measure, price or control cost on this, and against what standard?
- What commercial recommendation did you make, and what did you base it on?
Mentor requirements
- Mentor registered as a professional quantity surveyor
Mentor coverage for this pathway is proposed and needs Pr-ed confirmation.