Civil engineers are not under the sun all the time. They will be under the sun mainly when visiting the site. At other times they will be in the office (doing paper work/design work) or perhaps attending client meetings.

if study civil engineering, best place to work is with consulting engineer firm. no need work under sun coz that's not civil engineer duty. civil engineer duty is to design. perhaps u have to attend site meeting once a week for the sake of reporting. and some site walk with client once in a while. and definitely lady is not suitable to work at site in my opinion. site full of man including general worker / foreign worker. they will definitely view it in different way. of course there are still some girl work as architect / engineer at site.

if study civil engineering, best place to work is with consulting engineer firm. no need work under sun coz that's not civil engineer duty. civil engineer duty is to design. perhaps u have to attend site meeting once a week for the sake of reporting. and some site walk with client once in a while. and definitely lady is not suitable to work at site in my opinion. site full of man including general worker / foreign worker. they will definitely view it in different way. of course there are still some girl work as architect / engineer at site.

currently i dont work under the sun whole day. more in site office doing QS work and monitoring workers. but true long working hours and saturday work full day too. sunday off.

well all learn different thing. if u wanna be a chartered qs go for consulting qs firm. consulting qs see the thing in client perspective, help client administer contract. while main contractor is about bidding the accurate price (not too low end up losing money, not too high end up lose the tender).

can. no need pass any exam. both also have prospect. but if u study at civil engineering then better u in consulting engineer firm. QS more on contract & costing, engineer more on design.

qs firm will hire u still. just that not priority. in fact engineer can visualize thing better coz the engineer and seen the actual work and the sequence so got advantage here. and consulting qs don't need u to register in BQSM to work v them but surely u can't be partner / associate coz u can't be Sr (chartered QS)

for qs is almost not possible to join coz no design knowledge at all  maybe fundamental but not sufficient

this thread was a lot more helpful than what I've expected I'm currently a civil eng student undergoing training under contractor side. It was really nice to obtain hands-on experience in the site, and I'm thinking of moving forward into my career as a site project planning engineer.

can any sifus advise me how to go about this? I still have a second training next year which I may try to apply into consultant firms under design work (hopefully). But I'm still fairly interested in project planning.

I see, thanks for your reply! I'm afraid some consultant companies don't give much exposure about designing work to the new interns    I do want to learn as much as possible from our trainings. As far as I know from my batchmates, they're only helping in terms of paperwork. Any company recommendations? Maybe it's better for those who have already completed their studies > internship than 3rd year halfway > internship.
It depends on the project, mine was already 80% completed so I just help out in inspection of almost finished units/supervision of workers. I don't know about our actual job scopes but I do know that the civil engs in my company will handle the structural design in the site and they will be responsible if there's any structure failure. Why not design? It's pretty exciting  I'm also a female working at the site btw, most of them will treat you like their daughter/younger sister haha but you'll still have to be careful when you're alone in the site.

hey guys, u may ask me anything about construction industry and i'll try my best to answer all ur question.


Construction Industry is so complex and actually affect various party namely,

House buyer / Purchaser
Developer
Consultant (Architect, Engineer and etc)
Main Contractor
Subcontractor / Vendor / Supplier
Local Authority (DBKL, BOMBA, SYABAS, TNB, TELEKOM, POS, JKKP, IWK and etc.)

u can also ask me about construction law. I know a lot abt that too

hmm, i dont think so. but u can try applying for jobs in contractor firm as a qs, my previous company always take in female with civil background as qs.

Hi, if our sub-contractor caused delay to our site progress due to shortage of material supply, can we charge them LAD ?
its still within completion date.

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