Interesting

Some of the most important areas with regards to BIM and QS are:

1. interoperability,

2. data transference /exchange (import/export), and

3. data content and quality.

This needs to be addressed in HE and especially for QS students. They need to be reminded what they can/are required to do as future QS professionals, what BIM can and cannot do and how BIM can assist them in carrying out their professional roles more easily, more flawlessly and with less mistakes/errors. What some of QS professionals I have been talking to think is that BIM automates the whole work process of what they need to do which is not quite right. This way of thinking creates some false opposition against BIM as the QS professionals may think that with BIM in the play, they may lose their jobs. It also causes some false assumptions between QS students and young professionals that they do not need to learn QS as an independent profession because BIM will do the job for them regardless. This is the culture change the AEC industry (and QS educators/young or experienced professionals) needs to work on to make sure that when this culture change occurs, it occurs in the most correct way possible as intended and needed. More importantly this needs to be attended to, to avoid creating and widening a working culture gap between different generation of professionals not only in QS but also in the entire AEC industry.

Sure there is great impact of BIM on the role of quantity Suerveying in enhancing the accuracy of quantity, cost , time estimation

The QS role will evolve by looking where the trajectory of the innovation. QS roles should not just focused on producing quantities but also other wide range of other financial decisions affecting the client or contractor