My Services
I provide a wide range of construction and engineering services within the context of the 6 stages of the Quantity Surveying Profession, applicable to the project life cycle.
Inception
- Developing project briefs and attending project initiation meetings.
- Advising on procurement policy for the project.
- Defining the quantity surveyors’ scope of work and services and finalizing the client/quantity surveyor professional services agreement.
- Advising on economic factors affecting the project and on appropriate financial design criteria.
Concept and Feasibility
- Agreeing the documentation programme for the project.
- Reviewing and evaluating design concepts – value engineering.
- Preparing preliminary estimates of construction cost.
- Assisting in preparation of financial viability reports/feasibility studies.
Design Development
- Reviewing the documentation programme.
- Reviewing and evaluating design and outline specifications and exercising cost control.
- Preparing detailed estimates of construction cost.
- Reviewing the financial viability report / auditing of Cost Budget Estimates.
- Advising on escalation formulae and their implementation.
Documentation and Procurement
- Assisting in the formulation of the procurement strategy for contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers.
- Reviewing working drawings for compliance with the approved budget for construction cost and/or financial viability.
- Preparing documentation for both principal and subcontract procurement including the measurement and design of work, and the drafting of preliminaries, preambles, and contract conditions.
- Taking off quantities and preparing price determination documents, including abstracts, schedules, and pricing specialist construction elements in accordance with industry practice norms.
- Preparing schedules of quantities for engineering works (civils, structural, piping and electrical) and the various methods of measurement.
- Advising on selection of tenderers.
- Calling of tenders and/or negotiation of prices.
- Evaluating and reporting on tenders, including clarification meetings.
- Preparing contract documents.
- Advising on the different forms of construction contracts available for projects (JBCC, FIDIC, NEC, GCC).
- Understanding the roles, requirements and responsibilities of cost engineers and the use of cost elements (WBS).
- Preparation of health and safety requirements for building projects.
- Preparation and application of health and safety requirements per engineers’ requirements
Construction
- Attending site handover and regular site, technical and progress meetings.
- Preparing schedules of predicted cash flow.
- Cost control during progress of the works including advising on proposed variations and on alternative construction methods and sequencing.
- Reporting on cost variations and contractual issues.
- Adjudication and resolving financial claims by the contractor, subcontractors and/or suppliers.
- Preparing valuations for interim payment certificates and reconciliation statements.
- Measuring and recording site information for final account purposes.
Close Out
- Preparing and agreeing final account(s) for the works.
- Preparing valuations for final payment certificates and reconciliation.
- Preparing fee accounts based on appropriate fee scale and conditions of appointment.