SERVICES

What we do

Quantity Surveying

 

We offer a tailored service from initial cost planning and budget estimating through to tender documentation and final account negotiations. 

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Cost Estimating and Planning

We prepare detailed costings using preliminary architectural and engineering drawings. This acts as an early-stage cost check for both the client and the design team.

 

Our early-stage estimates are developed to suit the client’s budget and to take account of the evolving design. This ensures that any cost over-runs are identified at an early stage and can be addressed accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

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Procurement & Tender Documentation

It is essential that the optimum procurement route is chosen so that the client’s expectations are realised. Under traditional procurement this often requires a detailed bill of quantities. Our practice utilises industry leading software to prepare accurate bills of quantities and/or pricing schedules for private clients and main contractors.

The bill of quantities provides uniformity in the tender process and allows for elemental cost analysis of the project prior to commencement. If the tender returns are not aligned with client budgets the bill of quantities provides a mechanism to identify, cost, implement and agree changes prior to contract.

We view this stage of the process as critical and in our experience an accurate and comprehensive bill of quantities minimises client risk and provides maximum budgetary control from project inception through to completion.

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Tender

Reporting

The tender report is prepared following receipt of tender returns from a select list of contractors. It takes the form of a focused report which summarises tender returns and identifies any errors in pricing levels.

 

The tender report concludes with a recommendation to the client and design team and the identification of a preferred contractor.

 

 

 

 

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Construction Stage Cost Control

It is not unusual for design changes to occur during the construction phase of a project. We utilise our contractual knowledge and QS expertise to protect the client’s budget and to negotiate cost adjustments with the contractor on their behalf. We seek to identify offset savings where possible and if additional expenditure is required we issue regular cost reports to inform the client and design team.

 

We seek to maintain good relations with the contractor during the construction phase and to negotiate a final account that is fair to all parties.

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Value

Engineering

It is important that the optimum design and construction solutions are chosen for the client’s projects.

 

 

We use value engineering methods to eradicate potential value waste from developing design and to ensure that maximum value for money is achieved.

 

 

 

 

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Dispute Resolution

In the event of construction related financial disputes we can offer an independent third party perspective based on our review of relevant documentation. We have provided this service in the past to local authorities, private clients and building contractors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Specialist Contractor Services

Many procurement routes do not include a detailed bill of quantities and building contractors often require a BOQ to formulate their bid (to be priced by their in-house estimators). We work with an associate company based in Leeds, England to provide this service and in the last number of years we have prepared unpriced “Builders Bills” for many of the leading UK based building contractors. The projects we have worked on are many and varied and include hospitals, football stadiums, industrial units, car showrooms, apartment and mixed use schemes and prestigious projects such as refurbishment works at the houses of Parliament, Westminster.

We can also prepare detailed cost plans where design may not be sufficiently advanced for a full bill of quantities.