NIQS Tasks Members On New Title

The General Secre
tary of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), Mr Femi Balogun, has said that the quantity surveying profession is all about “cost management” and, as such members ought to be addressed or known as cost managers, instead of quantity surveyors.
He said that the profession aimed at establishing what maximum benefit the client will derive from any given project, at optimal cost.
Balogun who stated this recently in his speech during the Quantity Surveyors week in Port Harcourt said that the law did not define who a quantity surveyor is, like it did to some other professions.
“The law did not define who a quantity surveyor is, like the architect. The law that established COREN says they can do anything including costing among others.
“But the NIQS defined the quantity surveying practice as the practice of the art of engineering science using in-dept knowledge of the detailed components of construction elements to determine and ascertain the costs of construction he stated.
The NIQS scribe therefore urged members of the profession to always ensure that everything about costing in the built environment is done by the quantity surveyor.
According to him, the only way to achieve that is to be fully ICT complaint because the world is moving faster.
Balogun also hinted that the issue of appellation will form the major agenda of the NIQS Annual General Meeting (AGM) coming up end of November this year, and urged members to send proposals.

Corlins Walter