Quantity Surveying (Cost Management & Monitoring) is the core of our services and the foundation upon which the company was built. Our independent standing allows us to provide impartial and fair advice, delivering the appropriate solutions to protect our clients’ interests and optimize value on their investments.
By becoming fully and actively integrated at the early stages of the design process, we strive to bring an innovative approach to the all-important cost function, establishing its relative priority and instilling a cost discipline process within the design team to assist with design development leading to a final ‘value for money’ design solution which is on cost target.
We provide specialist advice on construction costs enabling the establishment of realistic budgets, design solutions and cost monitoring.
Design Stage – Cost Planning
Preliminary cost advice to establish project viability and a robust baseline
Approximate Estimating and cost planning to proactively manage construction costs
Optimizing cost performance at every stage using our extensive benchmarking data
Identifying potential risks and ways to mitigate them
Advice on tendering procedures and contractual arrangements
Preparation of tender documents (Preliminaries, Bill of Quantities, etc.)
Selection of contractors and obtaining tenders
Tender/Bid Evaluation & Reporting
Cost monitoring/management of variations (Change Orders/Variations Assessment)
Valuation of work in progress (Interim Valuations)