Skills and Services
Typical areas of expertise
The firm practise in accordance with the ethics and code of conduct of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors in terms of the Handbook and Regulation of the Association – August 1991, the PMI code of conduct as well as all other acts which regulate the professions.
Current Field of Specialities Include:
PPP PROJECTS
- Project Initiation
- Project coordination, Management and Partner Mobilisation
- Risk Management
- Financial Management
- Stakeholder Management
- All traditional quantity surveying works
- Exit Management
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
- International projects in the African Continent especially in East Africa and SADC region.
- Project feasibility studies to define viability, sustainability and bankability.
- Project scope definition and documentation with client participation and approvals.
- Implementation of International projects from bilateral agreement grants between governments.
- Implementation of National projects to special specified International standards and national building regulations.
- Transaction advisory services in client and financial management.
- Extensive coordination and administration of PPP project engagements and implementation.
- Legal advisory services and financial modelling.
- Project documentation for exit strategy and sustained maintenance and operations.
Quantity Surveying
Estimating on building and engineering projects from conception to final account.
PROJECT INITIATION
- Getting appointment or invitation from the client and advising on various courses of action and procedures to suit specific requirements of a project.
- Financial design criteria advice.
- Cost Planning and cost advice.
- Preliminary and comprehensive estimates of construction cost for budget purposes.
- Cost optimization to bring project costs to within the client’s budgeted amount.
DOCUMENTATION AND PROCUREMENT
- Preparing documents for procurement of construction contracts (e.g. Bills of Quantities, Lump Sum, Turnkey, etc.)
- Advising on the selection of suitable contractors and/or sub-contractors.
- Calling for tenders or negotiating the construction cost with a contractor on behalf of the Client.
- Financial evaluation of tenders, quotations, etc.
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
- Examining and verifying pricing of tender documents including preparing same for Incorporation into the signed contract.
- Preparing the procurement documentation for sub-contracts.
- Project cash flow forecasts.
- Attending site meetings at regular intervals to suit the nature and size of the project in order to keep track of contractual matters affecting costs.
- Attending consultant co-ordination meetings and management meetings.
- Preparing monthly valuations for the issue of payment certificates.
- Preparing estimates of cost for proposed variations for client decision-making.
- Maintaining a running financial management statement and monitoring against the budget.
- Issuing project financial reports at regular intervals.
- Proceeding with the preparation of the final account.
- Adjudicating and resolving the financial and contractual aspects of claims between the client and the contractor (excluding mediation, arbitration and litigation).
FINAL ACCOUNT
- Determining and agreeing all variations and adjustments for incorporation into the final account.
- Agreeing and finalising all sub-contracts and adjusting against provisional sums and prime cost amounts.
- Concluding the final account including any necessary reconciliations and explanations against the financial budget.
SPECIAL SERVICES
- Project Feasibility and Financial Viability analysis.
- Evaluation of tenant requirements involving separate accounting for each tenant.
- Valuation of existing buildings for insurance, fire damages, rates assessments, expropriation, rental return, capital gains tax etc.
- Assistance with the resolution and settlement of financial disputes, auditing and adjudication of claims for settlement of disputes.
- Expert witness service in respect of litigation on matters concerning construction costs.
- Targeted Procurement, incorporation of training provisions etc. in procurement documentation and monitoring of same.
- Contractor service such as estimating builders quantities, pricing of tender documents, quotations, financial management of the contract, preparation of progress payment claims, evaluating and pricing of variations and preparing final accounts for all contracting categories.
- Risk Management.
- Value Management.
- Client representation/partnering.
- Due diligence reports and forensic audits.
- Final accounts, etc. prepared by others.
- Facilities audit, asset registers verifying rent-able areas for tenant.
- Dilapidation reports and property maintenance schedules.
- Schedules of materials required for the project.
- Turnkey and Package Deal contracts.
- Project Management.
- Project Monitoring – carrying out a watching brief and financially monitoring the project on behalf of the client such as commenting on estimates/quotes, viability studies, fee proposals, procurement procedures and documentation, financial reports, payment certificates etc.