0 a person who is responsible for estimating the quantities of building materials needed for constructing something, and their probable cost. -- masseberegner
Instead of a great and imaginative architect, we have a quantity surveyor.
The report of the chartered quantity surveyor was overwhelmingly in favour of our opinion.
At the present moment every local authoriy has an architectural department, which generally employs a quantity surveyor to measure the contract when it is done.
One can think also of the quantity surveyor, the heating engineer, the structural engineer, and all the professional services.
The competent architect can save money provided the quantity surveyor will see that he puts in his bill quite properly.
These estimators were a kind of quantity surveyor, those who could estimate the cost of construction of a building at 1938 prices.
He is a quantity surveyor and a very successful business man.
It took on an extra quantity surveyor, two more building inspectors and a clerk.
