Quantity surveying (QS) is a field within the construction where construction costs is estimated and managed. As a quantitative surveyor, your responsibilities include cost consulting, risk management and calculation, commercial management, asset capitalisation and project management.

Quantity surveyors manage the costs and budget of a building project from outset to completion. You’ll ensure the costs of the project do not exceed the budget. You’ll need a good working knowledge of the construction industry and excellent numeracy skills. 

Quantity surveying is a good career because it offers the ability to move around sectors, career progression, and excellent compensation. Moreover, quantity surveyors spend much of their time on the field monitoring construction sites or meeting with clients, architects, and engineers.

Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.

Microsoft Project is a software application sold by Microsoft that provides project management tools to manage projects. The program, which has many different versions, allows users to:

• Understand and control project schedules and finances.
• Communicate and present project information.
• Organize work and people to make sure that projects are completed on schedule.

Microsoft Project also provides functionality that allows the user to create reports that communicate the status and progress of a project.

Primavera P6 is an Oracle software product designed for project, program, and portfolio management. It is a powerful, easy to use solution for planning, managing and executing projects and programs. Primavera P6 can be used for all sizes of programs or projects from small companies to large-scale capital projects.

Primavera P6 can be used for all sizes of programs or projects from small companies to large-scale capital projects. In fact, it isn’t industry specific and it’s currently used in healthcare, banking, IT, construction, government and defense and is suitable for any company running a project or program.

Primavera P6 has two main versions, Primavera P6 PPM (commonly known as Primavera P6 Professional) and Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management).

AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application. AutoCAD is used in industry, by architects, project managers, engineers, graphic designers, city planners and other professionals. It is used for a number of applications like creating blueprints for buildings, bridges and computer chips to name a few.

AutoCAD is 2D and 3D computer aided drafting software application. It is commercial software.

CAD Engineers help design and develop 2D plans and 3D models necessary in product engineering. They can be employed in a wide range of industries such as mechanical, electrical, or chemical engineering.

CATIA software, is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), PLM and 3D, developed by the French company Dassault Systèmes.

Since it supports multiple stages of product development from conceptualization, design and engineering to manufacturing, it is considered a CAx-software and is sometimes referred to as a 3D Product Lifecycle Management software suite. Like most of its competition it facilitates collaborative engineering through an integrated cloud service and have support to be used across disciplines including surfacing & shape design, electrical, fluid and electronic systems design, mechanical engineering and systems engineering.

Many automotive companies use CATIA to varying degrees, including BMW, Porsche, Daimler Chrysler, Audi, Volkswagen, Bentley Motors Limited, Volvo, Fiat, Benteler AG, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Toyota, Ford, Scania, Hyundai, Škoda Auto, Tesla Motors, Proton, Tata motors and Mahindra & Mahindra Limited.

Creo is a family or suite of Computer-aided design (CAD) apps supporting product design for discrete manufacturers and is developed by PTC. The suite consists of apps, each delivering a distinct set of capabilities for a user role within product development.

Creo runs on Microsoft Windows and provides apps for 3D CAD parametric feature solid modeling, 3D direct modeling, 2D orthographic views, Finite Element Analysis and simulation, schematic design, technical illustrations, and viewing and visualization.

Creo is much more stable and far superior to SolidWorks when it comes to top-down design and surfacing. Creo would also be a better choice for any project consisting of large assemblies. SolidWorks is primarily used for smaller scale and simpler design projects.

For over 30 years, Creo has remained the standard product design and development software across a variety of industries for parametric modeling, simulation/analysis, and product documentation. Learning Creo is one way to give yourself an edge on the competition in almost any industry you decide to pursue.

NX, formerly known as “unigraphics”, is an advanced high-end CAD/CAM/CAE, which has been owned since 2007 by Siemens PLM Software. In 2000, Unigraphics purchased SDRC I-DEAS and began an effort to integrate aspects of both software packages into a single product which became Unigraphics NX or NX.

Unigraphics NX, also known as Siemens NX, is a software package for high-end computer-aided design/computer-aided engineering/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM/CAE) programs. The software is used for engineering analysis, design, and machining modules for manufacturing.

NX has overall more functionalities in modeling, has a perfect analysis module and a good drafting module. It is more user friendly. Also it has much better functionality/price ratio than CATIA.

SolidWorks is a solid modeling computer-aided design and computer-aided engineering computer program that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. While it is possible to run SolidWorks on MacOS, it is not supported by SolidWorks. SolidWorks is published by Dassault Systèms.

SOLIDWORKS is used to develop mechatronics systems from beginning to end. At the initial stage, the software is used for planning, visual ideation, modeling, feasibility assessment, prototyping, and project management. The software is then used for design and building of mechanical, electrical, and software elements.

The Design Engineer will coordinate and execute design tasks associated with the review of existing and development of new mold models; Proficiency in Solidworks is required.