Services

The practice offers the full range of traditional quantity surveying and project cost management services as well as specialist client specific services.

The Partners of this Practice are personally responsible for management and quality control of the services provided. The services provided by the Practice are detailed below:-

STANDARD SERVICES

• Receiving commission/instruction from the client and advising on various courses of action and procedures to suit the particular requirements of the project.
• Financial design criteria advice.
• Cost Planning and cost advice.
• Preliminary and comprehensive estimates of construction cost for budget purposes.
• Cost optimisation to bring project costs to within the client's budgeted parameters.

DOCUMENTATION AND PROCUREMENT

• Preparing documents for procurement of construction contracts (e.g. Bills of Quantities, Lump Sum, Turnkey, Target Cost, etc.)
• Advising on the selection of suitable contractors and/or sub-contractors.
• Calling for tenders or negotiating the construction cost with a contractor on behalf of the Client
• Financially evaluating tenders, quotations, etc.

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

• Examining and verifying pricing of tender documents including preparing same for Incorporation into the signed contract.
• Preparing the procurement documentation for sub-contracts.
• Project cash flow forecasts.
• Attending site meetings at regular intervals to suit the nature and size of the project in order to keep abreast with contractual matters affecting costs.
• Attending consultant co-ordination meetings and management meetings
• Preparing monthly valuations for the issue of payment certificates.
• Preparing estimates of cost for proposed variations for client decision-making.
• Maintaining a running financial management statement and monitoring against the budget. Issuing project financial reports at regular intervals.
• Proceeding with the preparation of the final account.
• Adjudicating and resolving the financial and contractual aspects of claims between the client and the contractor (excluding services relating to mediation, arbitration and litigation).

FINAL ACCOUNT

• Determining and agreeing all variations and adjustments for incorporation into the final account.
• Agreeing and finalising all sub-contracts and adjusting against provisional sums and prime cost amounts.
• Concluding the final account including any necessary reconciliations and explanations against the financial budget.

SPECIAL SERVICES

• Project Financial Viability analysis
• Tenant requirements and fitout (evaluation of tenant requirements involving separate accounting for each tenant).
• Valuation of existing buildings for insurance, fire damages, rates assessments, expropriation, rental return, capital gains tax etc.
• Assistance with the resolution and settlement of financial disputes, auditing and adjudication of claims, etc.
• Expert witness service in respect of litigation on matters concerning construction costs.
• Targeted Procurement, incorporation of training provisions etc. in procurement documentation and monitoring of same.
• Contractor service including assistance with estimating builders quantities, pricing of tender documents, quotations, financial management of the contract, preparation of progress payment claims, evaluating and pricing of variations and preparing final accounts etc. on behalf of established contracts as well as emerging Contractors.
• Dilapidation reports and property maintenance schedules.
• Schedules of materials required for the project.
• Turnkey and Package Deal contracts.
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Value Management
• Client representation/partnering
• Due diligence reports and forensic audits
• Advice to banks and financial institutions on development proposals, valuations for release of progress payments etc.
• Our unique "Cost Check" service for small works/houses etc. to verify quotations received from contractors represent value
  for the proposed scope of work.
• Project Monitoring - carrying out a watching brief and financially monitoring the project on behalf of the client including commenting on estimates/quotes, viability studies, fee proposals, procurement procedures and documentation, financial reports, payment certificates,
  final accounts, etc. prepared by others.
• Facilities audit, asset registers verifying rentable areas for tenant