Quantity surveying
Applying measurement, cost planning, procurement, and commercial thinking to construction challenges.
↗ Quantity Surveying undergraduate · University of Moratuwa
Building insight.
Creating practical solutions.
Available for opportunitiesI bring together quantity surveying, construction experience, analytical thinking, and technology to solve real-world problems—within the built environment and beyond it.
Exploremy work ↓
01 / Approach
Grounded in construction. Curious beyond boundaries.
Quantity surveying gives me a foundation in cost, value, measurement, procurement, and project delivery. Alongside it, I explore automation, data, software systems, AI, and machine learning as additional ways to understand and solve practical problems across industries.
Construction practice
Building practical understanding through consultancy, site exposure, and real project environments.
↗Automation & systems
Turning repetitive processes and useful ideas into reliable digital workflows and applications.
↗Data, AI & ML
Using analysis and intelligent methods to reveal insights and support better decisions.
↗02 / Selected work
Knowledge in action.
A growing collection of construction experience, quantity surveying practice, digital systems, analysis, and experiments.
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Context → Thinking → OutcomeSystem development
↗Accounting App
A TypeScript and Next.js project currently under development, focused on building a practical accounting system.
OutcomeCase study coming soon
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Context → Thinking → OutcomeConstruction / QS
↗Quantity Surveying Practice
Practical work across consultancy and site environments, including measurement, quantity take-off, Bills of Quantities, cost tools, and construction processes.
OutcomeCase study coming soon
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Context → Thinking → OutcomeData / AI exploration
↗An intelligent experiment
A space for documenting data, automation, or machine-learning experiments with an honest explanation of the problem, method, and learning.
OutcomeCase study coming soon
03 / Experience
Learning in practice.
Professional exposure across consultancy and site-based quantity surveying.
Trainee Quantity Surveyor
Central Engineering Services (Pvt) Ltd — CESLMagistrate Courts Complex, Colombo 12Gained site-based experience in quantity surveying, construction processes, site management, and professional project practices on a major 15-storey public development.
Trainee Quantity Surveyor
Moonstone Cost ConsultantsYakkala, Sri LankaWorked with local and international projects, developing practical experience in quantity take-off, Bills of Quantities, CostX, PlanSwift, NRM2, POMI, and SLS 573.
04 / Academic foundation
2022
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BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying
University of Moratuwa
Department of Building Economics · Accredited by RICS, CICES, PAQS, AIQS and NZIQS
“Learning one discipline.
Exploring beyond it.”
Have a problem worth
solving?
I’m open to internships, collaborations, research, freelance projects, and conversations about useful ideas.
ahnafsalahy44@gmail.com ↗