We provide estimates and cost advice during all stages of the development of a project for the correct decisions to be made with full awareness of their financial implications. Our sophisticated techniques, extensive cost data banks and an intimate knowledge of building and construction economics enable us to provide reliable cost advice.

Cost planning enables decisions on various design alternatives to be made with actual costs being constantly monitored against original budgets. Our knowledge and experience gives us the platform from which we can impose strict financial disciplines on your project.

Throughout the development we continuously update and revise our analysis so that costs are always controlled. The principle that the client is always looking for “value for money” is the area in which the benefits of employing our services can really be found.

We manage and control your financial investments and risks at each stage of the project by offering careful cost advice, cost planning and cost control as the project moves along, to ensure the project is completed within time and on budget.

We act in liaison with architects, consulting engineers and contractors to safeguard the client’s interest. They are independent experts who operate in a specialised area of the construction industry.

A building should meet the functional, dimensional and technological requirements for which it was designed, should be aesthetically pleasing and meet the cost limits of the client’s budget. We are able to provide pre-design feasibility studies involving technical and/or economic investigations thereby enabling a client to decide whether, and in what form, to proceed.

When you put your trust in us you are putting your trust in the hands of experienced and dedicated experts. We will ensure that your project is thoroughly analysed to ensure we come up with the most effective and efficient plan to move forward successfully.

Our duty is essentially one of cost control. We measure and value work in progress, determine the value of variations ordered by the architect or engineer and ensure that a fair and equitable settlement of the cost of the project is reached in accordance with the contract conditions.

In conjunction with the architect and other consultants we will ensure that the financial provisions of the contract are properly interpreted and applied. We ensure through a seamless, tried and tested process that costs are controlled. We provide ongoing, accurate, up to date reporting through our state-of-the-art reporting and software programmes.

The choice of an appropriate form of contract for any given project will depend on the nature of the project, the circumstances under which the work is to be carried out and the particular needs of the client.

In collaboration with architects, we are able to advise clients on the most advantageous procurement methods available, including: Contracts incorporating bills of quantities, provisional bills of quantities and schedules of rates. While bills of quantities are generally regarded as the best and the most economical method of obtaining a competitive price, the alternative methods and types of tender documentation available need to be carefully examined in consultation.

Our knowledge and expertise in the fields of costs and contracts equips us to prepare valuations for fire insurance, to advise in the settlement of insurance claims and to be called as expert witnesses or act as arbitrators in any court or arbitration on building disputes.