Services

New roof inspections and certification as per ITC-SA regulations.

Services offered through associating companies:

Distressed roof repairs backed by industry-leading Timber Engineers.

Where the client has a limited budget, we can provide tailor-made freelance Quantity Surveying services to Main-Contractors, Sub-Contractors, and Private and Public sectors.

By making use of our freelance Quantity Surveying service you can get a service covering only selected areas of the QS scope of work. This will avoid the need to employ a full-time project Quantity Surveyor.

Consultations are also available for a nominal fee.

Services offered through associating companies:

Innovative Turn-key solutions for private and commercial property development & construction.

This has great cost-saving advantages for clients with tight budgets.

• Scrutinising gas installations in terms of manifold sizes, pipe index length, pipe sizing, cascading pressure regulators, etc…
• Optimising design, running calculations and comparing options to select the most feasible and affordable LPG installation following SANS 10087 – 1: 2013 regulations.
• Issuance of COC documentation for your installation when the property is to be sold.
• Services cover new or upgrades to existing installations.

We offer other services but are not limited to the below list:

• Financial feasibility studies
• Life cycle costings and design comparisons
• Cost control & reporting during the pre-contract period
• Compilation and issuing of fee accounts to clients and recons
• Compilation and issuing of disbursement accounts to clients and recons
• Compilation of project payment schedules and recons
• Contract administration
• Contractual correspondence
• Preparing bills of quantities for main and sub-contracts
• Preparing locational bills of quantities for main and sub-contracts
• Preparing schedules of rates
• Advising on alternative construction methods and cost engineering
• Surveying, measuring & recording site information
• Monitoring of proposed construction methods or sequences & reporting
• Quality Inspection
• Space audits as per SAPOA standards
• Due diligence advice
• Insurance claims
• Expert Witness / Construction Disputes
• Project Management
• Principal Agent
• Construction support management

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

• Agreeing the documentation programme with the principal consultant and other professional consultants
• Attending design and consultant meetings
• Reviewing and evaluating design concepts and advising on viability in conjunction with other professional consultants
• Receiving relevant data and cost estimates from 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

• 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 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

• Attending design and consultants’ meetings
• Assisting the principal consultant in the formulation of the procurement strategy for contractors, subcontractors and suppliers
• Reviewing working drawings for compliance with the approved budget of construction cost and/or financial viability
• Preparing tender documentation for both principal and subcontract procurement, including bills of quantities.
• Assisting the principal consultant with calling or tenders and/or negotiation of prices
• Assisting in the evaluation, reporting on and selecting of tenders
• Assisting with the preparation of contract documentation for signature

• Attending and chairing site handover meetings, including taking minutes
• Preparing schedules of predicted cash flow, as well as in loco cash flows
• Preparing proactive estimates for proposed variations for client decision-making
• Attending and chairing regular site, technical and progress meetings, including taking minutes
• Adjudicating and resolving financial claims for principal and subcontractors
• Assisting in the resolution of contractual claims for principal and subcontractors
• Establishing and maintaining a financial control system
• Preparing interim valuations for payment certificates for principal and subcontractors
• Preparing final accounts including re-measurement as required for the works on a progressive basis, for principal and subcontractors

• Preparing valuations for payment certificates for principal and subcontractors
• Concluding final accounts for principal and subcontractors, including escalation, compensatory and default interest calculations
• Preparing and issuing Practical, Works and Final certificates.