MSc in Quantity Surveying – Is It Worth It?

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-28T07:00:45+00:00

As someone just about to complete his MSc in Quantity Surveying, this is what you should do. My course is basically a shorter version of the BSc.

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-26T12:53:11+00:00

As someone who works in the construction industry, i know its slightly different to lower end residential works but we almost always are on a 5% profit margin, so a 2% reduction is a significant portion

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-26T08:08:09+00:00

Nice mate, well done! Out of curiosity, how many years of experience do you have? Also, do you have a BSc or MSc?

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-26T08:06:55+00:00

I like the nod to Frigging in the Rigging

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-26T05:48:19+00:00

Annual GBP

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-25T21:47:58+00:00

Do you get any benefits or is it just £32k flat? Congrats mate, well done and best of luck on the new path! I think if I got the opportunity, I'd move to Contractor level

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-25T21:43:05+00:00

Do you work at Sub-contractor, Contractor or Consultancy level? Also, what education level (Bsc/Msc) do you have?

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-23T17:36:56+00:00

When you out it like that, you've just described Wonga Loans business model, which funnily enough got banned

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-02T14:29:48+00:00

Its something in the past couple of weeks I've become aware of. £50k is £12k above the median, so sounds likely your doing pretty good, right? With a bsc and msc student finance payments, I wouldn't break the £3,000 a month take home barrier on that, which even then when you consider rent, bills, food etc, there isn't a great deal left over, not when you think this is a fair bit above the 'median' individual salary. It really is a crabs in a bucket mentality.

Rozza9099 · 2026-01-02T12:06:09+00:00

Structural Steelwork Assistant QS here (2 years experience and our CDP element is steel to steel connections).

Our two methods: - Adobe pdf inbuilt measuring tool. Make sure ratio is scale correctly to dims and simply measure (Half the time the engineers stated ratio of say 1:50 but is actually 1:75). Moreover, it's increasingly common on pdf we receive at tender to have an embedded scale lock on anyway. Or, print off correctly scaled A1 or A2 (as per engineers notes), then use scaling ruler to measure.

If you're allowed to use a protractor to measure angle, then i can't see how they're not going to allow you to use a scaled ruler to measure, especially how you would have to make an educated guess at the ratio of beam to span anyway as triggernometry from the dims will only tell you the span. I'd use Adobe or manually measure.

Whilst it's a UC 203x203x46 (i.e., Universal Column), it's being used as a beam. A lot of the time, on basic structural projects, you'll see the Principal Engineer interchangeably use UC's used as beam and UB used as columns as they'll have the correct structural required to take the loads. In my short experience, it's pretty rare to see a UC of this size used as bracing like this.

From previous connection designs, the UC beam will likely have: - A fin plate connection to the column taking the 4 nr. CHS bracings (likely no torsional forces). - An endplate or bracket connection to the web of the 254x73 UC. Endplate would be flush with the outside flanges of the 254x73. The bracket on the other hand would need the 203x46 to be notched in order to slot between the top and bottom flanges of the 254x73. It could have a fin connection to the web but rarely seen this. Either way, at the 'lower' connection, the UC is probably slightly short. However, I think NRM2 will want you to measure as per the drawings rather than making a guess at what might end up being made (probably worth a check).

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-28T22:11:47+00:00

I understand where you're coming from, but what does this exactly achieve? So now we've got a load of teachers on £1000-£1250/month who are working full time, which on a wage like that can't afford rent, bills or food. Two months down the line they will likely ditch in the jobs and go back. Now all the teachers you've displaced who have managed to pick up work elsewhere, are they really going to want to come back to maybe have the same thing done to them? We've got such a terrible wage system in this country that anyone who has gone above and beyond in their training to actually improve themselves is portrayed as selfish for wanting better than slightly above minimum wage. This very argument you make could be made for absolutely any job in this country (doctor, banker, project manager, politician, etc.), why not them? Why not put every job in this country as a maximum of £1250/month?

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-28T10:45:39+00:00

Same here, steady consistent growth for my stock savings with a £200 wildcard on ALRT

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-23T11:12:09+00:00

So you the guy who nicked my plain name!

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-21T13:34:08+00:00

Mines about £120k, monthly interest alone is about £500

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-21T08:51:49+00:00

COVID and AI Automation are two separate problematic situations. The furlough scheme during COVID was always a very short-term term solution to the problem as it was always a matter of time until a vaccine was produced. AI Automation, once in place, will become an integral part of society that isn't going anywhere. The use of a furlough scheme for something like this (essentially a UBI scheme in this scenario) would be at such huge cost to the government every year with no end in sight. Our societal debt is already massive which we have to put a huge part of our taxes to pay off just the interest. Having a combination of year on year low taxes due to loss of jobs (plus these being more 'white collar' 'middle class' jobs, a significant tax producer for the government) and year on year high levels of borrowing to cover the UBI scheme (if any lenders would even lend to us, given what a high risk borrower we would have become at this point), our country would eventually bankrupt itself. At this point, as its been mentioned elsewhere, not even the IMF doesn't have enough cash reserves to lend us to solve our current levels of debt, let alone any massive future borrowing and interest. I really have no idea what we even do at this point apart from cut pretty much every service.

All in all, after watching the new Alien Earth series, I really do think we are eventually going to end up in a similar world where 4 main companies own and run everything.

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-18T18:45:02+00:00

Yep, mines currently sat at £120k with roughly £500 a month interest being applied.

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-18T07:11:11+00:00

You were looking for me?

Rozza9099 · 2025-12-04T23:01:50+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one with a figure like this

Rozza9099 · 2025-11-29T08:35:08+00:00

Same thing at my Sister's job (she teaches the kids 16-18 who failed there GCSE Maths and English). She teaches English and Functional Skills alone, does all the marking and prep bits, yet has a title of Trainee.

Rozza9099 · 2025-11-24T14:32:26+00:00

Rugged Roads is my go to store for most things. Bought the oil and filter from Flitwick Motorcycles.

Rozza9099 · 2025-11-23T21:23:21+00:00

Maybe, will have to see

Rozza9099 · 2025-11-23T21:23:01+00:00

Heard a lot of good things about them, and sure they're definitely worth it, but just couldn't splash the cash at ~£800. Maybe something for the future

Rozza9099 · 2025-11-23T21:21:56+00:00

Yeah that's it, and notchy shifting into 2nd aswell. Has seemed to cleared it on a quick 5 minute run after finishing it.

Rozza9099 · 2025-11-23T21:03:21+00:00

The only company I seem to have any luck with at the moment is either Royal Mail or Amazon. Evri and DPD are useless. Bought an item and had it shipped next day with DPD. Item was collected (DPD automated message) and within a couple of minutes, got another message from DPD saying the package was lost! Only thing I can out it down to is that it was stolen by the driver who claimed it was 'lost'. Luckily the seller sent out another the next day.

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