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The quantity surveying profession faced many challenges, risks and threats to survive and sustain their services in construction or new sectors. Thus, this study is important in measuring the quantity surveying students’ awareness towards the roles and services that have been diversified from traditional to modern. The aim of this research is to determine the level of awareness among quantity surveying students towards the evolution of roles and services of quantity surveyor. Two objectives were formulated for this research which are: (1) to identify the types of evolution of quantity surveyor roles and services and (2) to determine the level of awareness among quantity surveying students towards the evolution of roles and services of quantity surveyor. The quantitative method was used to achieve the research objectives. Online questionnaires were distributed through Google forms to 235 targeted final year students of diploma and bachelor’s degree in quantity surveying programme at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Seri Iskandar Campus. From that number, a total 96 responds (41%) were collected. The data is gathered and analyzed by using the Statistical Package Software System (SPSS) Version 28. The findings revealed most of the respondent lack of awareness regarding the evolved roles and services of quantity surveyors such as in tax advice sector and banking sector. It is hope that the findings of this research could encourage the university’s academic content to be improve so that the awareness level among the quantity surveying students towards the non-traditional roles and services will be increased. In addition, it is recommended that the researchers to conduct study regarding on the students’ skills and competencies in venturing into traditional and non-traditional roles and services of quantity surveyors.
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To Cite this Article: Malek, S. N. F. A., Zamri, F. N. S., & Tharim, A. H. A. (2022). The Awareness Level among Quantity Surveying Students towards The Evolution of Quantity Surveyor’s Roles and Services. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(11), 1611 – 1620.
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