Our services
Commercial (quantity surveying)
Claims and disputes
Planning and programming
We support our clients, working closely with their teams, to provide construction works cost data for development appraisals, whole life cycle costing and feasibility studies.
We measure and define construction elements, whilst adhering to industry methods of measurement and standards, quantifying construction works at various project stages.
We advise on costing through tendered rates, market quotations or dayworks producing pricing documents (i.e. bills of quantities
schedules of activities and schedules of rates).
We carry out the re-measurement quantification of contract sum through construction stages and at final account.
We support our client bid teams, whilst adhering to codes of practice and procedures, to produce tender documentation, procurement reports and tender evaluation.
We support our client estimating teams to produce estimates to inform life cycle costing and value engineering.
We support and advise our client commercial and operational teams with cost value reconciliations, valuations, cashflows, data collation, forecast cost-to-complete scenarios, liability statements, value engineering, profitability reports, subcontractor and supply chain management.
We support and advise our client commercial and finance teams on cost control, forecasting and reporting, managing contingencies, provisional sums, risks and opportunities, establishing reporting regimes, systems and protocols, implementing change control and project governance.
We advise our client design teams with buildability cost advice from inception to completion including logistics and process, costing design and construction solutions.
We support and advise our clients through drafting contract documentation, interpretating contract clauses, selecting appropriate contract forms, evaluating contract amendments and general contract provisions, for example:
Letters of intent
Insurance requirements
Retention
Bonds
Liquidated damages
Possession
Practical completion
Collateral warranties
Third party rights
Loss and expense entitlement
Conditions precedent
Change procedures
Payment procedures
Termination
We administer our client's contracts considering contractual duties, rights and obligations for main contract, subcontract and supply chain agreements.
We advise on contractual mechanisms and procedures, payment provisions, change management and control, completion and possession certifications, issuing notifications, certificates and compliant correspondence.
We provide extension of time, loss and expense entitlement assessments.
We identify our client's risk and opportunities by forecasting risk effect on cost and programme, analysing risk (quantitative and qualitative) and advising on risk mitigation, transfer and avoidance strategies through facilitating risk workshops, creating risk registers and calculating contingency allowances.
We provide strategic advice and practical support to develop principle position papers, outline and detail heads of claim on entitlement, quantum and time including construction contract advice, considering legal and statutory requirements and compiling evidence.
We advise and support our clients on post-insolvency project valuations, final accounts and estimates to complete and provide both commercial support for Insolvency Practitioners and site support completing projects where insolvency has occurred.
We support our clients and Insurance Practitioners to prepare claims, compile cost data and detail factual evidence whilst supporting insurance risk mitigation measures.
We advise our clients on how to avoid and mitigate conflict using avoidance charters, negotiation, mediation and conciliation.
We support and advise our clients through formal dispute proceedings including adjudication, arbitration and litigation.
We provide independent expert witness services to offer professional insights and expert testimony to help the parties understand complex issues, resolve disputes, and reach fair and equitable settlements.
We support our client design teams to prepare design and consent programmes, submission and approval process schedules through interrogating historical data, value engineering by scenario planning and drafting informative programme narratives.
We support our client bid teams by developing programmes adhering to codes of practice and procedures and incorporating scope of work and specifications with detailed work breakdown structures, cost breakdown structures, cost and resource loading and programme narratives.
We support our client planning and operational teams with contractually compliant programmes including progress updates and revisions, activity and sequence management, change control, extension of time submissions, target programmes, supply chain integration and detail programme narratives.
We advise and prepare delay analysis including:
Impact as-planned
As-planned versus as-built
Collapsed as-built
Time impact analysis (TIA)
Windows analysis
We advise and prepare disruption analysis including:
Baseline productivity
Earned value analysis (EVA)
Measured mile
We prepare formal reports outlining our determination of cause and affect, extension of time claims, change scenario planning and detail programme narratives.