History of Quantity Suerveying

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• The quantity surveyor emerged in England at the begining og the nineteenth century , although the firm of Henry Cooper and Sons of Reading was established as early as 1785.
• Prior to the first recorded usage of the term "quantity surveyor" in 1859 , the term "measurer" , "custom surveyor " or "surveyor " were used .
• In those early days , the quantity surveyor acted for the master tradesmen , measuring the work after completion and frequently submitting partisan Final Accounts to the building owner .