A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with building costs.
There are around 75,000 professional QSs working in the UK. In the United States, QSs are called cost engineers.
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“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labour which its possessor will take in exchange for it.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)