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APC Quantity Surveying Course

UK and MENA candidates

Our APC Quantity Surveying revision course consists of the modules and units listed below. It will provide you with approximately 25 hours of formal CPD. You may record reading the additional revision materials as informal CPD.

You can subscribe to the course as a whole or purchase modules separately (Click on the module title). You will be granted a 6 month license, renewable free of charge upon request.

Please contact us if you cannot see your selected optional competencies. It is likely to be listed under a different pathway and we can naturally grant you access upon request.

Some of the units are dedicated to contractor’s QS, others to candidates in the MENA region. You only need to complete those relevant to you.

A CPD certificate will be generated upon completion of each module.

Disclaimer: Please note that if you are working in a highly specialised field, you will need need to carry out private studying to supplement our training course.

Technical and Optional Competencies

Module 1 – Procurement and Tendering (2 hours)

  • Unit 1: Procurement Strategies
  • Unit 2: Tendering and Tender Analysis 

Module 2 – Contract Practice and Contract Administration (4 to 6 hours)

  • Unit 1: Subcontract / Contract Selection
  • Unit 2: Payment Provisions in JCT and NEC Contracts
  • Unit 3: Time related Provisions in JCT and NEC Contracts
  • Unit 4: Securities and Termination in JCT and NEC Contracts (Including Insurance + Corporate Recovery and Insolvency to level 2)
  • Unit 5: Payment Provisions in FIDIC Contracts
  • Unit 6: Time related Provisions in FIDIC Contracts
  • Unit 7: Securities and Termination in FIDIC Contracts (Including Insurance + Corporate Recovery and Insolvency to level 2)
  • Unit 8: Additional Notes – Subcontracts

Module 3 – Construction Technology (3 to 4 hours)

  • Unit 1: Civil Engineering Works / Substructure
  • Unit 2: Superstructure
  • Unit 3: Mechanical and Electrical Works
  • Unit 4: Infrastructure (Highways & drainage)

Module 4 – Commercial Management (1 hour)

Module 5 – Design Economics and Cost Planning (1.5 hour)

Module 6 – Project Finance (1 hour)

Module 7 – Quantification and Costing (1 hour)

Module 8 – Risk Management (40 minutes)

Mandatory Competencies

Module A – RICS Regulations (2.5 hours)

  • Unit 1: Ethics, Rules of Conduct and Professional Practice – Part 1 (1 hour)
  • Unit 2: Ethics, Rules of Conduct and Professional Practice – Part 2 (1 hour)
  • Unit 3: Client Care (30 minutes)

Module B – Business Skills (1 hour)

  • Unit 1: Business Planning 
  • Unit 2: Accounting Principles and Procedures – UK
  • Unit 3: Accounting Principles and Procedures – MENA

Module C – Health and Safety ( 1 hour 45 minutes)

  • Unit 1: Health and Safety (to level 3) – UK
  • Unit 2: Health and Safety (to level 3) – MENA

Module D – Conflict Avoidance, Management and Dispute Resolution Procedures ( 1 hour)

  • Unit 1 – Conflict Avoidance, Management and Dispute Resolution Procedures (to level 2) – UK
  • Unit 2 – Conflict Avoidance, Management and Dispute Resolution Procedures (to level 2) – MENA

Unit E – Sustainability (to level 2) (1 hour)

  • Unit 1: Sustainability (to level 2) – UK
  • Unit 2: Sustainability (to level 2) – MENA

Unit F – Data Management (40 minutes)

Module G – Inclusive Environments (to level 2) (40 minutes)

Module H – APC Soft Skills (1 hour)

  • Unit 1: Communication and Negotiation
  • Unit 2: Diversity, Inclusion and Teamworking