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Construction surveying
About: Construction surveying is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 78 publications have been published within this topic receiving 722 citations.
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25 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, a realistic industrial simulation was used to teach knowledge and skills to undergraduate building surveying students, with the goal of delivering vocational higher education to prospective building surveyors.
Abstract: The paper relates to delivering vocational higher education to prospective building surveyors. Preparing students for the workplace requires inclusion of academic knowledge, workplace skills and practical vocational experience. This is reinforced by feedback from the four stakeholders to surveying education, learner, employer, education provider and professional institution. Successful delivery of learning to distinct vocational groups requires specific pedagogy. The paper analyses a realistic industrial simulation delivered to teach knowledge and skills to undergraduate building surveying students. Initial pedagogy was proposed by CEEBL, Centre for Excellence in Enquiry Based Learning. Work based skills requirements were taken from published work including leading building surveying academics and practitioners like Professor Mike Hoxley and Professor Malcolm Hollis. Data analysis is used to evolve future simulations. These become better suited to delivering appropriate learning, valid assessment and usable vocational skills, against academic, student focused and industrial criteria. An action research approach is utilised by the author to develop specialist pedagogy through analysis of outcome data and stakeholder feedback. Action research is undertaken through an approach using trial, evaluation and development. The paper concludes, simulation can be a valid tool for delivering teaching, learning, assessment and vocational skills training to surveying students and justifies further research.
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe teaching strategies used in a construction surveying course to improve students' performances, increase their interest in the subject and, ultimately, catalyze their learning, which is pursued by introducing several structured competitions and by exposing students to the powerful capabilities of state-of-the-art surveying instruments.
Abstract: This article describes teaching strategies used in a Construction Surveying course to improve students’ performances, increase their interest in the subject and, ultimately, catalyze their learning. These outcomes are pursued by introducing several structured competitions and by exposing students to the powerful capabilities of state-of-the-art surveying instruments. In the competitions, students collaborate within their assigned groups and are motivated by the possibility of obtaining passing grades. The collected and processed student feedback indicates that the proposed competition-based strategies are welcome by most students and the vast majority of them strongly agree that those competitions help them learn. The article also includes a strategy to expose undergraduate students to the capabilities and complex work-flows of two surveying instruments: an accurate global navigation satellite system device with real-timekinematic surveying capabilities, using the American (GPS) and Russian (GLONASS) constellation of satellites, and a long-range, laser-based, three-dimensional scanning system or terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR) instrument. Most of the students exposed to these devices quickly expressed their enthusiasm to further learn their operations and uses.
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of one such simulation carried out with the final-year undergraduate building surveying students at Sheffield Hallam University is presented, where a different form of building appraisal is outlined, where those engaged in the surveying are actually the clients, and the recipient of the report facilitates the survey's outcomes.
Abstract: This article looks at educating and training building appraisers of the future. It outlines a different form of building appraisal, where those engaged in the surveying are actually the clients, and the recipient of the report facilitates the survey's outcomes. By establishing the preference of three of the four stakeholders to surveying education for incorporation of vocational skills training, as well as academic learning, the author justifies the use of simulated surveying instructions to meet these dual requirements. The article focuses on a case study of one such simulation carried out with the final-year undergraduate Building Surveying students at Sheffield Hallam University. Pedagogy is proposed and justified using established enquiry-based learning techniques, and vocational instruction taken from published works on professional building surveying. Requirements of a professional surveyor are established from one of the stakeholders’, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, code of practice guidelines and by using feedback from clients obtained from an academic survey. Specialist legal advice with regard to surveyor negligence and contractual obligation is applied. Details of the property, the surveys undertaken and the methodology employed by the learners on site are described. Outcomes from the surveys are evaluated to form conclusions about whether this form of building appraisal successfully delivers both vocational and academic learning, and consequentially whether such surveys should become more commonplace.
01 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative research approach has been adopted to achieve this study's objective with close-ended questionnaires have been developed and administered to 136 professional building surveyors who are registered with the Building Surveying Division, Royal Institution of Surveyor Malaysia.
Abstract: Despite the rising demand for the building surveying services in the current market, the function of this profession is generally still misunderstood. Hence, this paper attempts to identify the hierarchy and potential roles that can be offered by building surveying graduates in order to provide the acceptable roles in the Malaysian construction industry. A quantitative research approach has been adopted to achieve this study’s objective with close-ended questionnaires have been developed and administered to 136 professional building surveyors who are registered with the Building Surveying Division, Royal Institution of Surveyor Malaysia. The retrieved data were analysed using the IBM SPSS Statistic for the respondents’ demographic data and the Rasch measurement model that applied the Winsteps version 3.70 software in order to analyse the data on reliability, item fit, and item measure for roles hierarchy. The result of the study shows that the roles hierarchy consisted of 29 essential tasks a graduate should deal with in order to thrive in the labour market after graduation. Correspondingly, building maintenance and conservation, building control administration, building inspection, risk management and building audit, building works and quality, and building insurance are the essential roles there are based on the hierarchy level that has been extracted by the six components. This study contributes to the body of knowledge in the Malaysia context, in particular for the general international building surveying community as it reveals a roles hierarchy that graduates are required to perform, and where it will provide awareness on the existence of the building surveying vocation among other the non-allied construction professionals in Malaysia.