Quantity Surveying Makerere University

Overview

Graduates of this Quantity Surveying programme are expected to gain employment in both the private and public sector. The major input of the revised programme is to train quantity surveyors with sufficient skills for the public and private sectors: government ministries, local authorities, departments and parastatals, construction firms, and private consultancy firms offering quantity surveying services. The updated and diversified courses will cross‐pollinate existing departments within the Faculty of Technology.

The short and medium term objectives are to:

• Create indigenous capacity at Makerere University for training of quantity surveyors;

• Reduce the human resource gap in the quantity surveying profession;

• Incorporate modern methods of measurement, computerized billing, and alternative construction

• Improve the gender and generational imbalances in the profession.

The long-term objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation through training of cost management and control professionals for better and more rational use of resource within the construction industry in Uganda. Laboratory and computer training in the curriculum provide hand-on opportunities to apply knowledge to solving practical problems of engineering. There are also practical training components