Top 10 Tips to Start Your Construction Career

Top 10 Tips to Start Your Construction Career

There’s no better way to find advice for becoming a Quantity Surveyor than to ask an existing professional in this area. So we spoke to Keith Keown who started his quantity surveying career some years ago. Keith got his degree in this subject and went on to work with various construction organisation in the UK and internationally.

Quantity Surveyors and Construction Professionals Coming back to the UK from Overseas

Quantity Surveyors and Construction Professionals Coming back to the UK from Overseas

UK market is buoyant and there are a number of opportunities for returning expatriates as well as for overseas nationals

UK Quantity Surveyors Are Building the Future

UK Quantity Surveyors Are Building the Future

Quantity Surveyor vacancies are increasing in London and the South East at present. Maxim Recruitment specialise in the recruitment of commercial staff in these geographical areas and are urgently

Does Hong Kong Need to Import Skilled Quantity Surveyors & Construction Workers?

Does Hong Kong Need to Import Skilled Quantity Surveyors & Construction Workers?

The Hong Kong Construction Industry needs Cost and Quantity Surveyor talent for current and future major infrastructure projects, Secretary for Development Bureau Paul Chan Mo-Po revealed earlier this

The UK Construction Industry On the Rise Again

The UK Construction Industry On the Rise Again

In Maxim Recruitment’s capacity of watching the buoyancy of the jobs market in UK construction and quantity surveying, we are always eager to report on the state of the UK economy

Will BIM Help or Hinder the Job of a Quantity Surveyor?

Will BIM Help or Hinder the Job of a Quantity Surveyor?

With more than 50% of construction firms using BIM (Building Information Modelling) in the UK will it live up to the UK government’s expectations? More importantly how will it affect the work of

The Importance of Quantity Surveyors in Infrastructure Projects: Hong Kong

The Importance of Quantity Surveyors in Infrastructure Projects: Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Construction Market is dominated with large Infrastructure projects, and this has generated a strong job market  for construction professionals looking for a new challenge. One of t

Land Reclamation in Hong Kong

Land Reclamation in Hong Kong

Land reclamation accounts for around 25% of Hong Kong Island.  The need to reclaim land in Hong Kong is largely due to the topography of the region being a mountainous one. Flat and urban areas

The Importance of Qualifications for Quantity Surveyors in the Middle East: A ‘Tick Box Culture’?

The Importance of Qualifications for Quantity Surveyors in the Middle East: A ‘Tick Box Culture’?

I have been recruiting construction professionals for companies in the Middle East for almost 6 years now, and qualifications have often been a big talking point when discussing job descriptions with

What Build Professionals Need to know about Hong Kong – part two

What Build Professionals Need to know about Hong Kong – part two

In this section, we take a look at the West Kowloon Cultural districts, and the opportunities for construction jobs there

Singapore: A country experiencing economic growth – pt 1

Singapore: A country experiencing economic growth – pt 1

A look at the construction industry in Singapore, that rarest of things at the moment – a country whose economy is experiencing growth

In Focus: A Guide to Abu Dhabi's Largest Construction Projects for expatriate Quantity Surveyors, Project Managers and other construction professionals

In Focus: A Guide to Abu Dhabi's Largest Construction Projects for expatriate Quantity Surveyors, Project Managers and other construction professionals

In our last article on Abu Dhabi we introduced its ever increasing construction activity and what this means for you as a professional within the construction industry. But so far all you have is our