09/03/2022
This week's and although we aren't a company that provides educational services, we would like to provide a bit of inspiration from one of our team. Dan, he is one of our newer and younger members of the team, and here is how he got to being one of the Building Surveyors here at Haldons:
"So Where do I start. My career/study in construction start back in 2007 when I enrolled on a Foundation Degree in Built and Natural Environment at University of the West of England. I really enjoyed the Architectural module on the Foundation Degree, so I then enrolled on the Architecture and Environmental Engineering Degree Course at The University of The West of England. Having completed three of the four-year architectural course I decided to take a year out before completing my final year. In that year I found a job with Atkins, working out of their Oxford office as an architectural assistant/assistant building surveyor. I fell in love with building surveying and the fact as a building surveyor you have a lot more fingers in a lot more pies and get involved and exposed to a much wider range of elements within the construction industry. I then cancelled my final year of architecture and instead enrolled on a part-time Building Surveying Degree again at the University of the West of England where I graduated back in 2018. I am currently enrolled on the RICS APC programme and look to sit my APC in November this year.
I love the varied workload that Building Surveyors get to be involved in. Over the years I have worked on so many different types of projects: Undertaking house stock condition surveys all over the country, loft conversions, planning permissions, utility surveys and plotting, building regulations, design work, 3D modelling, measured surveys, party wall and dilapidations, just to name a few. The next step in my career is to become chartered and continue my development and increase my building surveying knowledge here at Haldons."
So for all of those thinking about starting training, or making a change, here is some inspiration - careers are not linear, but are a winding road of opportunities and changes.
