Our Managing Director has built a solid reputation during a period extending four decades, as emerging from the country’s construction and quantity surveying top brass. Mr. D. G. Jayarathna is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with a vast body of experience in quantity surveying, across a wide range of building and civil engineering works. We take much pride that our overall vision is closely directed by a professional of his caliber.

Upon completing the National Diploma in Technology (Civil Engineering) from what we currently recognize as the University of Moratuwa, he went on to commence his Quantity Surveying career in the year 1973. He did so as a Trainee Quantity Surveyor at the State Engineering Corporation (S.E.C.) of Sri Lanka and, thereafter, he quickly rose through the ranks due to his level of skill, to the role of Assistant Quantity Surveyor which he fulfilled until 1976.

He was already visionary in his thinking, and was of the view that he could further his level of expertise and understanding of quantity surveying, if he was to ply his trade in a foreign country. Therefore, he accepted a job in the Sultanate of Oman in 1976 as a Quantity Surveyor for a well-established international contracting firm — Taylor Woodrow Towel & Co. Ltd. This invaluable foreign exposure and experience allowed him to develop a keener understanding of quantity surveying.

After his two-year stint in the Sultanate of Oman, he returned to Sri Lanka and once more worked with the S.E.C. for a period of one year. Thereafter, he joined Development Consultants (Lanka) as their Senior Quantity Surveyor and remained with them for 8 immensely successful years. As Deveco was a leading private Chartered Architectural & Engineering Consultancy firm, numerous opportunities arose for Mr. D. G. Jayarathna to handle many large and prestigious contracts. The level of expertise he displayed prompted them to promote him to the position of Chief Quantity Surveyor of Deveco.

Mr. D. G. Jayarathna steadily gained repute as one of the most qualified and experienced quantity surveyors in Sri Lanka. His contributions and expertise were formally recognized with him gaining admittance into several quantity surveying regulatory bodies both at home and abroad.

Mr. D. G. Jayarathna retains control over the general administration of Cost Consultancy Services (Pvt) Ltd., and he has overseen the quantity surveying and contract administration aspects in many of the major projects we’ve handled since our inception in 1987.