Services

ESTABLISH CLIENTS REQUIREMENTS AND PROJECT DETAILS

We ESTABLISH the clients requirements and brief and outline how we can assist and ADVISE in terms of the following:

- Cost Planning, Management & Cost Control and other Quantity Surveying Services

– Procurement routes to realise the project

– Contract administration

– Project Management services

At the core of what we do, is the QUANTITY SURVEYING FUNCTION, which involves quantifying and costing elements, managing and controlling those costs to provide more COST CERTAINTY for the client. We provide a COMMERCIAL APPROACH to the whole project, as we understand that often a greater investment upfront, can provide much higher profit results and returns and can often provide REDUCED RISK IN TERMS OF COST, TIME AND QUALITY.

We LISTEN to what you need and want, but we also TELL you about WHAT YOU MAY NEED AND WANT that the you may not have considered or are perhaps not aware of.

QUANTITY SURVEYING

PRE–CONTRACT:

– Initial Budget Cost Advice

– Elemental Budget Cost Plans

– Detailed Elemental Cost Plans

– Preparation of Bills of Quantities or Schedule of Works to enable contractors to tender for project

– pricing/tender budget produced by FES cost consultants as a 'comparison bid' against contractors bids

– Tender Process Management

– Analysis of Tenders Returned

– Interview Contractors for Project

– Produce Tender Report and Recommendations

– Finalise and Agree Contract Award Price (on behalf of client) – draft up contract documents for signature

– Procurement Route Advice (traditional lump sum, cost plus, design and build, management contracts et cetera)

– Outline Suitable Forms of Contract – FES generally use the JCT suite of contracts. The JCT body/organisation has specialised in construction contract forms for nearly 100 years

– Insurance Advice

– Risk Management Advice

– other general quantity surveying and project management advice

POST–CONTRACT:

– Risks: identify risks on the project and any cost uncertainties

– Cash flow forecasts

– Valuations: carry out valuations of work carried out for contractor payment – Variations: value variations on the project and liaise/agree costs with employer and contractor

– Claims: assess any delays/loss and expense claims incurred by the employer or the contractor

– Progress: review progress on site regularly and issue any reports and recommendations necessary

– Intermittent Cost Reports

– Project Delivery: FES take a proactive attitude to keep project on programme and within budget

– Final Account: FES will compile and agree and issue final account for project

– Value Engineering And Cost Saving: FES can carry out cost saving and "added value" exercises requested or deemed necessary on the project

– Experience: FES use their extensive knowledge and professional experience within the cost consultancy and project management field of the building industry, to enable a successful project delivery

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

– Issue instructions to contractor on the project

– Confirm and endorse variations to the original contract

– Identify any defects in the work

– Issue certificate of practical completion

– Manage the "making good defects" process to ensure all defects completed in a timely manner to satisfactory quality

– Issue certificate once defects made good

– Certify payments using the quantity surveyors valuation

– Certify the final account prepared by the quantity surveyor

– Employ specialist consultants and contractors as necessary to ensure successful project delivery

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

– Advise on procurement routes

– Employ project team (architects, designers, specialist consultants et cetera)

– Progress and finalise planning and building regulation sign off

– Liaise with and progress Statutory Authority Works and employ and liaise with specialist consultants to finalise and sign off

– instruct precontract surveys (asbestos, building survey, structural, soil investigation et cetera)

– Decipher a project strategy for delivery of project (shopping list of actions/elements necessary to enable a successful project delivery)

– Establish Project Programme to Include 3 Phases:

1. Precontract (design, surveys, cost planning, planning permission and building regulations, bank funding/investor liaison et cetera)

2. Construction/build phase

3. Post construction phase (commissioning certificates, defects, fixtures and furnishings, handover, staff/client training, ongoing assistance and support and client care)

– We often embrace the CA duties (contract administration) under the project management or quantity surveying role when required on the project.

TURN-KEY SERVICES

Where clients do not require a traditional consultancy approach, FES services extend to offering clients a "one-stop shop" TURNKEY facility via another arm of the company. This facility allows the client to obtain all the services required to deliver the project through one company (i.e. the design, build and project management of the project), so that the client simply deals with one company only.

The client if required, can have little or no involvement if necessary, and is literally handed the keys at the end and he can in effect just "turn the key" and begin using finished building.