Abstract:
The profession “Quantity Surveying” (QS) plays
a major role in the field of construction. Initially the work
scope of a traditional Quantity Surveyor was limited within
a considerable amount of work. Due to the fact of
evolution of the industry, within the last decades the work
scope of the Quantity Surveyor span across in the spheres
of various disciplines.
Sri-Lankan construction industry is aware of the
importance on multidisciplinary approach of the Quantity
Surveying profession. Yet, it’s questionable that the
industry is aware of the extent of which the disciplines
impact the success of a project through the QS profession.
This paper is focused on Accounting, Management, Law,
Information Technology and language disciplines of
modern Quantity Surveying.
The situation is addressed throughout a Quantitative
research approach by collecting the primary data from
Quantity Surveying professionals in the industry and few
interview sessions were adopted to get the experts’
opinions. The analysis of the primary data collected, was
done according to Relative Importance Index Analysis and
the average of the relative importance index was
calculated for each discipline to address the required
extent of each discipline for the Quantity Surveying
profession. According to the analysis, it was reviled that
the multidisciplinary approach of the QS is important. It
was found that the need of these disciplines are required
to perform the work scope of Quantity Surveying and it is
needed to take necessary precautions to implement and
maintain certain standards which covers the above
mentioned disciplines in order for local Quantity Surveyors
to be well equipped, for the challenges in facing the new
requirements of the construction world.
