The national cost engineer qualification examination is organized by the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Personnel. The exam is held once a year. The qualification examination for cost engineers adopts the methods of unified outline, unified proposition and unified organization. In principle, it is held once a year, and in principle, only test sites are set up in provincial capital cities. The examination adopts rolling management, which consists of four subjects and the rolling period is 4 years.
Units and departments engaged in the construction, design, construction, project cost consultation and project cost management of engineering construction activities must be equipped with professional and technical personnel with the qualification of cost engineers in the positions of valuation, evaluation, audit (nuclear), control and management.
The origin of the exam:
1998 1, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction issued the Notice of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction on Relevant Issues Concerning the Implementation of the Qualification Examination for Cost Engineers (No.Zi Zi Fa [1998]8), and the qualification examination for cost engineers was first implemented in China that year.
The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Construction are jointly responsible for the examination. The personnel department is responsible for examining and approving the examination syllabus, examination subjects and examination questions, and organizing or authorizing the implementation of various examinations. In conjunction with the Ministry of Construction, supervise, inspect, guide and determine the examination standards. The daily work is undertaken by the Standard and Quota Department of the Ministry of Construction, and the specific examination work is entrusted to the Personnel Testing Center of the Ministry of Personnel to organize and implement.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cost Engineer