Apprentice Building Surveyor
TT BUILDING CONSULTANCY LTD
London (SE1 3ER)
Closes in 12 days (Monday 20 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 July 2026
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Summary
The Apprentice Building Surveyor will support the building surveying team in delivering professional services across a range of property types. The role combines practical, hands-on site experience with academic study, enabling the apprentice to develop the technical, and interpersonal skills to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS).
- Wage
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£23,000 a year
- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm, including one day a week at university.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 31 August 2026
- Duration
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6 years 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Site Inspections: Assist with site visits to inspect buildings for defects, damages, and identify repairs
- Report Writing: Assist in preparing written reports, including building surveys, condition surveys, and planned maintenance schedules.
- Contract Administration: Assist in managing construction/repair contracts, including preparing specifications, drawings, and tender documents.
- Project Management: Support project managers in monitoring building work, calculating costs, and ensuring quality assurance.
- Client Liaison: Liaise with clients, tenants, contractors, and other professionals, building professional relationships.
- Asset Management: Update records on asset management systems relating to compliance (e.g., asbestos, fire safety) and maintenance.
- Professional Development: Attend university (day release) and complete coursework to achieve the required professional qualification.
Where you'll work
Unit 2.1.2
The Leather Market, Weston Street
London
SE1 3ER
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
Training course
Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
- Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
- Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
- Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
- Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
- Land, property and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
- Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
- Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
- Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
- Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
Training schedule
Day release, once a week at LSBU's Southwark campus.
More training information
For more information about the BSc (Hons) Chartered Building Surveying Apprenticeship at LSBU:
https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/course-finder/chartered-apprenticeship-building-surveying
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- CAD software
- Proactive
Other requirements
All applicants must hold:
- A Level BBB or;
- BTEC National Diploma DDM or;
- Access to HE qualifications with 24 Distinctions 21 Merits or;
- Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 128 UCAS points
- Applicants must hold 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent (reformed GCSEs grade 4 or above)
About this employer
From its inception in the late 1800s, Thomas & Thomas has delivered innovative solutions. Over the decades since, we have maintained a consistently professional and high quality service, earning a reputation for excellence that has stood the test of time.
Ethos:
Sustained organic growth has allowed us to develop a wider range of services, whilst still maintaining the core values on which the company prides itself.
Today, whether offering full Project Management, Party Wall advice, Property Consultancy or Building Surveys, we constantly look to build on these foundations. We provide expert advice to our clients, specifically tailored to their individual needs. We focus on ensuring successful outcomes that support the business aspirations of the future.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
The future is yours and if you show the Skills, Knowledge and Experience, the want/desire to better yourself then you will climb the corporate ladder from Apprentice, Building Surveyor, Senior Building Surveyor, Associate Director and Director.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041083.
Apply now
Closes in 12 days (Monday 20 July 2026 at 11:59pm)