REPORT 191 PROGRAMMES

SYLLABUS

QUANTITY SURVEYING

N6

SUBJECT CODE: 2050004

Implementation: January 2021

 Syllabus: Quantity Surveying N6
CONTENTS PAGE

1. General Aims 3

2. Specific Aims 3

3. Pre-requisite 3

4. Duration 3

5. Evaluation 3

6. Learning content 3

7. Promotional mark for students 3

8. Weighting modules 4

9. Module 1: Analysis of construction process 5

10. Module 2: Quantity surveying theory 5

11. Module 3: Measurements of

3.1 Plumbing and Drainage 6

3.2 Earthworks 7

3.3 Carpentry and joinery 7

3.4 Reinforcement, concrete and formwork 8

3.5 Pilling 9

12. Module 4: Quantities and costing 10

13. Didactic guidelines 10

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Syllabus: QUANTITY SURVEYING N6

1. General aims
 To create opportunities for lifelong learning in the Quantity Surveying profession
which will result in a meaningful educational experience enabling the student to
take up his/her place in the Quantity Surveying field.

2. Specific aims
 To equip the students with the necessary civil engineering knowledge and to
implement well defined civil engineering projects to the world.

3. Prerequisite
 A student must have passed at least the National Certificate N5 Engineering
with Quantity Surveying N5 as a subject.

4. Duration
 Full-time: 7.5 hours per week. This instructional offering may also be offered
part-time.

5. Evaluation
 Evaluation is conducted continuously by means of class test. An Internal
Continuous Assessment (ICASS) mark of at least 40% as well as a minimum
examination mark of 40% is required to pass the instructional offering. The
ICASS mark and the examination mark will be calculated together in a ratio of
40:60 to derive the promotion mark.

6. Learning content
 WEIGHTING: Remembering, creating, applying, analysing, evaluating and
evaluating of learning content are important aspects in determining a student’s
knowledge and understanding of the learning content of the instructional
offering.

Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating Creating

10 – 15 10 – 20 10 – 20 20 – 25 10– 15 10 – 15

7. Promotional mark for student

 ICASS 40%
 External Exam 60%

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Syllabus: Quantity Surveying N6

MODULES WEIGHTING

1. Construction processes.
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2. Consultations of Standards System of builders work and

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theory of Quantity surveying.

3. Measurement of
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3.1 Plumbing and Draining (structures)
3.2 Earthworks (structures)
3.3 Carpentry and joinery (structures)
3.4 Reinforcement , concrete and formwork (structures)
3.5 Pilling

Note: The examiner will choose anyone of these sub-modules for

assessment purpose.

4. Quantities and costing

25

TOTAL 100

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MODULE 1: Construction processes

General aims
Identify primary functions of processes involved in construction, theories of cost and method
of estimation and do advance calculations from basic drawings.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING CONTENT The student must be able to:

Standard system  Draw a checklist from a given drawing.

 Explain the uniform measuring technique of
measuring different trades in building.
Variation orders  Prepare in writing the difference in positive and
negative changes in a given measured structure.

Costing and Estimation  Determine the profit of construction project.

 Identify various standard of cost in estimating
department.
 Outline the cost structures.

MODULE 2: Consultations of Standard System of builders work and

theory of Quantity surveying

General aims

Identify primary functions of communications in construction industry, types of terminologies

to be used and do advanced measurement from basic drawings.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING CONTENT
The student must be able to:
1. General introduction  Explain the line of communications in quantity
surveying department.
 List the functions of all quantity surveying
documents.
 Illustrate the working up stage from a given
structure.
2. Terminologies of quantity  List and explain different types of bill of
surveying quantities and methods that generally adopted
in contracts
 Draw a labelled sketch of any typical part of
building.
 Describe the preamble and preliminary items
 Describe the final account.

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MODULE 3:

Sub-module 3.1: Measuring (Plumbing and Drainage)

General Aim
Identify primary functions of all technology involved in plumbing trade.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING CONTENT The student must be able to:

General introduction  List the basic principles and functions of cold

and hot pipes
 List the factors that should be considered
when selecting the quality of pipes used
underground.

Manhole  Calculate the centre line of the manhole.

 Calculate the brick wall heights.
 Calculate centreline of backfill for the
excavations of manhole pipes.

Drainage system  List and measure the types of pipes labelled in

the given system.
 Calculate the length and breadth of PVC pipes
given.
 Draw a schematic layout of undergrounds
PVC pipes.
 Measure the ventilation pipe.
 List the allowance of money that is given for
the trade.

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Sub-module 3.2: Measuring (Earthworks)

General Aim
Identify primary functions of measuring tools and how they are measured

LEARNING CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student must be able to:
General introduction  List the item that must be measured in a given
earthwork trade.

Basement  Calculate footing of given structure(size of footing

may vary)
 Calculate the internal girth of a basement
 Calculate brick wall on the basement.
 Calculate the external girth of basement
 Measure damp proof cost of the basement wall
 Measure by calculating the excavations of the
basement.

Sub-module 3.3: Measuring (Carpentry and Joinery)

General Aim
Identify the basic carpentry joints and identity basic calculate joinery trade.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING CONTENT
The student must be able to:
Calculation of carpentry  Show how carpentry and joinery is recorded in the
measurements Bill of quantity
 calculate brackets of the shelves and show their
position
 calculate the length of wall plate and record the
measurements in the dimension paper
 find the length of hips and valley in the means of
graph
 measure the brackets

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Sub-module 3.4: Measuring (Reinforcement, concrete and formwork)

General Aim
Identify the suitable formwork, calculate the amount of concrete and record the reinforcement
in the structure

LEARNING CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student must be able to:

Beams  Calculate the height of columns from

the top of the foundation footing.
 Calculate the length of the beams
 Explain why beams are important in
the concrete structure
 Calculate centrelines of beam
 Calculate the perimeter of ring beam.

Slab  Measure by means of calculations the

length and breadth of slab

 Define how the slab is measured and

show the unit of measurement.

Columns  List the formulas of a given type of

columns
 Define the standard rule of measuring
the formwork around columns
 Calculate the following:
a) Given shape of the slab
b) Concrete in columns
c) Formwork to slabs
d) Height of the column
e) Centreline of the column

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Sub-module 3.5: Measuring (Pilling)

General Aim

Gain the skills in relations to calculations of pilling

LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING CONTENT The student must be able to:
Round pile
 Calculate the following:

a)drill of given measurements

b)extra over drilling for cart away
c)extra over drilling under reaming for given sizes
at given angle
c)concrete in pile with a given diameter
d)enlarged foot from a given size of pile
e)formwork to round piles above ground level

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MODULE 4: Quantities and costing

General Aim

To enable students to estimate construction costs from plan

LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING CONTENT The student must be able to:

Construction costing  List typical expenses incurred by a small

contractor to build house
 List the estimations of material costs to build a
simple house
 Define productivity rate
 Explain the following terms with aid of
diagrams
a) Cost
b) Earnings
c) expenditure
d) measured work
e) Material invoices
f) Day works
g) Preliminaries
h) Office overheads
i) Variations.
Quantities  Explain the function of quantities in estimation
of plan.
. Label the arrowed parts from a plan give.

 Calculate the number of bricks from a plan.

 Calculate one brick walling.

 Draw the section of part of the building

 Calculate the area of given plan of the

structure

Didactic guidelines

1. Theoretical principles should be applied to practical real-life situations.

2. Discussion and evaluations should be done on the basis of real practical workshop
situations.
3. Although the art of effective listening could be formally introduced and refined in oral
work, it should be practised continually and become part of the student’s way of life.
4. Excursions, videos and internet could all contribute to an understanding and evaluation
of the civil engineering and construction.

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