Our Quantity Surveying Services are offered as a comprehensive package or on a stage by stage basis from stage 1 (initiation) to stage 6 (Project close out) as detailed below: Cost and Contract Advice

Stage 1

• Assisting in developing a clear project brief
• Attending project initiation meetings
• Advising on the procurement policy for the project
• Advising on other professional consultants and services required
• Defining the quantity surveyor’s scope of work and services
• Concluding the terms of the client/quantity surveyor professional services agreement with the client
• Advising on economic factors affecting the project
• Advising on appropriate financial design criteria
• Providing necessary information within the agreed scope of the project to the other professional consultants and for which the following deliverables are applicable

Stage 2

• Agreeing the documentation programme with the principal consultant and other professional consultants
• Attending design and consultants’ meetings
• Reviewing and evaluating design concepts and advising on viability in conjunction with the other professional consultants
• Receiving relevant data and cost estimates from the other professional consultants
• Preparing preliminary and elemental or equivalent estimates of construction cost
• Assisting the client in preparing a financial viability report
• Auditing space allocation against the initial brief
• Liaising, co-operating and providing necessary information to the client, principal consultant and other professional consultants and for which the following deliverables are applicable

Stage 3

• Reviewing the documentation programme with the principal consultant and other professional consultants
• Attending design and consultants’ meetings
• Reviewing and evaluating design and outline specifications and exercising cost control in conjunction with the other professional consultants
• Receiving relevant data and cost estimates from the other professional consultants
• Preparing detailed estimates of construction cost
• Assisting the client in reviewing the financial viability report
• Commenting on space and accommodation allowances and preparing an area schedule
• Liaising, co-operating and providing necessary information to the client, principal consultant and other professional consultants and for which the following deliverables are applicable

Stage 4

Preparing valuations for payment certificates to be issued by the principal agent Concluding final account(s) and for which the following deliverables are applicable:

• Valuations for payment certificates
• Final account(s)

Dispute Resolution

Disputes in the construction industry are inevitable. We have a proven track record, assisting public and private clients with the recovery of both time and money. Services include mediation and adjudication support, project recovery and resolution of problematic final accounts. Expert Witness Our array of expertise and reputation indicate that we are capable of rendering impartial advice to courts of law or tribunals concerning construction law disputes